Monthly Archives: July 2009

16 pratical tips to speed up WordPress on Media Temple’s Grid-Service

Here you have general rules but I think that this guide will be very useful specially for Media Temple GS users (like me).
As maybe you know when you buy this service you can use each month 1000 GPUs (which stands for Grid Performance Unit).
According to Media Temple website “1 GPU = 7.24% of 1 CPU for 1 hour. You can use up to 1.38 GPU’s per hour and not go over the 1000 GPU limit”.
After this limit you have to pay $0.10 per GPU.

If your WordPress is not correctly configured you’ll need a lot of GPUs for few thousands of users.
After a good optimization instead you’ll be able to respect the montly limit without problems (if not, maybe you can consider  to upgrade your plan to a dedicated-virtual server).

I read a lot of different opinions about the Media Temple’s Grid-Service.
Personally i love it (keep up the good work, guys!), but i’m absolutely sure that you have to work a bit with your theme to take all the advantages of this technology.

So, roll up your sleeves, and it’s time to start.