(MT) have launched (or at least, I can see it) their new GPU monitoring tool today. It’s been mentioned on one or two other sites, and seeing as I’d blogged about them before I thought I’d mention it again.
It’s a fantastic tool; way in advance of anything they had before, and has convinced me that I’ll be staying with them as much host for the future. Regardless of the billing implications for GPU calculations, the tool gives you a way of seeing which pages are the most intensive within your hosting environment. So, for example, Gary’s site (Menori) is generating the most load. I’ll be installing wp-cache for him at some point in the not too distant future. Don’t worry Gary, it’s a mostly painless process. Mostly…
I’d still like to see/know a couple of things: the first is the option to buy an extra allocation of GPUs. (MT) have told me they’re not planning this, but I think it could be handy. That said, it’s possible that you’d end up running lazy code instead of optimising, which is always good practice. The second thing is SQL resource usage; although I’m not entirely sure that this is factored in to the GPU calculation right now, I’d still love to be able to see how efficient (or inefficient) my databases were performing.
So good job (MT)! I’ve seen some positive comments about this from around the web, so hopefully it will dispel some, or all, of the negativity which is surrounding the dreaded GPU statistic.
Mostly painless? Mostly? Ooh dear… nevermind. Menori’s popularity has took a dip of late, probably due to the fact that I haven’t posted much recently that is worth reading!