Saw this at the Media Temple blog:
Update: April 8, 2008
We would like to extend our thanks for the continued understanding and patience of all of our customers affected by this incident. In an effort to bring you up to date we would like to share where we stand at this time.
Through internal testing and the continuing evaluation of our systems, (mt) Media Temple has concluded that the recent availability and latency problems of the (gs) Grid-Service product are related to segments of our current storage architecture.
Some time ago, we brought online additional storage resources to alleviate anticipated pressure points. Although we did see some very positive short-term improvements, things did not scale as far as our original projections showed. In order to meet these demands we are currently preparing additional hardware resources, to be completed and in place later today. Over the next few days and weeks, we will be rebalancing the storage load onto these new resources.
We would like all of our customers impacted by this to understand that weâre doing our best to provide a service that in no way exhibits the behavior you are currently seeing. This is our top priority and we are acting accordingly. Whenever possible, weâve been able to minimize the length of time your service has been affected. Unfortunately, this has resulted in the small service interruptions that you have likely experienced during the course of this incident.
This System Status posting will continue to provide timely updates that have meaningful, useful information. Until such time we respectfully ask that any support requests that you have attached to this incident stay open. We promise to provide updates to this System Status blog, and notify any users that have submitted a support request related to these events. These two channels are currently the most effective way we can communicate vital information to our clients.
So no refund? Hahaa…
Media Temple has been hit by numerous issues recently. Things are responding slow. A couple of times I just lose my patience and went to bed. I hope things will be okay soon.
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