Media Temple's stand on SOPA(weblog.mediatemple.net)
weblog.mediatemple.net
Media Temple's stand on SOPA
http://weblog.mediatemple.net/2011/12/23/media-temples-stand-on-sopa/
2 comments
They really are an excellent company. I currently host my startup with them and I couldn't be more pleased. Glad to see they're against SOPA as well.
I was always pretty happy with the stability and speed of the DVs, but the prices are a lot higher than you can get elsewhere (linode, for example). You can get a dedicated dual quad with a heap of RAM and an SSD at a low price place like Server Beach for the same price as MT's 4 GB DV.
I also agree. I've been with them for 10+ years and only had 2 or 3 issues which were solved in a few hours. Great support and an excellent company.
I was only with them for six months and after that time they managed to irreversibly destroy everything I had been working on, including the backups I'd paid for. (They said that the backups were on a different server which also happened to catastrophically fail at the same time...)
I want to love MediaTemple, and I agree that their support is excellent, and I accept that terrible accidents happen, but I can never bring myself to use them in a production environment ever again. (The project I was hosting with them was in a sort of private beta, and although I had second backups of the code I had very very foolishly trusted the Snapshot backups with all my user data. Lesson learned.)
Anyway, I'm just one dissenting data point in a giant sea of happy customers. I don't mean to dissuade anyone from using MT--just please don't be any less paranoid about their service than the rest.
I want to love MediaTemple, and I agree that their support is excellent, and I accept that terrible accidents happen, but I can never bring myself to use them in a production environment ever again. (The project I was hosting with them was in a sort of private beta, and although I had second backups of the code I had very very foolishly trusted the Snapshot backups with all my user data. Lesson learned.)
Anyway, I'm just one dissenting data point in a giant sea of happy customers. I don't mean to dissuade anyone from using MT--just please don't be any less paranoid about their service than the rest.
Seconded. I've been using Media Temple for a couple years now and they have always been pleasant to deal with.
GoDaddy has always been sketchy.
GoDaddy has always been sketchy.
We the consumer have enormous power over these rigid companies with interests that aren't inline with their customers.