It’s no secret, I’ve had problems with Media Temple’s GPU. Back in March, my site was on track for over 1000 GPUs a month, pushing my account into the overage category. Media Temple quickly responded, helped me out, and identified a major issue in their GPU calculation algorithm. After realizing their mistake, they refunded everyone who experienced a GPU overage and disabled GPU tracking until they could correct the issue.
Later today Media Temple will relaunch GPU tracking, this time done correctly. They’ve dramatically beefed up their GPU analysis tool, providing graphs, file by file GPU usage, performance tips, and configurable time frames. If you ever had any doubt on how Media Temple tracks GPUs, this new tool will remove that doubt.
Also, if you experienced GPU overages before, more than likely GPUs will no longer be a concern. For example, my site previously used 1000+ GPUs a month. The corrected GPU calculation puts my usage at 150 GPUs a month. I think 150 GPU a month is reasonable for a website my size, and I hope you will agree with your new GPU usage.
Finally, if you are still experiencing GPU overages after the launch of the new tool, Media Temple will have knowledge base articles with tips on reducing usage shortly. Some of the information will be based on my findings with WordPress, so if you are looking to reduce usage now, I recommend you read my article.
I hope the relaunch of GPU tracking is seen as a welcome addition, rather than a bane. I know more than anyone of Media Temple’s issues with GPU tracking, and you have my word; Media Temple has corrected the issue. I’ll leave you with a cropped preview of the upcoming GPU analysis tool landing in the account center later today.
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Looks awesome. This is the sort of thing that keeps me with (MT). I’m hoping that I see a similar reduction in GPU consumption; I’d got to the point where (MT) just didn’t look feasible for what I wanted to do (which was just a few humble blogs, really).
So how many impressions do you do/day on average? You say you use about 150 GPUs/month, just for reference would be great if you could share about how many pageview burn that many GPUs. I am thinking about switching to MT but I do 10k pageviews/day, which honestly I don’t consider much if you run clean code, and hopefully MT will agree. I guess I’ll find out when I get one of these GPU reports, fingers crossed.
You should be alright if you’re running clean code. A loaded WordPress install would be tough, but if your pages are static or cached, you should be fine.
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