Comments on: Another reason of using MediaTemple as a Web host!

By: Why is Bluehost better web host | -| Life Rocks! 2.0 |-

Why is Bluehost better web host | -| Life Rocks! 2.0 |- — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 13:00:43 +0000

[...] with Dreamhost and his blog was not indexed by search engines. Mayank from Tiposaurus says that his blog was down for 9 hours with Media Temple and for this MT has provided additional 2 months of [...]

By: Nirmal

Nirmal — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 04:49:06 +0000

Mayank,
MT is undoubtedly one of the best, but I have a few points to tell here.

1. MT has given you 2 months extra, but I would still prefer the 9 hours they cut for a blog as readers are important for me.

2. MT is very very costly for a blogger, may be established bloggers like you can afford, for me its out of reach with $240 per year.

3. And with this $240 per year, 9 hours of downtime is unacceptable. For me bluehost has not given me more than 0.5 hour of downtime in the past 5 months or so.

4. MT support is not that great, (not my experience), I had read in Arpit’s blog.

Well I dont say one host is best and others are not good, we need to compare host based on the value for money they give.
$240 per year and 9 hours of downtime is not acceptable for me under any circumstances, even if they give me one year free.

Just my thought! :-)

By: Jon Holato

Jon Holato — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 21:01:29 +0000

Thanks for the reference and I’m glad you’re happy with Media Temple. It’s by far the greatest Web host out there. Their performance is nothing but stellar and their customer service is excellent. :)

By: TipsoSaurus

TipsoSaurus — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 21:36:56 +0000

@ Vaibhav : Yeah I’m glad that they did it :) Some time patience pays !

@ Haris : Not sure about bluehost. I have no experience with them. i’ve heard good things about them but I just couldn’t take chance with any service.

@ Ram : well, just email them politely but they won’t give it to you if you were not hit by the scheduled downtime.

@ Terence : Well, I read the whole post and knew that you were hosted at ANHosting. Well, as far as your point which is about hosting the business sites or the sites which are critical are concerned then I can say that if my blog network grows then I’ll probably switch to MT’s better plans instead of the GS plan.

By: Terence Chang

Terence Chang — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 21:14:03 +0000

Thank you for the link.

To clarify my hosting services. My TerenceChang.com is hosted on ANHosting.com. I can afford to have my personal blog going down for few hours, but I can’t afford to have my commercial web site goes down for one minutes.

So I have commercial web site hosted on MT. I hope this makes it clear.

@Haris & @Ram: Both dreamhost and bluehost don’t have dedicated server plan. For shared hosting, ANHosting is a lot of better than those two. What ANHosting have while other don’t is that I can upgrade from my Shared Hosting to Dedicated hosting with almost no downtime.

Think about switching from one hosting provider to the other? That’s really pain in the neck. So I pick the hosting company that I have chance to growth with.

Good luck on all your hosting sites.

By: ram

ram — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 20:50:35 +0000

Hey i had bad experience with dreamhost for one of mysite. my blog is hosted at MT but i didn’t get the 2 months compensation.

By: Haris

Haris — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 17:12:06 +0000

How about BlueHost? They aren’t bad either.

By: Vaibhav

Vaibhav — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 14:48:08 +0000

:D, mayank it so true that one who is thinking of even going with dream host might not go for it. great to hear that media temple provided 2 months of free hosting with 9 hours of downtime..