Comments on: Those Media Temple GPUs

By: Joe Tan

Joe Tan — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 21:57:31 +0000

This month, which is my second month is now about 930 GPUs. I’m going to go over for sure…. I was hoping the new MySQL grid container would help reduce it’s rate, but it doesn’t seem to be doing that… mostly just a a faster / snappier site, which is good too

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 20:52:59 +0000

Hi Joe – how’s the GPU usage on your site these days?

The reason I ask is that I’ve just finished my first month with (MT) and I’ve been (mostly) impressed. I checked my GPU usage today and it’s at 250 for the month; this is from a handful of low traffic WordPress sites. It came as a bit of surprise. Now I’ve got to try to figure out what’s eating the CPU time…

By: Joe Tan

Joe Tan — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 18:29:55 +0000

Thanks Paul!

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 17:30:35 +0000

I’m redesigning my site, so please don’t judge me by that. I put you down as my referrer after seeing this a few weeks ago while searching for articles on how good media temple are. I’ve had no problems with them, but of course I do not have the visitor count and this load that your site does.

By: Joe Tan

Joe Tan — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 03:15:06 +0000

Yeah, in the last 24 hours, this site has consumed 42 GPUs… which at this rate, would put me at ~1,200 GPUs, or about $20 in overages.

By: Sorman

Sorman — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 01:36:28 +0000

I opened a new blog about two weeks ago, nowadays it is getting about 4500 pageviews a day (excluding the bots). It consumed about 25 gpu for the last 12 hours.

I was using stattraq plugin for wordpress which is a resource intensive plugin. I just deactivated it and hope it will decrease the gpu usage a bit. I’ll continue to monitor the gpu usage and let you informed.

By: Joe Tan

Joe Tan — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 04:25:52 +0000

this little blog of mine is getting about ~2000 pageviews per day… so it’s not really that much…

By: Jonathan E

Jonathan E — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 01:12:13 +0000

What type of traffic numbers were you getting that was causing your GPU usage to be so high? I’m thinking about switching to Media Temple and am curious about what it would take to reach the 1,000 GPU/month limit.