This Month (March 2010)
86,740 requests using 201.65 GB of bandwidth.

Last Month (February 2010)
103,229 requests using 143.76 GB of bandwidth.

Note

This will be the last month that I act as a mirror site for CDBurnerXP. My migration away from Media Temple doesn’t allow me the 1TB+ of bandwidth that the project needs. If you haven’t yet, be sure to check out one of the best free CD burning apps out there, http://cdburnerxp.se.

This Month (February 2010)
103,229 requests using 143.76 GB of bandwidth.

Last Month (January 2010)
478,785 requests using 1.19 TB of bandwidth.

Note

This will be the last full month that I act as a mirror site for CDBurnerXP. My migration away from Media Temple doesn’t allow me the 1TB+ of bandwidth that the project needs. If you haven’t yet, be sure to check out one of the best free CD burning apps out there, http://cdburnerxp.se.

This Month (January 2010)
478,785 requests using 1.19 TB of bandwidth.

Last Month (December 2009)
459,207 requests using 1.19 TB of bandwidth.

As always, you can learn more about this great CD burning software at their website, http://cdburnerxp.se.

This Month (December 2009)
459,207 requests using 1.19 TB of bandwidth.

Last Month (November 2009)
442,056 requests using 1.11 TB of bandwidth.

As always, you can learn more about this great CD burning software at their website, http://cdburnerxp.se.

This Month (November 2009)
442,056 requests using 1.11 TB of bandwidth.

Last Month (October 2009)
640,258 requests using 1.66 TB of bandwidth.

As always, you can learn more about this great CD burning software at their website, http://cdburnerxp.se.

SKFox.com performance on Web Faction versus Media Temple. Click for full size.

I think the graph above pretty well sums it up. Using my Wordpress Latency Tracker, you  can see that all things being equal (identical Wordpress installs, the only difference is the server), Web Faction is the clear performance winner. Note that the seconds scale on the left tops out at 0.7 seconds on Web Faction, while the Media Temple scale tops out at 50 seconds. I got the idea for, and created, the WP Latency Tracker plugin for the sole purpose of being able to give (mt) support something more tangible than just “it feels slower today”, and instead provide them with hard numbers. To be fair to (mt), those slow response times were during an system incident that lasted several days. However, slow downs like this were common on the Grid Server.

It wasn’t all bad. On the upside, they kept their promises of 1TB of bandwidth, which I used all of to act as a mirror for CDBurnerXP. Their user forums have a nice community feel to them, and their custom control panel is easy to use. I’ll miss those.

A co-worker mentioned Web Faction to me. I’ve been keeping an ear to the ground for a replacement of Media Temple, but really wanted some far out features  like support for Pylons, Django (Media Temple support this too, but only with a container which adds another $20/month to your bill), and custom compiled software. I signed up for an account and have been amazed at the ease of the transition and the performance.

Web Faction costs me $9.50/month. I was paying, at times, up to $37/month at (mt) for their (gs) and mySQL container. I never saw numbers like this, ever. On top of that, I don’t have to pay $20/month for Django, and can install/compile custom apps to my hearts content on Web Faction. They are a developers dream as far as the feature set they bring to their hosting products.

One of these days, maybe Media Temple can live up to their own hype.

I didn’t have any problems, except when it came to using jQuery UI 1.7.2.

When I open up a jQuery UI Dialog, I want the ‘X’ in the upper right corner to be hidden to force the users to use the buttons. That’s easy enough to do:

When using jQuery 1.3.2 with jQuery UI 1.7.2, this works as expected:

When using jQuery 1.4 with jQuery UI 1.7.2, this doesn’t work as expected:

See for yourself…

• Demo using jQuery 1.3.2
• Demo using jQuery 1.4
• Download the demos in a zip file

I’m not sure if this is a bug in jQuery 1.4, or if jQuery UI 1.7.2 just isn’t ready to be used with jQuery 1.4. I’m getting this problem consistently in FF 3.5 and IE8 on Windows 7 x64.

Ideas anybody?

This Month (October 2009)
640,258 requests using 1.66 TB of bandwidth.

Last Month (September 2009)
379,649 requests using 719.79 GB of bandwidth.

As always, you can learn more about this great CD burning software at their website, http://cdburnerxp.se.