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I could really use some sage advise on moving a client to Media Temple.

Since Media Temple’s introduction of its Grid System, I’ve been weary to move any clients there because of some of the poor reviews of the system, but recently I’ve been hearing/reading that they have improved their system. I read some of the posts on this forum but didn’t get to much information to satisfy my curiosity. So could anyone with some Media Temple experience help me out by answering some questions.

1. How was or is your experience with Media Temple?
2. Did you have any problems with EE on their GS (installation, performance, multiple sites)?
3. Do you have a favorite host other than (mt) or EngineHosting?

Thanks for your insight,
David

I would also be curious about people’s impressions, for similar reasons.

Personally, I haven’t had any problems on either account I’m working with. But then, the old hosts I was with sucked. Horribly. Anything would be better. 😛

Seriously. I’d have to be on a web server hosted on Kafka’s execution machine to be worse.

As long as you are using a shared hosting server, it’s all much of a muchness. What counts is the support you get. I have been with Dreamhost for 3+ years, hosting about 15 sites and although they have had their teething problems, they have been brilliant in communication and support.
Something else to consider:
Mail servers are another kettle of fish and if you or your clients are going to broadcast mailing campaigns, I would advise to use specialised companies like campaignmonitor as their daily business is to keep their mail servers clean from Spam listing.
Good luck :cheese:

For my more personal hosting I have been using A Small Orange for a few years now, and they have been absolutely top notch (I’ve gone through a few and they have been by far the best—but I haven’t been hosting super-high traffic or massively db-intensive sites with them). Fantastic service, minimal downtime. Etc.

I could really use some sage advise on moving a client to Media Temple.

Since Media Temple’s introduction of its Grid System, I’ve been weary to move any clients there because of some of the poor reviews of the system, but recently I’ve been hearing/reading that they have improved their system. I read some of the posts on this forum but didn’t get to much information to satisfy my curiosity. So could anyone with some Media Temple experience help me out by answering some questions.

1. How was or is your experience with Media Temple?
2. Did you have any problems with EE on their GS (installation, performance, multiple sites)?
3. Do you have a favorite host other than (mt) or EngineHosting?

Thanks for your insight,
David

I guess the first thing you should ask yourself is “Do you have a reason for grid serving?”. Generally those accounts aren’t for a regular web site. They’re built for extremely high availability and instant scaling. If you don’t need it, there’s no reason to use it. You just introduce more options for problems. Grid serving works a lot like clustering does. Well not really but the concept works somewhat the same. Most big virtual hosts use clusters so you’re going to get redundancy and expandability with almost any of them. Others use multiple servers with limited customers on them. So there are benefits to both.

Myself I would think you’d be better served on a regular hosting company. As long as you don’t have a big or busy website someone like Dreamhost is great. If your site is really busy or prone to get posted on fark, slashdot or other huge sites, consider elsewhere. They are notorious for killing sites when they beging to consume resources. And it says this right in their ToS.

A small orange has a great reputation and I don’t know that I’ve ever heard a bad word about them.

Hostgator also has a great reputation. Their stuff is all hosted at ThePlanet/EV1 so the infrastrcuture and upstream provider access is top notch.

In reality, the world of virtual hosting is hit and miss. many people find their service is much better with really small companies. Availability of service assistance is much higher usually, and your support can be very quick.

take your time and look around a little. If you have more than one domain do some research with one. I own a hosting company now but I don’t do virtual hosting anymore. I can tell you without question there are thousands of hosts out there that will be perfect for what you’re requesting. Many more good ones than bad.

See, I tried to move to Dreamhost first, but the second I installed ExpressionEngine and uploaded my data, the site dropped to a crawl.

Granted, this is a site that has been around since 96, and has been running EE since the great MovableType exodus… ;P