We’re done moving ShiftEdit to its new home on GoGrid. GoGrid’s a great new hosting company in beta. They are a great fit for us. Using their web-based interface, we’ve set-up completely virtualized servers running in a grid configuration. Think Amazon EC2, but a heck-of-a-lot easier for Windows Servers and with a load balancer 
As well as running redundant virtual servers, if we have a big live blog coming up *cough, Apple keynote, cough, cough* we can scale up quickly by popping in more servers as needed.
So don’t go DDoSing us just yet, but we are now running on a much stronger architecture that will grow as we do. Hurrah, for virtual servers! 
Jonathan,
I’m thinking about moving my websites over to goGrid.com.
Have you had any down time so far?
Any complaints about goGrid?
Thanks – Trent
@Trent: In 2 weeks I’ve been with GoGrid, I’ve had downtime 3 times on 2 of my servers. Luckily, each time only one of my load-balanced machines when down so the site stayed up, but it was definitely scary. For 4 hours of downtime I received 400 CPU-hour credits based on their SLA.
I talked to their support people (who are super friendly and knowledgeable) and they explained that they were hitting some hardware limit on the networks in their grid.
I guess the bottom-line is that they are definitely still Beta, and with lots of people signing up, they are not going to be as stable right now as a traditional colocation host. However, they are run by ServePath, a pretty big hosting company, so I hope they iron out the kinks soon.
They have a big Grid software release coming near the end of April which will unlock a lot of cool features too
So definitely try out their pay-as-you-go plan and see what they’re about. But if you need guaranteed uptime, you’ll probably want to wait until they are out of Beta.
Thanks for the feedback. I did signup for their pay as you go. It looks impressive. I will tread lightly for now as I run a web design / hosting company and cannot afford any downtime.
Sometime ago I looked at MOSSO hosting but they had way too many problems with their system. I think the grid is a great concept but I’m not confident that all the kinks have been worked out.
Hi Jonathan,
I just wanted to check back in and see how GoGrid is working out for you. Anymore downtime? Would you recommend moving production web applications to GoGrid at this point?
Thanks – Trent
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