Tag Archives | hosting

When Server Load Goes to the Moon – Slicehost 'resize' Comes to the Rescue

By on January 15, 2010 in Technology

One of the member sites of The Buzz Media ran a story this morning that caused the load on the host server to go pas ’11′… waaaay way past ’11′ – to 257.89 to be exact according to ‘top’ (above). This host server was not in a load-balanced configuration when the rush happened, we weren’t [...]

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Amazon EC2 Performance Drops – Too Many Users

By on January 14, 2010 in Technology

Alan Williamson recently wrote about his companies long-term (multi-year) experience with Amazon EC2 and sums up the degrading experience as: Again, great services just as long as you don’t use them too much! Alan clarified that they started deploying on EC2 about 2 years ago, initially using the “SMALL” instances for most DB instances and [...]

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Slicehost Review – Excellent VPS Hosting Experience

By on January 10, 2010 in Technology

We are currently in the process of building out a farm of upgradeable virtual servers that will comprise Break it Down blog and the rest of The Buzz Media’s blog network. RimuHosting has been a top-tier host for 3 years now for our member sites, but the beauty of RimuHosting and it’s well-deserved reputation as having some [...]

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Powered by RimuHosting – Review of VPS and Dedicated Hosting

By on January 1, 2008 in Technology

RimuHosting has not paid us or encouraged this endorsement in any way (e.g. free stuff). UPDATE: It has been a few years since writing this and folks finding this in 2011 might be wondering “Is this even relevant?” and yes, all of this is still true. We are still with RimuHosting, I still regularly recommend [...]

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Moving Blog!

By on November 1, 2007 in Uncategorized

Please bear with us while we move our hosting from MediaTemple to RimuHosting. The pictures to the blog may be offline for about a day but then come back online later. Also we are aware of the rendering issues with IE, have no idea why they are occurring (site looks fine in Firefox, Opera, Safari, [...]

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Media Temple Performance Issues

By on October 2, 2007 in Technology

First off let me apologize for the shit performance for the last week or so. Traffic has been going through the roof. I’m currently hosted on Media Temple using a (gs) account. Even though my bandwidth, disk usage and “GPU” usage is 1/10th of its maximum allotment the site has become totally unresponsive with standard [...]

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