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Re: GoDaddy Buys Media Temple

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Post by rhizome »

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.…

A well-engineered deployment framework and backup regime should let you move sites to new hosts with a minimum of headaches (if not a minimum of time). Heck, an enterprising engineer could probably whip up a third-party site mover that uses some combination of limited DB privs, temporary SSH keys, etc. to move entire domains around.

You're right that any "things are gonna stay awesome!" through an acquisition is pipe talk. It's just a lie in an attempt to minimize churn.

Re: GoDaddy Buys Media Temple

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Post by mtMattNL »

codereflection wrote: post #40

I wonder how this is going to affect the jquery.com site, which has been hosted on MT forever. I have a strong hatred for GoDaddy, and will never consider Media Temple for any of their services now. Sorry MT guys, I just hate GoDaddy THAT much.

I get where the strong feelings come from, but time does change things (be it better or worse). We think they are going in the right direction, and we're going to work on getting even better.

Re: GoDaddy Buys Media Temple

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Post by codereflection »

mtMattNL wrote: post #92
codereflection wrote: post #40

I wonder how this is going to affect the jquery.com site, which has been hosted on MT forever. I have a strong hatred for GoDaddy, and will never consider Media Temple for any of their services now. Sorry MT guys, I just hate GoDaddy THAT much.

I get where the strong feelings come from, but time does change things (be it better or worse). We think they are going in the right direction, and we're going to work on getting even better.

It's good that you guys are at least seeing these reactions right up front, so you can hopefully make some headway in restoring faith. There have been many such acquisitions that the public frowned upon, but ended up not being so bad after all (for example, when Salesforce bought Heroku). Best of luck to you.

Re: GoDaddy Buys Media Temple

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Post by vhost- »

GoDaddy has repeatedly blocked my domain transfers, had customer service call and harass me about moving domains out of their control, and didn't listen to a word I said about the elephant scandal when they called me.

I still, to this day, get calls from GoDaddy even though my last domain (which was blocked from being transferred for many months) left their hands last year.

No way am I ever going to trust them, or any company they own again.

Re: GoDaddy Buys Media Temple

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Post by petercooper »

SmileyKeith wrote: post #47

I've been using Linode and DigitalOcean with great success if anyone is looking for a recommendation.

This will sound a bit silly but as a customer of both, I gotta confess I'd feel a lot happier if they pledged not to sell out to a company like GoDaddy.. ;-)

Re: GoDaddy Buys Media Temple

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Post by mtMattNL »

nwh wrote: post #65
mtMattNL wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We are well aware of their past, but we're also well aware of what they've been doing to improve their business. Check out our FAQ http://weblog.mediatemple.net/2013/10/15/faqs-about-the-goda...

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.

Re: GoDaddy Buys Media Temple

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Post by Yhippa »

MartinCron wrote: post #48
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.

I didn't even know that GoDaddy was doing a redesign and new marketing push. I went to their site and was happy to see fewer bikini girls. However, in the about us, they still sound like they're trying to be brogrammer central: Like a Stanford dorm room on steroids, our Sunnyvale office is 40,000 square-feet of Bay Area badassery, brimming with some of the biggest brains on the planet, dreaming up digital masterpiece…

These guys sound like the Hooters of the technology world.

Re: GoDaddy Buys Media Temple

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Post by alxndr »

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

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

That is exactly the kind of information that your customers want to know.
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