Comments on: MediaTemple: The last hosting plan you’ll ever need

By: Wallace

Wallace — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 23:49:16 +0000

i owned a blog cssjuice dot com a few years ago and get digg and delicious very often, site5 cannot handle it and advice me to switch another hosting vendor, i chose mt, but it’s definitely wrong due to the slow and poor customer support, i ask for refund $50 to my credit card, but i never get this money until now. Think twice you should before use MT.

By: Michael Stark

Michael Stark — Mon, 24 May 2010 05:36:09 +0000

What do you mean " When I upgraded my grid container I had my databases trashed during the changeover so I had to rebuild the database from backups" *

Did you actually have to restart/dump the data in your database before switching over to dv?

ALSO does anyone know their downtime - ' scheduled maintenance time ' now? ALSO do they still have traffic analytics available

By: James Rayers

James Rayers — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 19:05:07 +0000

A nice article. I’m doing some research in finding a new host and Media Temple looks like a great option. Just out of interest what are the benefits of your partnership with Media Temple?

By: CG

CG — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 16:43:57 +0000

I have been using MT a little over a year now. I started with the 20USD gs service. I also use lunarpages (which I love as well). What happened to me is I had gone over my concurrent MySQL connections and was using a lot of resources so I updated to a MySQL grid container, I went over that and had to upgrade to a dv. (This is all in a couple months- Aug had to upgrade the grid container and Nov had to move to a dv) When I upgraded my grid container I had my databases trashed during the changeover so I had to rebuild the database from backups. It was for the best anyway, I think.

I am not sure I assume they changed how the gs works or my site got an unusual spike in concurrent users but my gs at 20USD a month had the same concurrent connects as my lunarpages- which is ridiculous at the price. I will say, being with lunarpages for 6 years now and MT for over a year both have exceptional support. With regret I will move my lunarpages domains over to MT to consolidate my hosting but will always recommend lunarpages as a great low cost hosting for sites that aren't as heavily trafficked as mine.

But I am super happy with my dv, my only concern is the setup of CentOS is a little different than what I normally deal and such is life when you don't do it yourself but it has handled my site well.

I will say there's a strange buggy issue with the dv, regarding apache as sometimes apache will stop running after I get an error in the error logs. The mediatemple forums that they have set up has info about it and a bandaid to combat the issue. Anyway, that is my experience with MT. Both the good and the bad.

By: Gary Sanet

Gary Sanet — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 12:35:53 +0000

Can anyone tell me what would happen if you run out of the 1 TB bandwidth Limit???

What's the additional costs involved for extra bandwidth ????

By: cc

cc — Wed, 06 May 2009 02:06:53 +0000

Our 3 sites, all hosted on Mediatemple, have now been down for 26 hours! no sites, email, http://ftp…nothing. This is unacceptable for $200/year. If youre running any kind of e-commerce site, DO NOT USE MEDIA TEMPLE!! Aside from the big 48 hour crashes, they often go down every week for an average of 15 minutes ++ and at the worst times…lunchtime etc. Sure, they have a flashy c-panel but THATS IT.
MEDIA TEMPLE IS OVERPRICED CRAP! We just signed on for a new server company. hope they dont suck as bad.

By: Jesse

Jesse — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 20:46:14 +0000

Don’t sign up for them unless you get a dedicated server or if it’s for a personal site. Their grid service goes down at least once a week and their “scheduled maintenance” emails that I get all the time are like spam now. I wish I never signed up any of my clients with them.

By: PZ

PZ — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 16:34:03 +0000

I love MediaTemple.

This is really important for people who want to run a big blog or multiple blogs. Signing up for one of these cheap, "unlimited" web hosts is a complete waste of money and counterproductive. They'll crash your sites, be unable to handle the load, claim you are using too much CPU, etc. I set up a blog that became extremely successful at Blue Host, and they kicked me out. Seriously. Their "unlimited" was just a sad joke because they gave you so little processing power. Same thing at other hosts I've used like PowWeb, which is really great to work with as far as customer service goes (as opposed to Blue Host), but they just can't handle complex dynamic sites.

If you are really serious about running a site or multiple sites, pick someone like MediaTemple, pay a little extra, and be with a host that can handle not only what you want to do today, but what you can dream up doing tomorrow.

By: Dmitry

Dmitry — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 20:48:32 +0000

I have 1 VPS on MT and asked many my clients to host there. So for now we run 5 servers at MT and we are very happy with it. Support was always fast and professional. The bad side is that grid service plan is sucks. Yes it can fight this dig spikes but it become more expensive then VPS if you will buy additional server time. Also i really love their control panel design.

By: Chris B

Chris B — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 00:36:10 +0000

I just got word from Arman @ MT and they have a forum now: http://mediatemple.net/labs/grid/mt-forums.htm. I’ve only been with MT for a few months now however, as mentioned in the post, the support is great and I have been personally contacted, more than I can say with other hosts. Previously I had Site5, who overall we not bad, I found the monthly bandwidth too low for the price. I also have had quite a few issues with moving domains in and out of Site5 (not within though).