This could be pretty sweet. TechCrunch highlighted MediaTemple’s new grid hosting plan. Basically instead of a small spot on a shared server, your data/sites are spread across a cluster of servers, allowing for your site to stay up even if there’s a heavy spike in traffic. Lord knows I wish I could get a heavy spike to this site, ha.

Anyhow, I had Media Temple for a while, and their customer service is excellent. If I end up with more than 5 or 10 sites to host, I’ll definitely move to this new feature for a trial run. Cool stuff. Wonder why it’s taken this long to get there?

Media Temple launched a major new hosting service this morning called Grid Server.
It matches low end shared hosting services in pricing ($20/month) but promises to grow along with the site, manage huge short term traffic spikes without a disruption in service or performance and avoid the “bad neighbor” problem common with shared hosting services. The basic $20 package includes 100 GB of storage, 1 TB of bandwidth and up to 100 individual sites.
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