Comments for Enterprise Web Designer, Adam Lang http://www.adamlang.co.uk Notes and observations on web design Tue, 19 Jul 2011 21:47:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Comment on MediaTemple (gs): Slow. by Riley http://www.adamlang.co.uk/2011/05/mediatemple-gs-slow/comment-page-1/#comment-2591 Riley Tue, 19 Jul 2011 21:47:58 +0000 http://www.adamlang.co.uk/?p=55#comment-2591 I used mediatemple and followed the mediatemple PR guys comment and opened a few tickets. They gave canned responses and were completely unhelpful. They basically told me the problems were all with my websites and not on their end. Apparently vanilla wordpress installations with no addons and no content are too much for their servers to handle. They also threw in a few sales pitches about upgrading to their higher cost services. Looking for alternatives now. I used mediatemple and followed the mediatemple PR guys comment and opened a few tickets. They gave canned responses and were completely unhelpful. They basically told me the problems were all with my websites and not on their end. Apparently vanilla wordpress installations with no addons and no content are too much for their servers to handle. They also threw in a few sales pitches about upgrading to their higher cost services. Looking for alternatives now.

]]> Comment on MediaTemple (gs): Slow. by (mt) Matt L http://www.adamlang.co.uk/2011/05/mediatemple-gs-slow/comment-page-1/#comment-2189 (mt) Matt L Tue, 31 May 2011 18:47:07 +0000 http://www.adamlang.co.uk/?p=55#comment-2189 I'm sorry to hear about your experience. I'd be more than happy to take a look at things if you still have an account with us. If you could open up a support request with some of the issues you are experiencing, we can try to see why these things are happening. I’m sorry to hear about your experience. I’d be more than happy to take a look at things if you still have an account with us. If you could open up a support request with some of the issues you are experiencing, we can try to see why these things are happening.

]]> Comment on Web Directions @media Conference 2010, thoughts. by Lee Pilmore http://www.adamlang.co.uk/2010/06/web-directions-atmedia-conference-2010-thoughts/comment-page-1/#comment-16 Lee Pilmore Tue, 22 Jun 2010 09:40:30 +0000 http://www.adamlang.co.uk/?p=12#comment-16 The BIG million dollar question is can you "wriggle your toes" in them?!? The BIG million dollar question is can you “wriggle your toes” in them?!?

]]> Comment on Web Directions @media Conference 2010, thoughts. by admin http://www.adamlang.co.uk/2010/06/web-directions-atmedia-conference-2010-thoughts/comment-page-1/#comment-13 admin Mon, 21 Jun 2010 22:39:34 +0000 http://www.adamlang.co.uk/?p=12#comment-13 Hey Tom, Apologies for the errors - I was rushing down notes! Of course it was Apache I was referring to, not MySQL. Will make the corrections to the post now ;) Those shoes are awesome by the way. Adam Hey Tom,

Apologies for the errors – I was rushing down notes! Of course it was Apache I was referring to, not MySQL. Will make the corrections to the post now ;)

Those shoes are awesome by the way.

Adam

]]> Comment on Web Directions @media Conference 2010, thoughts. by Tom Hughes-Croucher http://www.adamlang.co.uk/2010/06/web-directions-atmedia-conference-2010-thoughts/comment-page-1/#comment-12 Tom Hughes-Croucher Mon, 21 Jun 2010 22:06:54 +0000 http://www.adamlang.co.uk/?p=12#comment-12 Hey Adam, I'm glad you liked my talk. Getting back to the UK was awesome, and it was good to meet a bunch of new people. A couple of corrections which I'm going to blame on my horrible Americanized accent. I've been in the USA for 2 years now not 5. If it was 5 I'd probably actually be an actual American by now ;-) Regarding Node.js it probably is faster than MySQL but most importantly it's a lot faster than Apache or IIS (whichever you use). So you can have a single Node.js server which handles hundreds or thousands of requests at the same time. That's something much harder to do on other systems. If you like the toe shoes they are called Vibram 5 fingers (http://www.vibramfivefingers.com) and they are the most comfortable shoes ever. Thanks for the write up! Tom Hey Adam,

I’m glad you liked my talk. Getting back to the UK was awesome, and it was good to meet a bunch of new people.

A couple of corrections which I’m going to blame on my horrible Americanized accent.

I’ve been in the USA for 2 years now not 5. If it was 5 I’d probably actually be an actual American by now ;-)

Regarding Node.js it probably is faster than MySQL but most importantly it’s a lot faster than Apache or IIS (whichever you use). So you can have a single Node.js server which handles hundreds or thousands of requests at the same time. That’s something much harder to do on other systems.

If you like the toe shoes they are called Vibram 5 fingers (http://www.vibramfivefingers.com) and they are the most comfortable shoes ever.

Thanks for the write up!

Tom

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