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Aimlessly wandering from Rackspace Cloud Servers to Amazon AWS; a WordPress mu perspective
Cloud Computing lets you scale and pay only for computing resources you actually use like storage, bandwidth, server uptime and so on. You get no upfront costs (unlike VPS services) and a great level of service (unlike shared hosting) because you’re in control of the box. This is a nice new paradigm for developers.
I know of two big providers for cloud services: Amazon (AWS) and Rackspace (cloud servers/cloud files).
Why Rackspace Cloud Servers?
Well, you may have heard about their fanatical support: basically they’ll help you with pretty much anything. They’re helpful with noobs and ready to help on pretty much any hosting related topic.
rackspace cloud server – Wildcard DNS entry (subdomains) and google apps
I’ve associated a domain name to my rackspace cloud server and I’ve recently set up a standard Google apps account for it. The Google walk-through is pretty intuitive but the screen you’re shown during the process does not perfectly match with what you see in rackspace.
As you can see if you log into your rackspace panel, they differ a bit from this screenshot.
And here you can find your DNS settings (just log into your control panel).
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Migrating from MediaTemple (gs) to MediaTemple (dv) service
After just a couple of months of hosting with MediaTemple Grid Service (gs), I’ve decided to switch to their Dedicated Virtual (dv). Mainly because there’s Plesk; my clients need to have their control panel and I can be in control of every detail about the hosting.
It’s a whole new experience and I have to say that I got used to the (gs) control panel. In a way, I miss it. But Plesk, even if it’s not the latest version (8.6 vs 9.3) is powerful. Anyway I got SSH access too, just in case (you can get it in grid service too).
Media Temple – gs – Grid Service – Alcune considerazioni
Il costo del servizio di hosting è piuttosto alto su Media Temple e in questo periodo devo valutare bene se ne valga la pena o no. Al momento pendo per il sì e mi sento quasi pronto a trasferire tutti i siti dei miei clienti dal vecchio hosting provider alle macchine di (mt).
Trovare un hosting provider adatto non è cosa semplice