Moving again
I'm on a blogging frenzy! But I'm fed up with Movable Type's sluggishness...
And I know without any shadow of doubt that the culprit is not MT, but Dreamhost and their hosting which is anything but dreamy. Nightmarish maybe, but not dreamy. So I have decided to move back to TotalChoice Hosting as soon as they sort out a PayPal payment issue I just reported after being unable to apply.
If this blog becomes inaccessible during the following days it means that I'm changing nameservers and I'm on my way out of this crap. At least with this site.
Huh, I've been pretty happy with them using WP, but mainly because they are so generous with space and bandwidth. It increases every month and I have 500GB now...enough to backup my MP3s "offsite". Thus I can also run Ampache so my girlfriend and I can stream when we are not at home. I would get a dedicated machine if I was hosting a professional site, but I've been happy enough with my personal site on a shared server. Maybe you are just on a busy shared server and can be moved? Also, there's some PHP tweaking one can do as well but I haven't bothered. Your site seems quite quick to me though...
Consider this, also. MT is not exactly a dream, either.
On the other hand, I'm on MT and DH, too—so I'm steamed up as well.
@kit: I know WordPress. Too well, I could say - as I've been providing support for various installations over the years - plus I have two of my own (Turism Maramures and Link7 Blog). However Movable Type has it's own magic and elite flavour.
@RS: The pages are quick, but just try submitting a comment. And imagine that the whole administration works just as sluggishly. However, I won't discontinue my DH subscription as it works fairly well with PHP. No complaints in this department, thank you. Plus the bandwidth, storage space, SVN and the other goodies... MT / CGI is a whole different story, though. And I saw how fast it was working on TotalChoice a while back when I was still being hosted there. So I'm doing the only logical thing: going back. For a few bucks a month it's not worth going through all the headaches of moving to a new DreamHost server, which might be just as overloaded as this one.
Thank you both for your feedback. ;)
Yeah, yeah... Stick to your l33t MT :p
But add me to the "allowed spammers list"!
You're whitelisted.