moving to media temple
Posted on 1st August 2007 by TaggyIts been a wonderful day for me :-) .I finally moved to a new host and the experience has been wonderful.It took less than an hour for the domain to propogate and i managed to add 2 domains my old theyagar.info to my theyagar.com in just two commands :-) . Thanks to wordpress .
And the scheme i chose to take was the Grid Server and its amazing .I will list down the statistics
- 100 Gb disk space
- 1Tb bandwidth ( yeah terrabyte)
- ability to host 100 domains
- SSH access ( i love this so very much )
- Sexy Control Panel ( change from the cpanel)
- Brighter Lamp ,yeah you get to edit your php.ini and it has already helped me in doing two things .
- one click install with the latest opensource packages ( yeah i did this wordpress 2.2.1)
- Ruby on Rails ( yes i always wanted to try this and now i have a good chance a 64Mb grid and wait until you see some RoR here
- A cheap .com domain , theyagar.com costs me just 5$
And Thanks to two people
- Gabe from media temple
I posted about how my hosting was really in shambles and needed to get it right in my earlier blog posts
and the very next day i got a mail from Gabe<MT> who told me about this 15%discount from kirupa.com by entering the coupon kirupa05
- And Stammy
, i always loved his blog and his experices with MT were on his blog and that probably got me crazy about getting to media temple.Stammy’s is one of the best tech blogs i have been reading for sometime and for those who dont know about him .He is a student at Georgia tech university and former Y! intern ,one of the guys behind Yodel .
And yes ,i have ability to host 100 sites and 100Gb disk space. Mine doesnt gobble up diskspace or bandwidth so any not for profit groups looking for free hosting may be 200 MB space ssh access amd mysql/pgsql php . can mail me here : me@theyagar.com
Most preferably GLUG’s ,i know how difficult it can be to get to host somethingfor free with a good host for linux user groups,myown GLUG-T is generously hosted by Space-kerala .
and yes,since most of the hits to my .info were from google and i could not afford to lose all the crawled links :( so i hit upon a nice idea .Install the wp in new domain and get the permalinks redirect to work .
I reproduce the steps below
- enable SSH from your control panel ,and login to your shell by ssh
- Create an alternate domain which you previously had ,in my case it was theyagar.info .
- Once you created it,you must be able to see theyagar.info directory in your /domains/theyagar.info
- you need to do two things here ,to point theyagar.info to theyagar.com ,rather theyagar.info should server the same content as theyagar.com does .
cd ~/domains
rm -rf theyagar.info
ln -s theyagar.com theyagar.info
this creates the symbolic link and hence you get all your traffic to theyagar.info to serve content from theyagar.com
now for maintaing the old links,you will need a plugin PermLinks redirector .
Just configure it from options tab and make sure to check box
Redirect if hostname is notwww.theyagar.com. . it redirects the old posts in to the corresponding new entries :-)
[tags]mediatemple,hosting[/tags]
yay! congrats :D
yeah media temple looks awesome but i heard people running wordpress have some issues with the safemode turned on in php ? some plugins might not work i guess . You experienced any ?
yeah my firestats plugin jus doesnt work :( no idea why .
Hey Taggy! Glad to hear (via a blog search engine for ‘kirupa’) you switched to mt. They really do have people who are both extremely smart and friendly - a rare combination these days.
Cheers!
Kirupa :)
kiruba.com is another famous guy on the blog
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lolz..There are a hosting company in which it only takes 1 min for the domain to propogate.And you were saying 1 hours these is to much time.Anyway have a fun.
i know and i swear MT does it that fast ,its just that i was struck with a host where i had to wait one full day :( and hence 1 hour was so much fast !.and for the record MT offeres instant grid access ,i dont think any host offers that !
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