[Ruby] MediaTemple GridServer Experiences?

[Jesse Proudman]

MTs grid was at first an interesting concept primarily because  
they're one of the first movers with the technology.  But once the  
technology that powered their systems was made public, it's  
uniqueness and excitement didn't hold as much water in our book.  If  
anything, from the rails perspective, EngineYard is a more  
interesting concept.  They've just unfortunately priced themselves  
out of the reach of smaller rails developers.  It's also been our  
experience that most Rails developers want more control over the  
actual box than a web GUI can give them.   Grid/Clustering is the  
wave of the future, particularly for rails apps, but I don't  
necessarily think the MT offering is quite ready for Rails prime-time  
yet.  Keep your eye on EngineYard and other companies that offer grid/ 
clustering options (We're launching one in early '07) designed  
specifically for rails apps.  That's where the future will lead.
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Jesse Proudman,  Blue Box Group, LLC




On Nov 30, 2006, at 5:13 PM, Tom Lianza wrote:

> In case everyone else didn't see it... this came out today:
> http://www.digg.com/software/The_Grid_is_Falling_The_Grid_is_Falling
>
> I also received an e-mail that they were giving me 2 free months of  
> service,
> but it seems pretty clear that a lot of people are upset, and some  
> feel
> cheated.  I feel like some degree of these sorts of problems are to be
> expected from a new service, but complaints that they've mislead  
> people by
> calling a cluster a "grid" have some validity.