I recently switched my sites to Media Temple and I think for the most part it’s been a pretty successful experience.  All four of my main sites (brandonquintana.com, brandonquintanaconsulting.com, lightenment.com, and webdevtwopointzero.com) have all been transfered and after some tweaking and fine tuning I think they are running pretty well.

Media Temple offers a great hosting package which allows you to host up to 100 sites on one account.  My sites are relatively small so I think the allocated bandwidth of 1TB a month will be more than enough for me.  On top of the typical PHP/MySQL setup, other nice features include SFTP connectivity and the ability to run Subversion.  Their hosting control panel is laid out well and easy to use.  Tech support issues are resolved in a timely manner.  As of right now, I’m a happy customer.

If you are looking for a hosting provider, Media Temple is worth a shot and if you are interested in having me host your site, I would be more than happy to work some arrangements with you.

For those of you using MySQL databases, Neal Parikh has a page on his site with common MySQL database commands. Although its isn’t as comprehensive as lets say the MySQL manual, it does give quite a bit of information that I would need on an everyday basis. The list covers most of the commands I think developers would need to incorporate into a website so give it a look.

For those of you with high traffic sites or would like to add some redundancy to your MySQL database, clustering is a very good starting point. That is assuming that you have about 4 or 5 machines that you can spare. Howto Forge has a great tutorial on setting this up on 4 machines using MySQL 5 Cluster. The setup requires two storage nodes and one management node and two nodes for load balancing. The example utilizes 4 machines by loading the cluster management server onto one of the load balancing machines. Read the rest of this entry »

MySQL plans to release technical details of its upcoming storage engine and administration tools. The codename for this database engine is Falcon expected to be completed later this year. A user conference will take place this coming week detailing specifics regarding the new engine. Read the rest of this entry »

Solid Information Technology will create the open-source storage engine designed for transactional applications reported by ZDNet as well as CNET News.com. Read the rest of this entry »