View the 3 sites and Pingdom monitoring reports I’m using for this Webhosting Shootout.

I’m back to work after the holidays – it’s only Wednesday and already I’ve put in over 50 hours building and fixing sites. Great year so far working with an old client, a new client and my day job.

My test site at Media Temple was down and their Support team took care of me. What do you think of their response?

Just as I was preparing my first post on uptime and response time for my 3 test sites, Media Temple goes down. I’m gonna let this run and see when they realize I’m down.

I was getting hundreds of spam comments every night – I’ve gotten only 15 spam comments since I made these updates!

It’s a pretty close race, but I know what I consider important when installing and managing WordPress. Here’s who I like for this round.

I’ve installed and configured over 50 WordPress blogs at CartikaHosting, and I can confirm that it really is a 5 minute install. But how do MediaLayer and Media Temple compare?

I’m excited to start using MediaLayer after my excellent introduction to their services.