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Re: Is MediaTemple slow for you ?

Daniel Markham — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 00:24:51 -0000

Can't believe I found this. I've been very frustrated with my MT speed for awhile now. It's, of course, difficult for the average user to judge where the bottleneck is most of the time – is it my ISP, my router or the server that serves up the site. But given that most times my roommates are not having any problems with their connection speeds while I am waiting ungodly amounts of time for my WordPress site to load up and now this post, I think it is safe to say who the culprit is.

It's unfortunate. MT saved my ass (actually, it was my bank account) once when I had a mysterious spike in database activity (still don't quite understand what happened there but they temporarily switched me to another MT service that prevented me from getting charged a lot of money). It's things like that that make me want to stay with them but I have to wonder: how many hits on my site have been lost because of slow load times? Mine is an incredibly low traffic site and I am on their GS service so no tuning for me, I believe (and honestly, I have never had to "tune" anything with a hosting service, that's why I am with a hosting service and don't have one in my bedroom). Obviously, they have been part of the solution (db spike) but are they part of the problem as well?

I may be changing hosts soon myself.

Re: Is MediaTemple slow for you ?

ehab — Fri, 22 May 2009 18:26:59 -0000

Hi Mitch

I have solved some of the issues I have been having. You need to look at their knowledge base and fine tune your server for your traffic needs.

http://kb.mediatemple.net/questions/771/Optimizin...

Re: Is MediaTemple slow for you ?

Mitch — Fri, 22 May 2009 16:27:13 -0000

I have the same problem. Wordpress on Mediatemple.net has seemed slow to me for two years, and I just found this thread here. Anybody find a solution?

Re: Is MediaTemple slow for you ?

helloguille — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 04:23:18 -0000

Very slow here as well, ridiculous load times.

They say that the MySQL container is overloaded (I really dont think so) but they don't provide any means of monitoring.

I'll be switching hosts soon.

I would be taking synhosting (they are really good for webhosting, been with them for a year) but I need VPS capabilities.

Guillermo

Re: Is MediaTemple slow for you ?

paul — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 15:14:58 -0000

It's very slow for me as well. Horrible load times using the gs. I've duplicated the backend for sites (wordpress and drupal) on different hosting services as an experiment and MT is significantly slower.

Re: Is MediaTemple slow for you ?

Frustrated Vbulletin User — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 01:39:12 -0000

I use their DV VPS Base for a vbulleting forum, and experience rediculous load times for less than 50 members and guests. It's much worse than my shared host Bluehost that actually did a decent job most of the time. I thought I was upgrading when I bought a VPS account, but from my experience this past month, it was a definite downgrade.

Re: Is MediaTemple slow for you ?

Tom Lyons — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 10:55:35 -0000

yeah, the same problem, that's what I'm doing right now researching it. Obviously the best use of my time. I'd prefer to find a solution than have to move hosts.

Re: Is MediaTemple slow for you ?

ken — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 15:56:03 -0000

Same problem here! Have you found a solution?

Re: Is MediaTemple slow for you ?

Matt Hill — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 13:43:04 -0000

Yeah, media Temple sure is slow -- improved a bit over the last few months, but it's really bad with Wordpress sites and generally, I've not been impressed.

We've been having a discussion on my blog if you're interested:
http://www.friskdesign.com/...