I’ve had an amazing year so far. Lots of new clients, a bunch of site migrations and tons of learnings… and I totally neglected my own site.

I see a lot of great sites suffering the same problem. The people doing the work need to balance jobs, families, clients, life and more. Their sites are stocked with great info and you can tell they were really into their sites, but you can see where they got slammed because they just …

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.

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

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.

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.