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GoDaddy Buys Media Temple

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Re: GoDaddy Buys Media Temple

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Post by josefresco »

jmduke wrote: post #7

Makes sense. GoDaddy's been trying to rebrand pretty heavily, what with the redesign, new marketing push, etc., and the article frames MT as a company that isn't exactly doing great financially. Pretty boggling statistic: GoDaddy has four thousand employees. Twitter has around half that.

Not mind boggling when you realize that GD actually sells stuff. Therefore they have sales, support etc. Twitter while popular, is only now starting to actually sell "stuff" ie advertising.

Look at Groupon as an example of real world staffing gone awry.

Re: GoDaddy Buys Media Temple

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Post by anu_gupta »

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.

It's not even about what GoDaddy plans to do with (mt). It's more about how lots of people feel about doing business with GoDaddy.

Re: GoDaddy Buys Media Temple

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Post by uptown »

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.

What you may not appreciate is that the GoDaddy brand is toxic.

Whether it's your advertising, your support for SOPA, the check-out maze, or the ex-CEO killing elephants - it's a brand that many informed consumers have chosen not to do business with.

Re: GoDaddy Buys Media Temple

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Post by atourgates »

acallaghan wrote: post #13
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.

If you're looking for WP hosting without the need to manage a server, we've been having a good experience with Synthesis' managed Wordpress hosting: http://websynthesis.com/

The only downside is that since their pricing is based on the number of domains/installs ($27 for a single domain/install), it'll get pricy for multiple small WP sites on a single account.

Re: GoDaddy Buys Media Temple

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Post by rwhitman »

uptown wrote: post #11

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

The problem is that MT has the best shared host dashboard control panel out there. The grid shared hosting option historically sucked (can't tell you how many fires I've had to fight because of prolonged grid outages) but damn, that slick control panel makes it so easy to spool up a site for a client in a hurry, or set up a new subdomain that it was worth the pain of periodic unannounced downtime. I loved being able to get a site up on MT Grid in 5 mins flat

If there is anything thats as easy to cruise through and still reliable, I'd love to hear about it.

Re: GoDaddy Buys Media Temple

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Post by nwh »

nhangen wrote: post #15

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?

Depends how managed you need it, but Digital Ocean have been getting nothing but praise of late. They're incredibly cost effective too.

Re: GoDaddy Buys Media Temple

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Post by mildtrepidation »

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.

If you believe that, then for your sake, I hope you're right. But this is worse than being acquired by Yahoo; the product may last longer, but it's immediately lost so much good will that whatever leverage that brought to the table with GoDaddy is not likely to last long.

Re: GoDaddy Buys Media Temple

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Post by thebiglebrewski »

mtMattNL wrote: post #16
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.

Sure, as someone above mentioned though, unfortunately GoDaddy is a toxic brand. I do NOT want to be associated with a brand that doesn't support net neutrality and was in favor of SOPA and PIPA. I'm sure you guys will do fine anyway, but I'm pretty sad I'm going to probably have to abandon MediaTemple in the long run....

Re: GoDaddy Buys Media Temple

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Post by antr »

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.

I'm now on the lookout too.

Early this year I already migrated 2 DV accounts due to poor customer service, now happily hosted Linode. Now I'll move 2 GS accounts for family and a close friend, but this is no Linode solution.

Re: GoDaddy Buys Media Temple

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Post by thebiglebrewski »

rwhitman wrote: post #25
uptown wrote: post #11

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

The problem is that MT has the best shared host dashboard control panel out there. The grid shared hosting option historically sucked (can't tell you how many fires I've had to fight because of prolonged grid outages) but damn, that slick control panel makes it so easy to spool up a site for a client in a hurry, or set up a new subdomain that it was worth the pain of periodic unannounced downtime. I loved being able…

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