Starting the Media Temple Adventure

I recently purchased a Media Temple (dv) dedicated virtual server and have moved my blog over to it. So if you see this post, well you can access the new server! If not, you have no idea this post even exists. Reasons for the move from DreamHost:

• I plan on this blog becoming very popular, so I want to be able to easily scale up. Even the lowest (dv) has more resources than the shared server it was previously on.
• Future sites and services I make will require hosting of their own. Some of them don’t really need a full out server, so this will be an educational journey. I can learn the ropes so when I launch those services I have it all figured out.
• DreamHost has a sketchy promo bot on their home page, so when I refer people there is a chance they’ll get the coupon code that overrights my referring them. That doesn’t sit well with me.

I’ve been using Media Temple’s (gs) grid service hosting for some time, in a very small mannor. It works great and is only $20/month. I would have used that service for this blog, except that you can’t easily scale up from (gs) to (dv). Well it’s not hugely difficult, just not as easy as upgrading the (dv) or going to a (dpv) dedicated private virtual server. It also wouldn’t have allowed me to find out how much power the (dv) kicks out.

So I’m now paying $50/month to host my blog. Pretty cool eh? Kinda outrageous since I’m not making any money from it. But I’ve got a new design ordered by a pro who isn’t charging extra for an RSS feed like some other guy wanted. I also hope to monitize the blog a bit. But not in the lets put an ad everywhere possible or spam your readers kind of way.