After many misfortunes finally found Media Temple
If you have had it with cheap shared hosting Media Temple's Grid Servers is definitely a step up
A satisfied Media Temple Customer
I have had a lot of misfortunes lately with cheap shared hosts that would not be responsive to my tickets or would try to hide their failure to address issues and not giving me the level of service I was expecting in general. You can read more on my blog about 3 web hosting reviews and misfortunes
A common problem with shared web hosting this days is their failure to allocate and enforce/monitor the shared resources equally. This coupled with their tendency at overselling their resources results most of the time to the bad neighboor effect. Which means onne bad neighboor eating all the server's resources and its could be enough to make your site crawl to its knees from resource starvation.
Enter Media Temple Grid Service
Its about the only company I know that has strictly enforced resource limits. The limits are measured in GPUs Grid Processing Units. 1000 GPUs is the least processor power one can get with media temple's gridservice and that is equivalent to running a continuous 10% load on one processor for one month, which would be satisfactory for must site requirements. With MediaTemple I can monitor my own resource usage and I am sure my neighboors can do to and if they don't MediaTemple does.
They charge $20/month but if you pay in advance for the year the price goes down to $16.67/month and if you apply the "Special offer code" kirupa07 (surfstation no longer works) the price can decrease by another %15 which brings the monthly cost down to $14.16/month !!!
Even if you like to pay month by month the Special Offer code can give you a 15% discount and bring the service to $17/month.
If you do decide to register with them please use ezbytes.net as the "Referral domain". I will be entitled to a free month of service and it would be greatly appreciated. I have also included it as an affiliate link so you don't have to enter it if you follow the link above.
If you want you can check the speed of the servers by checking two of my sites that run on the grid service http://www.gamesonline4free.net and http://geoland.org.
A common problem with shared web hosting this days is their failure to allocate and enforce/monitor the shared resources equally. This coupled with their tendency at overselling their resources results most of the time to the bad neighboor effect. Which means onne bad neighboor eating all the server's resources and its could be enough to make your site crawl to its knees from resource starvation.
Enter Media Temple Grid Service
Its about the only company I know that has strictly enforced resource limits. The limits are measured in GPUs Grid Processing Units. 1000 GPUs is the least processor power one can get with media temple's gridservice and that is equivalent to running a continuous 10% load on one processor for one month, which would be satisfactory for must site requirements. With MediaTemple I can monitor my own resource usage and I am sure my neighboors can do to and if they don't MediaTemple does.
They charge $20/month but if you pay in advance for the year the price goes down to $16.67/month and if you apply the "Special offer code" kirupa07 (surfstation no longer works) the price can decrease by another %15 which brings the monthly cost down to $14.16/month !!!
Even if you like to pay month by month the Special Offer code can give you a 15% discount and bring the service to $17/month.
If you do decide to register with them please use ezbytes.net as the "Referral domain". I will be entitled to a free month of service and it would be greatly appreciated. I have also included it as an affiliate link so you don't have to enter it if you follow the link above.
If you want you can check the speed of the servers by checking two of my sites that run on the grid service http://www.gamesonline4free.net and http://geoland.org.
Enter Media Temple Dedicated Virtual
Do you need more power ?
I have recently switched from the Grid Server to Dedicated Virtual server. Don't get me wrong GS was good for a hobbyist site like gamesonline4free with 200-300 visitors a day. But recently its traffic has grown to 2000+ visitors per day and in total all the sites I wanted to host where receiving more than 10000+ visitors a day.
The new DV is really a Virtual Private Server (VPS) with Plesk allowing 30 domains on it (more domains can be purchased later) which has proven very reliable for commercial sites such as myHellas.com.
I found the Plesk Panel to be easy to handle (being a long time CPanel user) and since the server is almost 100% managed I have not had to do any tweaking to it (it runs perfectly as is).
Well if you do need the extra power DV might be just what you need. Look at more technical details on their website here
The DV has a regular price of $50/month but if purchased annually it comes down to $41.67/month. Using the aforementioned "Special offer code" kirupa07 can give you a $7.50 discount for each month or if purchase a yearly plan it will give you a discount of $75 which brings the cost down to $425/year (just $35.41/month !!).
Including ezbytes.net as the "referral domain" (or using this link) will entitled me to a free month's hosting and would be greatly appreciated.
The new DV is really a Virtual Private Server (VPS) with Plesk allowing 30 domains on it (more domains can be purchased later) which has proven very reliable for commercial sites such as myHellas.com.
I found the Plesk Panel to be easy to handle (being a long time CPanel user) and since the server is almost 100% managed I have not had to do any tweaking to it (it runs perfectly as is).
Well if you do need the extra power DV might be just what you need. Look at more technical details on their website here
The DV has a regular price of $50/month but if purchased annually it comes down to $41.67/month. Using the aforementioned "Special offer code" kirupa07 can give you a $7.50 discount for each month or if purchase a yearly plan it will give you a discount of $75 which brings the cost down to $425/year (just $35.41/month !!).
Including ezbytes.net as the "referral domain" (or using this link) will entitled me to a free month's hosting and would be greatly appreciated.
Another satisfied customer of Media Temple
$40 from mediatemple and user registrations
update on the mediatemple hosting situation and how to code user registrations
Runtime: 8:11
8927 views
10 Comments:
New Guestbook
Like this lens? Want to share your feedback, or just give a thumbs up? Be the first to submit a blurb!
