I used a Media Temple (gs) server as a testing/staging server for a project I worked on last year. The MySQL server was comically slow (I'm talking 5-10+ second

I used a Media Temple (gs) server as a testing/staging server for a project I worked on last year. The MySQL server was comically slow (I'm talking 5-10+ second response times), and would simply stop responding multiple times a day. Support acknowledged a problem but nothing ever got fixed. I eventually moved over to Linode, where response times were near-instant and downtime was never a problem. During that same period, I started using email hosted on my own domain through my Media Temple account, and would see straight up email downtime 1-2 times a week (as I remember there were periods were emails were dropped without notification), and usually saw terrible performance when the server was running. Since then I've used Google Apps and Fastmail, and have had absolutely no issues with either. It's possible that I just had extremely bad luck and made some errors on my end, and I know some smart people who seem to use Media Temple without any problems, but I've been burned way too many times by them to even consider using them for something in the future.