GoDaddy Buys Media Temple

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Post by recusancy » Tue, Oct 15, 2013, 4:17 PM UTC

GoDaddy Buys Media Temple
techcrunch.com

Re: GoDaddy Buys Media Temple

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Post by thejosh » Tue, Oct 15, 2013, 4:28 PM UTC

Wonder how much for?

And that 88% of their "technical audience" will like the GoDaddy purchase?

Re: GoDaddy Buys Media Temple

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Post by recusancy » Tue, Oct 15, 2013, 4:29 PM UTC

Media Temple's brand destroyed by one press release.

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Post by thebiglebrewski » Tue, Oct 15, 2013, 4:31 PM UTC

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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Post by jcomis » Tue, Oct 15, 2013, 4:34 PM UTC

ugh. I don't like this. I liked MT. I just don't like GoDaddy and the way they do business (example: their ceo shooting elephants, their ads, the way they squat domains, they supported SOPA, etc) and do not wish to be their customer, ever. Wonder how many people feel the same as I do?

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Post by chasing » Tue, Oct 15, 2013, 4:34 PM UTC

April Fools! Wait...

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Post by jmduke » Tue, Oct 15, 2013, 4:35 PM UTC

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.

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Post by mtMattNL » Tue, Oct 15, 2013, 4:35 PM UTC

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.

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Post by rwhitman » Tue, Oct 15, 2013, 4:35 PM UTC

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. So now GoDaddy has all my business records sitting next to my MT accounts, old domain names etc. Ugh

Re: GoDaddy Buys Media Temple

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Post by atourgates » Tue, Oct 15, 2013, 4:36 PM UTC

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.