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Re: GoDaddy Buys Media Temple

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Post by thebiglebrewski »

ohashi wrote: post #118
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...

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Thanks, this is really helpful!

Re: GoDaddy Buys Media Temple

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Post by habith »

sandstrom wrote: post #147
atourgates wrote: post #10

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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

I haven't looked at gandi.net before, their prices are reasonable and they have a very clean layout.

Unfortunately, the second I noticed their motto (no bullshit) I realized I cannot use them for our clients. Sigh :(

Re: GoDaddy Buys Media Temple

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Post by icedchai »

chrismonsanto wrote: post #148
larrys wrote: post #133

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"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.

Seriously? Network Solutions was the original domain registrar.

Re: GoDaddy Buys Media Temple

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Post by sandstrom »

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

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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.

I agree that there are other (more valid) points on which to criticise them.

However, Bob Parson is still chairman and the largest individual shareholder. I can see why people may not want to support him financially [based on principles, he's rich already].

Re: GoDaddy Buys Media Temple

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Post by dotBen »

thenomad wrote: post #81
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

Just second-opinioning this one: I've run Wordpress sites on WPEngine (awesome, just awesome) and Linode (great servers, obviously don't have the complete-hassle-removal factor of WPEngine). I've run other sites on DigitalOcean (superb) and BigV (been a client of theirs for a decade now - also superb).

one of the founders of WP Engine here - just wanted to thank you for your kind words.

Re: GoDaddy Buys Media Temple

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Post by jamesbritt »

rwhitman wrote: post #74
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.

No. Sure you get more money, but this is going to be absolutely toxic to your company culture. Now every employee at the company has to wake up and know that they're going to work at GoDaddy, a company that supported SOPA and PIPA a company that was founded by an obnoxious redneck who has a video blog of exploited blonde bimbos doing comedy shtick, a company that took a successful female NASCAR racer and exploited he…

I'm pretty sure the female NASCAR driver was a knowing and willing participant who received compensation for her actions. So, not exploited.

Not that this discounts the scummery of GoDaddy.

Re: GoDaddy Buys Media Temple

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Post by thenomad »

dotBen wrote: post #155
thenomad wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just second-opinioning this one: I've run Wordpress sites on WPEngine (awesome, just awesome) and Linode (great servers, obviously don't have the complete-hassle-removal factor of WPEngine). I've run other sites on DigitalOcean (superb) and BigV (been a client of theirs for a decade now - also superb).

one of the founders of WP Engine here - just wanted to thank you for your kind words.

No worries - your service kicks ass. I like not having to manage my WP installs :)

Re: GoDaddy Buys Media Temple

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Post by larrys »

icedchai wrote: post #153
chrismonsanto wrote: post #148

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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.

Seriously? Network Solutions was the original domain registrar.

Original and only prior to ICANN.

Original price of a domain: free

Next price point a bit later $100: 2 years min ($50 per year)

Next a bit later $70: 2 years min ($35 per year)

Then came competition and prices dropped.

Little known fact: The first registrars that were accredited had to certify that they had no criminal record (any of the officers) and had to be a corporation and post $100,000 bond as well as other hurdles which were all put in place by Network Solutions to limit competition.

Out of NSI came Verisign which had to erect a "chinese wall" (iirc) in order to separate the "registry" from the "registrar". Verisign of course ended up selling off NS.

Re: GoDaddy Buys Media Temple

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Post by larrys »

bbx wrote: post #45

Media Temple was the first hosting service I remembered the name. It was around 2007, when I started web design. I was immediately fascinated by their brand, their design, and their philosophy. It looked honest and reliable. I actually never had the opportunity to become a customer because I didn't need an American-based server (I live in Europe)... Well... until a month ago. I finally had a project that required a s…

I originally started using MT because it was what Techcrunch used at the time when they started and iirc a few years after.

Re: GoDaddy Buys Media Temple

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Post by mikeleeorg »

Tassels wrote: post #88
izolate wrote: post #87

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This is the most revealing part of the press release. The founders wanted to cash out. Let's not pretend this acquisition has everyone's best interests at heart. It only benefits GoDaddy and MT's founders, everyone else gets to witness the end of MT.

They're sticking with virb. Check out http://blog.virb.com/post/64122176288/big-news-from-virb

This right here is the real story, I'm guessing. Can't say I blame them either. They probably wanted to move on and needed a soft landing spot for (mt). So after months of shopping around, GoDaddy perhaps made the sweetest deal.

Congrats to Virb and the founders next chapter there! This is the first I've heard of it and it sounds like a pretty neat service.

And good luck the team left at (mt) for managing what is going to be quite a storm of negative sentiment and customer departures.

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