Or “Why Media Temple isn’t good enough”.
We run a lot of database depended sites, this being purely one example, all our apps are likewise. Media Temple’s (gs) looked great in principle – that kind of load flexibility is what we need but their implementation of MYSQL is sub-par. If what we wanted to do was just to serve simple, HTML-based pages, their (gs) would be fine. I guess if we were to cache absolutely everything, that’d be fine too.
But moving to “the cloud” shouldn’t have to involve such sacrifices. It’s telling that MT readily acknowledge the problems with their (gs), have been working on an alternative for a couple of years now but as yet haven’t been able to get it off the ground. I spent 5 days putting Media Temple through their paces as I assessed whether it’d be suitable (or even passable) for our needs. The answer was no.
So – the greater control of a VPS it is then…