Has anyone here used media temple's $20/mo service? I'm looking into that as well
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#12Has anyone here used media temple's $20/mo service? I'm looking into that as well
It's shared hosting with all the drawbacks that implies, yet without the price benefit of shared hosting anywhere else. If you have $20 per month to spend on hosting you have two choices -- if you want managed, shared hosting, save some money and buy it somewhere cheaper. If you want the full control of a VPS and can manage it, then spend that $20 on a VPS somewhere else and get much more.
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#14In response to both dangrossman and ohashi, sorry to not add this info to the question. The problem with me is my app will have subdomains for each user. For example, `john.myapp.com`. These subdomains are each going to be password-protected areas with healthy amounts of embedded video and I just don't trust the shared hosting I currently have. You've both recommended VPS. Any input on that? What do you think of some…
> The problem with me is my app will have subdomains for each user. For example, `john.myapp.com`. Sounds pretty straightforward. Wildcard DNS entry, wildcard vhost -- two lines of text that say "point all DNS queries to the IP of my VPS, point all HTTP requests to this document root (your app)", then your app has some code that looks at the hostname in the request to decide which site to show. Subdomains are not 'th…
Great answers man, thank you! I feel pretty good about Linode. I'm going to look more into it and shop around a bit more. Thanks for all the help.