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Re: GoDaddy Buys Media Temple

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Post by ktsmith »

larrys wrote: post #133
rwhitman wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're never going to win our hearts or minds here. MT is dead to me now. There is no one web technology professionals hate more in the world than GoDaddy. I can't think of a vendor I despise more. Also I'm an MT customer of 8 years and probably referred tens of thousands of business to MT over the last decade. Dead to me . Thats how much I hate GoDaddy.

"There is no one web technology professionals hate more in the world than GoDaddy." By the way back in the day, before there was a godaddy and during godaddy's rise to "power" that crown (as a despired domain registrar) went to Network Solutions. I wonder how many HN'ers are aware of that?

I still don't like Network Solutions but it's so rare that I run into anyone using their services it has become a non issue.

Re: GoDaddy Buys Media Temple

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Post by patrickdavey »

meritt wrote: post #35
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.

I've been using site5.com for a few years now for this sort of hosting (small clients & family/friends). I've been happy with them.

Definitely agree with this one. I'm just using their $110 USD offering - as many sites as I like, databases, ssh access... git, can deploy rails apps too if needed.

At somepoint I'll have to get down and learn how to properly secure a box and go with Digital Ocean I suspect - but site5 definitely hits the spot for me in the meantime.

Also, their support is fast and excellent.

And no, I don't get any sort of commission or are employed by them :)

Re: GoDaddy Buys Media Temple

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Post by c0ur7n3y »

akinder wrote: post #101
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.

I like Digital Ocean and Gandi.net

+1 for Gandi.net. Great experience with them.

Re: GoDaddy Buys Media Temple

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Post by sandstrom »

mtMattNL wrote: post #38

I was going to post person by person, but I figured a general post with all the info would be a better option. So here it goes... We're definitely excited about the move. We know GoDaddy may have had a not so stellar reputation in the past, but we're very happy with the changes they've made this year. Along with that, we are very happy to get the funding and resources we need to make bigger and better products. We wa…

I appreciate that you take time commenting here.

But just as some crimes aren't ever forgiven, I think few people will ever forgive GoDaddy (and rightly so).

A few things that I think is despised: - Support for SOPA - Constant upsales, borderline spam - Being against Net Neutrality - Support for PIPA - A marketing strategy which begins and ends with biki-girls

Complaints about bad performance, bad support and expense products are also common.[1]

As an extra bonus go Daddy's founder, Bob Parsons, goes to Africa every year to kill elephants who he says are ruining crops (others say he's a rich idiot American who likes shooting elephants for fun).[2][3]

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_Daddy

[1] http://www.bbb.org/central-northern-western-arizona/Business...

[2] http://kottke.org/11/12/the-internets-go-daddy-issues

[3] http://abcnews.go.com/Business/daddy-ceo-bob-parsons-africa-...

Re: GoDaddy Buys Media Temple

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Post by slig »

mitchwainer wrote: post #108
anu_gupta wrote: post #14

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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

We just issued a $10 promo code today on Twitter for anyone that is interested in trying out DigitalOcean. Promo Code: DIVEIN10

I created an account and entered the promo code. Will the credit in my account expire? I'm asking because I'll only have time to play with DO in a couple of months.

Thanks!

Re: GoDaddy Buys Media Temple

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Post by jpea »

tomelders wrote: post #123
mtMattNL wrote: post #8

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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.

Well, the results are in, everybody hates GoDaddy, although that can't be surprising to you, and I have to agree with the sentiment, they're a very scummy company. I'll be honest, from the outside looking in it looks like MT has sold out to cash in. Surely you were aware of their reputation and their standing in the development community? I have to ask, how much did you consider what the reaction to this news would b…

At least they signed on the line before the news broke. And hope that it was a cash-only deal, since the value had probably dropped once that went to the wire.

Re: GoDaddy Buys Media Temple

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Post by sandstrom »

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.

A few more alternatives:

- http://gandi.net

- http://brightbox.com/

- AWS S3/Cloudfront (for static sites)

- http://wordpress.com

Re: GoDaddy Buys Media Temple

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Post by chrismonsanto »

larrys wrote: post #133
rwhitman wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're never going to win our hearts or minds here. MT is dead to me now. There is no one web technology professionals hate more in the world than GoDaddy. I can't think of a vendor I despise more. Also I'm an MT customer of 8 years and probably referred tens of thousands of business to MT over the last decade. Dead to me . Thats how much I hate GoDaddy.

"There is no one web technology professionals hate more in the world than GoDaddy." By the way back in the day, before there was a godaddy and during godaddy's rise to "power" that crown (as a despired domain registrar) went to Network Solutions. I wonder how many HN'ers are aware of that?

What was weird about Network Solutions was that they were much more expensive than their competitors, yet much worse than their competitors. I didn't know anyone who used them, and I'm surprised to learn that they still exist.

Re: GoDaddy Buys Media Temple

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Post by jpea »

Considering that developers are usually the ones that recommend hosting decisions to their clients (since the clients generally have no clue about who to go with), they just chopped off the main artery of their business with this sale. Kudos to the MT founders, but GoDaddy just overpaid for something that might be a skeleton company within a few months.

Re: GoDaddy Buys Media Temple

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Post by astrowilliam »

mtMattNL wrote: post #137
ISeemToBeAVerb wrote: post #132

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The thing is, you are who you associate yourself with. Until GoDaddy actually proves they've turned a new leaf, I think you're going to have a hard time convincing your customers (myself included) that this acquisition is about anything other than money. It takes momentous effort to turn around a notoriously bad brand, and with such fierce competition, there will need to be some serious benefits to convince me to sti…

I see where you are coming from, and money is definitely important. That cash flow is going to help us build our staff and our products. We understand the skepticism, but we are working on making things a lot better here.

Speaking as an independent web developer and having hosted with MT in the past with a higher level product, I can tell you that I will not be coming back any time soon.

I am going to take the wait and see approach as I don't trust GoDaddy.

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