GoDaddy Buys Media Temple • Hacker News Board

Re: GoDaddy Buys Media Temple

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Post by uptown » Tue, Oct 15, 2013, 4:36 PM UTC

Anyone have a suggestion for a managed hosting alternative with pricing competitive to MediaTemple?

Re: GoDaddy Buys Media Temple

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Post by rwhitman » Tue, Oct 15, 2013, 4:36 PM UTC

mtMattNL wrote: post #8

recusancy wrote: post #3

Media Temple's brand destroyed by one press release.

Matt from (mt) here. Sorry that you feel that way, but we assure everybody that it's a good thing. We're not making any major changes at the company, and we're going to have 10 times the resources to make better products.

Bullshit.

Re: GoDaddy Buys Media Temple

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Post by acallaghan » Tue, Oct 15, 2013, 4:37 PM UTC

thebiglebrewski wrote: post #4

I totally agree with @recusancy, this is the worst news I've heard all day...I absolutely despise GoDaddy and everything they represent. Who should I switch to? Just have some WordPress site hosted on MediaTemple mostly...

Digital Ocean by a country mile, they come with a Wordpress image ready set-up for you, will cost $5 a month for an excellent webserver. I host 4 different Rails sites, and a Wordpress Network of 7 sites there, all running v well.

My referral link: https://www.digitalocean.com/?refcode=1ecc21b66a25

Edit: Note, I don't run all of those sites on the same server, that'd be silly.

Re: GoDaddy Buys Media Temple

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Post by anu_gupta » Tue, Oct 15, 2013, 4:37 PM UTC

thebiglebrewski wrote: post #4

I totally agree with @recusancy, this is the worst news I've heard all day...I absolutely despise GoDaddy and everything they represent. Who should I switch to? Just have some WordPress site hosted on MediaTemple mostly...

Depends on how much you want to pay, and exactly how much control you want, but one of these should sort you out.

* WPEngine

* Linode

* Bytemark (Big V)

* Rackspace Cloud

* DigitalOcean

Re: GoDaddy Buys Media Temple

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Post by nhangen » Tue, Oct 15, 2013, 4:37 PM UTC

I am so, so disappointed about this. Really love Media Temple and had been considering moving more of our resources to them.

On the other hand, I hate GoDaddy and will absolutely not remain a MT customer.

Anyone have a list of good alternatives for reliable semi-managed VPS hosting in the US?

Re: GoDaddy Buys Media Temple

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Post by mtMattNL » Tue, Oct 15, 2013, 4:38 PM UTC

thebiglebrewski wrote: post #4

I totally agree with @recusancy, this is the worst news I've heard all day...I absolutely despise GoDaddy and everything they represent. Who should I switch to? Just have some WordPress site hosted on MediaTemple mostly...

We knew that a lot of our current customers might have a negative response towards this. Like somebody said above, GoDaddy has made some pretty big changes in the past year. With this new acquisition we're hoping for bigger and better things for (mt), especially when it comes to new product lines.

Re: GoDaddy Buys Media Temple

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Post by torartc » Tue, Oct 15, 2013, 4:39 PM UTC

thebiglebrewski wrote: post #4

I totally agree with @recusancy, this is the worst news I've heard all day...I absolutely despise GoDaddy and everything they represent. Who should I switch to? Just have some WordPress site hosted on MediaTemple mostly...

I'm looking to move too. I'd really like a good suggestion as to where to move my sites.

Re: GoDaddy Buys Media Temple

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Post by ChrisNorstrom » Tue, Oct 15, 2013, 4:39 PM UTC

thebiglebrewski wrote: post #4

I totally agree with @recusancy, this is the worst news I've heard all day...I absolutely despise GoDaddy and everything they represent. Who should I switch to? Just have some WordPress site hosted on MediaTemple mostly...

I wanted to check out Media Temple as a long term host but after this.... I guess I'll stick with 1and1. I've been with 1and1 for almost 10 years. They're not perfect but they're more than satisfactory for me. When the traffic to my websites on my shared hosting grew they automatically moved me to a better more resource free server instead of forcing me to upgrade to virtual or dedicated servers. They're charging $14 per .com so do NOT register domains with them. Use NameCheap.com for that.

Re: GoDaddy Buys Media Temple

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Post by acallaghan » Tue, Oct 15, 2013, 4:39 PM UTC

This'll be a good thing if MT's customer service and server tech line up replaces over GoDaddy's, but it won't. I'm afraid GD will just take the customers, move them over to their server and strip MT for assets

Re: GoDaddy Buys Media Temple

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Post by dublinben » Tue, Oct 15, 2013, 4:39 PM UTC

thebiglebrewski wrote: post #4

I totally agree with @recusancy, this is the worst news I've heard all day...I absolutely despise GoDaddy and everything they represent. Who should I switch to? Just have some WordPress site hosted on MediaTemple mostly...

Depending on your usage, you should check out ASmallOrange.com and NearlyFreeSpeech.net. They're both very cost effective options for personal sites.