My New Virtual Home

Late last night I switched my primary domain, MattSingley.com, to a new host after receiving a lot of messages yesterday that my web site was displaying “Service Is Unavailable”.  Although I get traffic spikes from time to time, this blog doesn’t pull so much traffic that it should shut down with modest increases, even after mentions by the L.A. Times and Mashable.  Given that, I have selected Media Temple as my new host to see how things go.  I’ve been impressed with other sites’ stability that are hosted there, I love the fact that they talk about easy scalability and recognize that spikes in traffic do happen, and I’m particularly impressed with their Twitter team. It sounds like a winning combination to me!

In moving over I did lose some things.  For example, the Tweetmeme button that I use on posts that allows readers to quickly and easily post my articles to Twitter reset…so now it appears that most of my articles have been retweeted zero times. I also had to deal with a lot of tweets, DMs, IMs and emails last night from people letting me know that my “blog was down”, which was bad but necessary timing given the big news of Twitter suspensions yesterday. Those messages were much better than the ones I got informing me that people were trying to give me information about suspended accounts in the comments of my post but couldn’t because the service was unavailable.

I hope this move will prevent future downtime, or at least minimize it.  A big “thank you!” to those of you that take the time to stop by this little corner of the internet and read about social media optimization.