# Media Temple Hosting

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/media-temple-hosting/104879>\
**Category:** Radiant CMS\
**Created:** [May 23, 2007, 3:03pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/media-temple-hosting/104879 "2007-05-23T15:03:05Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 23, 2007, 3:03pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/media-temple-hosting/104879/1 "2007-05-23T15:03:05Z")

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Hi there,

Does anyone use the Media Temple Grid-Service? I’m about to host my  
radiant sate there and I’d like to know if I go with the 64MB (memory)  
container or the 256MB container?

Any tip?

Be Radinat!

Gabriel

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**Post date:** [May 23, 2007, 7:30pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/media-temple-hosting/104879/2 "2007-05-23T19:30:47Z")

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Gabriel L. wrote:

> Does anyone use the Media Temple Grid-Service? I’m about to host my  
> radiant sate there and I’d like to know if I go with the 64MB (memory)  
> container or the 256MB container?

I’m hosting a site on a 64mb container an have had major problems with  
it. Media temple has had major DNS problems internally over the past few  
months causing the internal services to completely stop functioning  
every once in a while. I wouldn’t recommend it. You would probably be  
better off with Slicehost.

–  
John L.  
[http://wiseheartdesign.com](http://wiseheartdesign.com)

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**Author:** ![poopsmith](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/a87d85/32.png) [@poopsmith](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/poopsmith)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2007, 4:55am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/media-temple-hosting/104879/3 "2007-05-24T04:55:49Z")

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On 5/23/07, John W. Long [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

Hello,

> Does anyone use the Media Temple Grid-Service? I’m about to host my
> 
> > radiant sate there and I’d like to know if I go with the 64MB (memory)  
> > container or the 256MB container?
> 
> I’m hosting a site on a 64mb container an have had major problems with  
> it. Media temple has had major DNS problems internally over the past few  
> months causing the internal services to completely stop functioning  
> every once in a while. I wouldn’t recommend it. You would probably be  
> better off with Slicehost.

Like John, I’m also hosting a site on a 64MB RoR container on Media  
Temple. Unlike him, I haven’t had any problems so far. With  
regards to what container you should choose, this is an printout of  
memory  
status on the site being hosted on Media Temple (done with ‘mtr  
status’):

applications:  
radiant:

status: running

memory:  
free: 30744  
total: 65536  
used: 34792

Given the limited information you’ve given us, Gabriel, I don’t see why  
the  
64MB container would not suffice for your needs provided that you’re  
only  
going to run a standard Radiant-install there. John also mentions  
Slicehost,  
which is a nice option if you have linux experience and/or the will to  
learn  
it as you go along.

I guess this is the point where I should mention that I’m looking for  
alternatives to Media Temple. But the reason I’m leaving them hasn’t  
anything to do with the RoR container.

–  
Sincerely,  
Bjorn Michelsen