After being with Mosso for a few months, I have decided to move to Wired Tree. All of my original opinions about Mosso in previous posts are still true, and I am not moving due to any negative reasons. It has more to do with my technical interests, and enjoying the highest performance possible when developing and managing my websites.
Reasons I am moving to Wired Tree:
- At Mosso, databases are stored on separate machines from web files/content. While performance overall is still good, having your database on the same machine as your web files makes a significant difference.
- Wired Tree is located in Chicago where I live. The connection speed between my home and the servers at Wired Tree is extremely fast, just like a local network.
- I’m immediately launching an old project that has high usage requirements (vbulletin, storage needs, etc.). I don’t have any interest in implementing caching plugins in either WordPress, or Vbulletin instances in order to minimize “compute cycles” at Mosso. I am currently well under the compute cycle requirements at Mosso, but as soon as I re-launch this old project, it will only be a matter of months until I get close to that 10,000 cycle limit.
I’ll offer a more detailed review of my experiences with Wired Tree in a month or two.