MediaTemple and the Mélange Grand Challenge
As the server in my apartment has been long-inaccessible and I’m unable to fix it while abroad, I finally decided to pony up the cash to move my personal website and the sites of all my hobby projects to a professional hosting company. Due to previous experience (via the Drexel Smart House) and support for the LAMP + SVN stack, I chose to use MediaTemple despite their higher-than-average fees.
So far, the experience has been decent. I’m not thrilled to find out that their subversion is far out of date (as are many of their binaries), they don’t support mod_dav_svn for accessing subversion with http or https, nor do they have a 1-Click installer for Trac. I’ve spent the last several hours installing svn, trac, and bitten on MediaTemple Grid Service, while attempting to mirror the domain structure I had while self-hosting. In a follow-up post, I’ll detail how I’ve accomplished this several-hour feat.
As a unforeseen positive side effect, I’ve decided that, since many of my side projects involve overlapping teams, and because MediaTemple allows me to host up to 100 domains for the same fee, the common group will setup an umbrella site to store our various personnel and project information. Plus, partners can help share server and maintenance costs. Hopefully, this will grow one day into something akin to SQUID Labs or, at the minimum, Tartarus.Org. What will this meta-project be called, you ask? Well, we’re not so sure yet; we have purchased a few potential domain names (and registered under one of these), however, we are very open to suggestions.
The mélange grand challenge: whomever comes up with the best name as determined by our very partial judges gets the grand prize of boasting about their uniquely creative spirit. Note that I finally added comments to this blog just for this :-)
