Request: Gridlayer Hosting

[damainman]

Here is just a copy and paste from a ticket I sent to support, however they replied that they are not considering implementing this so i'm hoping it gets a good response here and possibly added in the future.

Hello,

I'm planning on launching a large scale website community and was curious if you would be offering gridlayer hosting anytime soon as this would be the preferred platform for my website.

I don't currently see any mention of it on your website, but i've been noticing alot of hosting companies recently implementing it because of the beneficial advantage it has to ordinary hosting.

A discussion on webhostingtalk can be found on the subject through this link:
- http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=561046

If not then I would need to host my website with a different company that does offer this. However because i love the support and service here at hostgator i'm crossing my fingers in hopes that you will begin offering this service before i begin development on my website so i may continue to host with you.

Thank you in advance for your reply and reading this.

[slapshotw]

The only recent high-profile grid rollouts I'm aware of are Media Temple (gs-grid server), Mosso (part of Rackspace) and Layered Tech (gridlayer). While I do think this is the future of the industry, I think it's going to take a while before you see every host offering it...and some of them have had big problems with their rollouts (Mosso and MT had major MySQL outages).

"Grid" also means a lot of different things to different people, from just shared SAN to actual load-balancing.

I think you're going to see companies that have their own datacenters rolling this out first, because they are physically able to make those kinds of setups (look at my three examples above). HG is using The Planet datacenters, so I think you're going to have to see The Planet offer it before you see HG offer it.

As always, though, I could be wrong.

-Matt