mediatemple grid crap
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In my recent interview with Tim Dorr of A Small Orange I asked him about Media Temple’s “grid” and he responded by saying that it was not a grid but a cluster of servers and I have to agree with him on this (as would most people). The entire thought behind a grid was that you can use the computing power behind all the nodes to solve a single problem and if any one node failed there would be no impact. We’ll let IBM define a grid:
Grid computing enables the virtualization of distributed computing and data resources such as processing, network bandwidth and storage capacity to create a single system image, granting users and applications seamless access to vast IT capabilities. Just as an Internet user views a unified instance of content via the Web, a grid user essentially sees a single, large virtual computer.
You can also view more definitions of what a grid is here here here and here with example of grids. Once you read the definition of a grid and then look at Media Temple’s grid or 3tera’s Applogic you’ll notice they are not grids. They cannot distribute processing tasks across multiple nodes and if the node you are on crashes you will go down.