Los Angeles hosting provider Media Temple continues to have trouble with its grid hosting service, now called Grid-Service. Many sites hosted on Media Temple’s grid were offline for 10 hours Friday, as a storage upgrade failed and the initial attempt to roll back to a stable configuration was unsuccessful. In an update on its company blog, Media Temple said that technicians from storage vendor BlueArc struggled to upgrade the provider’s disk storage system, and it took several hours to sort out the issues. Affected sites included
All Things Pakistan [1],
LifeChurch.tv [2] and
Heroes Revealed [3], among others.
Media Temple’s grid server offering debuted last year to a
rave review on TechCrunch [4], but experienced
significant downtime [5] in its early days, and more
performance issues [6] in early October of this year. The storage upgrade was part of a planned maintenance period for replacing electrical equipment at Media Temple’s EL-DC3 data center.
Rich Miller is the founder and editor-in-chief of Data Center Knowledge, and has been reporting on the data center sector since 2000. He has tracked the growing impact of high-density computing on the power and cooling of data centers, and the resulting push for improved energy efficiency in these facilities.
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URLs in this post:
[1] All Things Pakistan: http://pakistaniat.com/2007/12/01/atps-disappearance-no-we-were-not-blocked-or-hacked-not-yet/
[2] LifeChurch.tv: http://www.terrystorch.com/technology/down-time-on-websites/
[3] Heroes Revealed: http://www.heroesrevealed.com/stuff/what-happened-to-heroesrevealed/
[4] rave review on TechCrunch: http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/10/17/media-temple-crushes-shared-hosting/
[5] significant downtime: http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2006/11/29/outages_for_mediatemple_grid_hosting_service.html
[6] performance issues: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2007/Oct/05/lag_problems_for_media_temple_grid.html
[7] Rich Miller: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/author/richm/
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