Comments on: Why Media Temple Sucks, or How to Save Money on Web Hosting

By: john

john — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 21:44:05 +0000

Having a terrible time with mysql performance. Fetching 3 records is taking more than 1 minute. It’s a joke. On support call with MT now. If they can’t fix this, I’m moving on.

By: Richard Pollock

Richard Pollock — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 03:55:24 +0000

Media Temple served a DMCA copyright violation notice to my web host, so the link no longer works… Apparently, the concessions to parody in the DMCA escaped them.

By: Tyler

Tyler — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 13:57:37 +0000

Blue Host is an oversold nightmare now, they use to be good way back when but any thing after 2008 is just terrible. Packing 2000+ customers per host node and just squeezing maximum profit out of each little bit.

Besides you can buy a VPS now for $19 and it will outperform any thing.

I have one at http://beyondhosting.net

By: Andrew Wilkinson

Andrew Wilkinson — Thu, 27 May 2010 11:04:41 +0000

I have had numerous issues with MT as discussed by all of you above. I switched from them about 12 months ago to what was then called Mosso and now RackSpaceCloud.

To be honest it is a little more expensive, but since I have switched all my wordpress blogs to using CDN, and my clients images as well, my CPU count has dropped as well as my bandwidth. I have never had a site down, and when one site had a TV commercial in the UK the sudden upsurge in hits didn’t make the site flinch one bit. I also run MINT stats on the site so all the clients get the stats using the pepper iphone add on.

In terms of support I have to say it has been excellent, using livechat I ‘usually’ get a person that knows what they are talking about and any fixes that cannot be done in their control panel they are usually keen to do, and response is usually seconds. If you raise a support ticket (why would you) then it can be a few hours before you get a response.

As a whole expensive but worth every penny. I run around 57 sites on their cloud sites package, which I assume is similar to the MT GS package.

By: Trade WoW Accounts

Trade WoW Accounts — Fri, 07 May 2010 20:15:08 +0000

Wow, I was actually considering MT.

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By: Bill

Bill — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 19:59:52 +0000

Took the words from my mouth. The slick website and graphics sold me as did the pitch-perfect sales speak on the website. I have never ever imagined that any one single host could experience this much downtime. Even on my cheap $3/month host with 2MHost I never had this much downtime.

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By: simon (long-time MT customer)

simon (long-time MT customer) — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 08:20:38 +0000

I’m another long-term, loyal MT customer looking to vent frustration and quickly escape. The hosting service really sucks. We have optimised everything on our site, got Zend running, static caches etc, but over 2.000 visits a day MT fall over, drop DB connections… We’re well within their stated resource limits – and I’ve even asked how we can make use of the ‘burstability’ – I even said what can we pay you to keep our site running… support pointed that the problem is a few missing images on the homepage!
We’ve asked them to tell us what resource limits we’re hitting but get no answer.

We have 7 grid-servers, with MySQl containers and the whole shooting match. We’ll be moving the lot as soon as we possibly can. This is beyond a joke now!

By: ThemeMeme

ThemeMeme — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 18:41:03 +0000

That’s great! Very funny!