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Re: GoDaddy Buys Media Temple

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Post by ebbv »

scott_karana wrote: post #106
ebbv wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When's your first elephant hunting safari planned?

I'm sorry, but what does an ex-CEO's personal hobby have to do with the way the business is run? I'm sure a shockingly high amount of other CEOs have had African safari and have taken elephants, distasteful as that may be. GoDaddy has offered us a ton of ammo with which to criticize them professionally, so let's not get into personal ad hominem attacks.

First off, it was obviously a joke.

Secondly, maybe you've never seen the video but there's GoDaddy hats and shirts and shit all over it. He's the one who tied the business to it.

Re: GoDaddy Buys Media Temple

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Post by billturner »

thebiglebrewski wrote: post #54
codereflection wrote: post #44

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Checkout http://ghost.org/ , which just opened to the public, if all you're doing with WP is blogging. Otherwise you may want to consider signing up on Wordpress.com, which isn't all that bad (just very limited in configurability).

I actually just wrote a blog post on Ghost! http://blog.zfeldman.com/2013-10-15-i-ain-t-fraid-of-no-ghos... It's really cool but I don't think it's ready for primetime yet. I want to be able to host static sites and WordPress all from one hosting account with great support and features. Seems like MediaTemple was the only service to offer that...

Your post looks good, but why do you link to your twitter post, which links back to a HN submission, which finally links to the post on your site? Can you not just point directly to it?

Re: GoDaddy Buys Media Temple

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Post by ohashi »

atourgates wrote: post #10
recusancy wrote: post #3

Media Temple's brand destroyed by one press release.

Now I'll be spending my morning creating a plan to transfer our clients (mostly small to medium businesses) that host on MediaTemple, to a new host. Any recommendations on a host that offers similar quality/features to Media Temple's Grid/Shared hosting? Specifically: * About $20/mo * An Easy to Use Dashboard * The Ability to Reasonably Handle Traffic Bursts * Decent Support And, of course, not owned by GoDaddy.

My startup tracks which web hosts people actually like and why. Take a look at the data: http://reviewsignal.com/webhosting/compare

It's hard to say which hosts are similar because MT is a hybrid between shared/cloud. I don't know any other hosts which have a similar mysql grid container that scales (except maybe Amazon RDS).

As far as dashboards most use cPanel or Plesk. If you don't like those, the field gets a lot smaller.

Re: GoDaddy Buys Media Temple

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Post by One4yu2see »

corry wrote: post #46
atourgates wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Now I'll be spending my morning creating a plan to transfer our clients (mostly small to medium businesses) that host on MediaTemple, to a new host. Any recommendations on a host that offers similar quality/features to Media Temple's Grid/Shared hosting? Specifically: * About $20/mo * An Easy to Use Dashboard * The Ability to Reasonably Handle Traffic Bursts * Decent Support And, of course, not owned by GoDaddy.

Random suggestion - check out NearlyFreeSpeech ( https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/ ). I use them for a few sites and like their vibe and offerings. It's mostly pay-per-traffic I think. The dashboard isn't really a dashboard, more of a set of config screens. I find it intuitive but may not be what you're looking for. You can easily set up an account and transfer sites over.

I've used them for low traffic static sites, but i don't recommend it for anything more complex. There are few configuration options, but very sparse.

Re: GoDaddy Buys Media Temple

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Post by ohashi »

josefresco wrote: post #37

For all those here suggestion small alternate hosts, accompanied by their anecdotal positive experience remember that your favorite host is probably one fat check away from selling out just like MT. In fact, most web hosting models are built from the ground up to eventually get swallowed (acquired) but a larger hosting fish. I've been through several hosting buyouts with my clients over the last 13 years and none hav…

Another problem with small hosts is small sample size. Hosting is an odd product that everything is good until it's not. Many/most people never really have any sort of 'experience' with their hosting company. Which ends up as a default neutral/positive opinion. But it's really when there's some sort of incident that the real quality of a company comes out. Until a host is big enough, there generally aren't enough incidents and data points to say much about them.

Re: GoDaddy Buys Media Temple

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Post by thebiglebrewski »

billturner wrote: post #112
thebiglebrewski wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I actually just wrote a blog post on Ghost! http://blog.zfeldman.com/2013-10-15-i-ain-t-fraid-of-no-ghos... It's really cool but I don't think it's ready for primetime yet. I want to be able to host static sites and WordPress all from one hosting account with great support and features. Seems like MediaTemple was the only service to offer that...

Your post looks good, but why do you link to your twitter post, which links back to a HN submission, which finally links to the post on your site? Can you not just point directly to it?

Haha sorry about that, things got a little mixed up! That's just the fastest way I could find it...will more directly link in the future. I don't think you can edit HN posts?

Re: GoDaddy Buys Media Temple

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Post by thebiglebrewski »

billturner wrote: post #112
thebiglebrewski wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I actually just wrote a blog post on Ghost! http://blog.zfeldman.com/2013-10-15-i-ain-t-fraid-of-no-ghos... It's really cool but I don't think it's ready for primetime yet. I want to be able to host static sites and WordPress all from one hosting account with great support and features. Seems like MediaTemple was the only service to offer that...

Your post looks good, but why do you link to your twitter post, which links back to a HN submission, which finally links to the post on your site? Can you not just point directly to it?

Edited!!!! Thanks

Re: GoDaddy Buys Media Temple

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Post by ohashi »

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...

If you are starting to research your options you may find the data my startup publishes useful: http://reviewsignal.com/webhosting/compare

It tracks what people are saying about many of the big hosting providers on Twitter and analyzes what people like/don't like about them.

As far as anu_gupta's recommendations, I have data on 4/5:

Digital Ocean: http://reviewsignal.com/webhosting/company/101/digitalocean/

Linode: http://reviewsignal.com/webhosting/company/24/linode/

WPEngine: http://reviewsignal.com/webhosting/company/103/wpengine/

RackSpace: http://reviewsignal.com/webhosting/company/21/rackspace/

Re: GoDaddy Buys Media Temple

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Post by modoc »

mtMattNL wrote: post #96
nwh wrote: post #65

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Ugh. There's even some sly wording in that blog post too. ⁢⁢ > Will you be sharing my personal & financial information with GoDaddy? > Your personal and financial information stays securely in our system. No third-party vendors will ever have access to it, which has always been our practice. Doesn't quite answer the question, so I'll have to assume (as other commenters did there too) that you will be sharing informat…

It stays within our system, but there may be some info exchanged. The extent of that share, I have not been filled in on, but I know it's not a complete data dump into Godaddy's databases.

So the FAQ response is a blatant duck/deception?

Re: GoDaddy Buys Media Temple

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Post by ohashi »

rwhitman wrote: post #9

I have no love for Media Temple, but have so many client sites there that this really affects me. Just when I thought MT was improving they go and do this. That line about it staying "independent" is total crap. I stupidly got locked into Outright and now a year or so after their acquisition by GoDaddy its now magically "GoDaddy Online Bookkeeping" and they want to link it with my GoDaddy account. Independent my ass.…

It's always interesting to hear people talking about trends they see in a web hosting company. The first thing I do is check and see if their experience actually matches what I see in the data.

http://reviewsignal.com/webhosting/company/23/mediatemple/ (click 'Trends')

I don't see much evidence of 'improving' but it looks fairly stable. It will be very interesting to watch what happens after today though.

I've been watching http://reviewsignal.com/webhosting/company/33/asmallorange/ because they are in a similar situation but half a year ahead of MT. They were bought out by EIG (Endurance International Group - which own HostGator, BlueHost, Host Monster, etc) back in March. They've been run independently and their service seems to have improved (cue EIG hate here). It's easy to craft stories, but I always like to see the data.

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