Is anyone using Media Temple?
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I'm looking to move 5 of my sites from Hostgator's shared servers to Media Temple's dedicated virtual servers. Anyone have experience with (mt)?
I'm planning on adding a few more sites this year and several things they offer are attractive to me:
- A (virtually) dedicated environment: Faster websites, better user experience, plus I like having some control over my site's resources
- Scalability: I can add more resources easily (although not super cheap)
- Unique control panels for each site: More control for my tech savvy clients.
- Unique IPs for $1 a month: More linkjuice between my related sites.
$50/month is a big jump from my $12/month Hostgator account but I'm thinking it will be worth it.
Am I on the right track or is this a fool's errand?
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Thanks for the insight guys. I'll give them a go.
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I used MediaTemple for 2 years before moving hosting locally ($50 per month is cheap for Ireland!).
I have to say they were great, there was no downtime and the spec of the DV was immense.
The support was a little slow sometimes but I rarely needed them and I always got what I needed from them.
No question in mind for reliability which was my main concern.
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I've had a very good experience with Media Temple over the past 2 years now. I have 3 DV servers with them all with Plesk. Give them a call if you can afford to buy 12 months service, they take 10% - 20% off. I got in trouble with godaddy dv hosting where my bandwidth usage went crazy a couple days and they billed me 6K without an alert or anything. They ended up taking $4500 off but the supervisor was a real jackazz to talk to. Anyway MT has been a dream so far, and they offer a better service then godaddy in my opinion by far.
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