ShiftEdit Moves to GoGrid Grid-Server Hosting


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! :)

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Trent
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April 5, 2008 at 10:55 pm

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

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Jonathan
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April 5, 2008 at 11:37 pm

@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.

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Trent
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April 6, 2008 at 6:45 am

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.

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Trent
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May 8, 2008 at 3:37 pm

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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We’re going to do WWDC08…with*OUT* crashing…probably
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May 26, 2008 at 9:29 pm

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