Tag: MediaTemple

He’s Back, And Welcome A2!

[twocol_one][dropcap]I[/dropcap]’ve been rather quiet on the blog front for a couple of weeks now. I’ve been busy at work on my blog behind the scenes. Very busy indeed! But I’m now back to posting. Welcome A2! I’ve spent the past several weeks switching hosting companies: from MediaTemple to A2. My experience with MediaTemple between March and April was a nightmare… Continue reading

Optimization Behind the Scenes

Optimization [dropcap]B[/dropcap]een working like a madman on my blog—optimization under the hood. You know: part of the 10 year celebration has been sprucing things up a bit moving forward. Aside from the new look, which is temporary, here’s a list of some of the improvements: [unordered_list style=”star”] Page loads, in your browser, should be dramatically faster: between 4-7 seconds on… Continue reading

@MediaTemple Sadz

It has come to my attention that none of my server-side apps nor my blog can establish a database connection between around 4:30AM until 6:30AM. At least this has been a problem for the past several days. After repeated calls and an online chat, MediaTemple is aware of this issue and says they are “working to address it.” They have… Continue reading

@mediatemple Tweeted and Called

In my frustration, I mentioned in a blog post yesterday that I had a bad experience with @mediatemple, my web hosting provider. Mediatemple took the initiative to send me a tweet asking me to follow them so they could send me a DM. I did. They did, asking for my phone number. A supervisor, Miguel, called moments later. He personally… Continue reading

Horrid Service Experience @mediatemple

Venting… I host my blog @mediatemple. I have been generally satisfied with their service, but have had issues with the speed of their servers. Their telephone customer support has always been helpful… until today! I got an email yesterday telling me that the thumb.php file used in many WordPress themes had been exploited. Since my theme used this executable file,… Continue reading

Please, Resuscitate Me!

My blog, hosted at @Mediatemple, has been mostly dead for the past several days. Prior to that, for weeks and weeks it was so slow to respond, to even show up on the screen, I was convinced I had inadvertently done something horrible to it. I tried various solutions suggested for enhancing the performance of a WordPress blog. Nothing worked.… Continue reading

Thank Goodness for MediaTemple

My hosting service is MediaTemple. They have 24 hour phone support. They are awesome about helping the techno-illiterate, like me. When I was in Budapest and Prague last week, I published 61 pictures, and my blog publishing platform on the MovableType side went berserk! Every time I would attempt to do anything, MT would log me out. I had never… Continue reading