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Media Temple. I absolutely hate it, but moving to a new host is a bitch. When I get some time to move I am either moving back to Slicehost or Linode and built m

by pavs 17y ago

Media Temple. I absolutely hate it, but moving to a new host is a bitch. When I get some time to move I am either moving back to Slicehost or Linode and built my server up from scratch. Note to everyone, don't ever use media temple. They are absolutely horrible. Every week, either the servers gets hacked, servers goes down or something is wrong with their admin panel and they won't let you access it. And of course its slow as hell. I have used their both dv and gs setup, just horrible. Their customer service is decent, but what am I going to do with good customer service when the server has so many problems? They do have a good marketing and design team. I have to give them that.

rwhitman 17y ago
Haha same deal. The gridserver is $20/mo and I have a dozen sites on it, nice control panel but the uptime is horrible and its slow as molasses It blows yet I have to keep it unless I want to migrate 12 different sites...
- pavs 17y ago
  I feel you. Migration can be a pain in the ass. Fortunately I only have 5 site with media temple. Next month I will have some free time and I will definitely dump this horrible hosting. I personally recommend slicehost, there are excellent. Never had a problem with them, leaving them was a mistake. I was looking for a managed solution and MT was recommended by some guys so I jumped.
patrickgzill 17y ago
If you have a Plesk (or whatever other panel they have as an offering) it should actually be close to trivial to move to another provider that offers the same control panel. Most of the big panels have command line utilities that allow you to backup a site at a time or the entire set of sites, then restore them to a different machine.
- pavs 17y ago
  MT uses plesk for their VPS, but currently I am using gs (grid server) which has its own custom panel. Even if they had plesk or something similar for migration, it wouldn't help because I want to move to slicehost/linode and they are non-managed server, so they don't use plesk/cpanel (to the best of my knowledge). Almost all migration needs to be manual, its not difficult, its just pain in the butt repetitive manual work and has potential for lot of things going south.

by pavs 17y ago

rwhitman 17y ago

Haha same deal. The gridserver is $20/mo and I have a dozen sites on it, nice control panel but the uptime is horrible and its slow as molasses It blows yet I have to keep it unless I want to migrate 12 different sites...

pavs 17y ago
I feel you. Migration can be a pain in the ass. Fortunately I only have 5 site with media temple. Next month I will have some free time and I will definitely dump this horrible hosting. I personally recommend slicehost, there are excellent. Never had a problem with them, leaving them was a mistake. I was looking for a managed solution and MT was recommended by some guys so I jumped.

patrickgzill 17y ago

If you have a Plesk (or whatever other panel they have as an offering) it should actually be close to trivial to move to another provider that offers the same control panel. Most of the big panels have command line utilities that allow you to backup a site at a time or the entire set of sites, then restore them to a different machine.

pavs 17y ago
MT uses plesk for their VPS, but currently I am using gs (grid server) which has its own custom panel. Even if they had plesk or something similar for migration, it wouldn't help because I want to move to slicehost/linode and they are non-managed server, so they don't use plesk/cpanel (to the best of my knowledge). Almost all migration needs to be manual, its not difficult, its just pain in the butt repetitive manual work and has potential for lot of things going south.