I’ve been fairly busy as of late with freelance projects. Nothing too interesting, but hey work is work!
Mediatemple, (mt), is having trouble as of late with their Grid Server hosting. For those who don’t know, grid server hosting is a “revolutionary new type of hosting”. It is supposed to spread website demand throughout a grid of interconnected computers, thereby avoiding problems such as the slashdot or digg effect. Some of my other pages survived a digg without hassle using mediatemple (something that dreamhost could do, but not very well). However despite the great wonders of Grid Hosting, mediatemple has run into several bottlenecks over the past month. They have proceeded to add a lot of new hardware which seems to have alleviated the whole problem.
However, perhaps more exciting is their promise of every user’s own MySQL container! I hope this means I can finally be able to tinker with my own MySQL server settings! What do I need this for you ask? Well for example for one of my projects I needed to use a MySQL fulltext implementation of a tagging system, and by default, MySQL has its minimum word length limit set to 4, meaning all tags of length 3 or less won’t be searched! So I asked mediatemple to set ft_min_word_length = 3 but of course they wouldn’t because that would affect everybody else on my server (grid?)
So hoping my own MySQL container will solve this problem!
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