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I was hoping to stick a wet finger in the air to get a feel for what’s hot in web hosting options for EE 2.x

I already know about EngineHosting but are there any notable hosting providers out there that we should be looking/relooking at?

I’m looking to move some clients to a new home.

Most of the clients need about 250GB of bandwidth and 30GB to 50GB of storage.

P.S. - Has MediaTemple improved their EE service?

I’ve hosted sites on dreamhost, mediatemple and linode all with ease.

It somewhat depends on what your client is looking for and the pros and cons of each.

To me: dreamhost is quality hosting, but I don’t really like the cpanel interface that it uses and has decent customer support;  Mediatemple has good customer support and a great interface for web admin type stuff but they have a more downtime than other hosts;  Linode is affordable, has lots of space, very reliable but doesn’t have any web admin interface and requires you to setup the server yourself.

I typically go with Mediatemple or linode, but again its really what works best for you client.  As for “improved EE service”, I’m not aware of anything specially any of those hosts do to optimize or improve EE sites in anyway.  As far as I know, EngineHosting is the only one that claims that.

Thanks bryanAXS.

MediaTemple is the first host that so many of my clients mention but I’ve read so many negative experiences of EE users that I have been hesitant. Downtime would be a huge issue. I suppose I should bite the bullet and eventually try it for first hand experience but first I have to find a guinea pig willing to take a chance.

I’ve never looked at Linode but will definitely check them out.

EngineHosting is intriguing but the pricing seems to be higher at scale. I wonder if there is someone secret sauce that puts EngineHosting way above other options.

No problem,

Yeah a lot of people hate on MT, but in my experience the downtime per month is very small, if any at all.  Sure other hosts may not have any downtime, compared to a vary small amount, but the overall client experience using MT is generally much higher.

If one of my clients is using MT (or any other host for that matter) complains about downtime and performance issues, I would usually recommend them to setup on Linode and run the web admin stuff themselves or hire me to do it for them.

Expression Engine has been known be a bit resource intensive (mainly MySQL) & is not ideal on the (gs) Grid-Service. We recommend that customers using EE do so on a (dv) Dedicated-Virtual or (ve) Server, as you have control of resource allotment & your server’s configuration.