Category Archives: Media Temple

Mosso offers ‘new’ cloud hosting

By Alastair | February 19, 2008

I got all excited this morning reading TechCrunch with their post about Rackspace Offerering Cloud Computing with Mosso. Once I clicked through to investigate further it seems the ‘new’ cloud hosting is just their old hosting plan with 30GB of storage slashed off (down to 50GB) so they can charge you 0.50/GB a month for [...]

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Rails on Mosso

By Alastair | October 3, 2007

My non-stop quest to find decent shared Rails hosting may be complete. I was pretty pumped about Media Temple’s Grid supporting Rails but each of the half-dozen RoR sites I’ve deployed to the Grid haven’t been ripping it up performance wise. An issue with an unresolved grid error when trying to cache pages had [...]

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Rails on a Media Temple (dv) server

By Alastair | May 26, 2007

Tom at the wishlisting.com blog has a comprehensive tutorial on setting up Ruby on Rails (with a load balancer and Rmagick) on a Media Temple (dv) server. He deserves praise for installing ImageMagick without a package manager, which can turn into a marathon event of yak-shaving.

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Stop uploaded files getting ‘deleted’ with Capistrano

By Alastair | March 13, 2007

Here’s how to stop your site’s uploads or other static file directories disappering after doing a ‘cap deploy’ with Capistrano. Capistrano is actually behaving exactly as it should. The problem is that the ‘uploads’ directory is being left behind in release purgatory while the other files happily move on up to the castle in the [...]

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MT GS RoR A-Z: The complete guide to Rails on Media Temple’s Grid Server

By Alastair | February 18, 2007

This tutorial will walk you through setting up everything you need to deploy Rails apps on Media Temple’s Grid Server. The information on each part of the setup is available elsewhere but I thought it would be helpful to have it all in one place. The tutorial will cover setting up a rails container, creating [...]

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