Once in a while Media Temple would send me a mail telling me that my database is overloaded or something and place me into a ’special’ program for 3 days where I get special utilities to manage the database. You will stop feeling special after they send four or five such things.
It makes me wonder how bad can I hit the database. I run this blog and a couple of other things using my Media Temple account and, base on analytics software (I use Google), this blog is most visited site among the sites hosted in my account.
I already run WP super cache, set it to use cache for 12 hours. It didn’t work. Media Temple returns to complain about my database again. And the analysis tools they provide is unable to give me any information on how to improve the database.
Eventually I decide to just ignore it. And a couple of months passed and they stopped complaining which is great. I love it when I don’t have email. So I decide to do an experiment:
I switch off caching.
So no caching, calls the database like crazy, see what happens. Two and a half weeks has passed, no email from Media Temple (I feel so lonely). The database have higher number of queries, my GPU is depleted at a greater speed, but no email.
My visitors didn’t drop last I check. So I presume… Media Temple’s database are more tolerant already. Previously, they’ve been hit by some technical issues. I probably won’t leave Media Temple just yet. I’ll wait-and-see. But I don’t think I have confidence to up my account to a better plan with them.
Anyway, if you’re interested in Media Temple and would be kind enough, consider quoting ‘RYNSE.COM’ without quotes as your referrer. This would give me a bit of discount for my yearly subscriptions. Thanks.