Comments on: New Hosting For Four Pillars – Media Temple

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 01:58:29 +0000

Glad to hear it Dale – I won’t hesitate to recommend the $20 option as well.

By: Dale Dietrich

Dale Dietrich — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:36:47 +0000

As an update, I’ve been using the $20 MT option to host several small blogs now since my first post above and I’ve had no problems at all. I’m very happy with MT so far.

By: Four Pillars

Four Pillars — Wed, 06 May 2009 02:25:48 +0000

That’s great to hear Dale – I agree. I love their customer service and the email they send is great as well.

I had an memory issue which involved some plugins and they sent an email with a whole pile of suggestions about how to improve blog performance. None of which I’ve done of course, but still – it was nice.

By: Dale Dietrich

Dale Dietrich — Tue, 05 May 2009 15:59:19 +0000

Just as an update, I’ve now had http://www.daleispher.com, http://www.wishhh.com and http://www.daledietrich.com running on my $20 a month plan without glitches. I’m also hosting three friends websites on the service. No problems of any kind after I figured out how to get it all running.

And their customer support is ridiculously good. Save for one guy who seemed a tad clueless, the 10 other times I called in with questions, they solved all my problems and answered all my questions. And afterwards they send you and email with a summary of the discussion and all the solutions to the problems. How great is that!

Can’t recommend them enough.

…Dale

By: Four Pillars

Four Pillars — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 02:57:19 +0000

Penelope – thanks for the info.

By: Penelope @ Pecuniarities

Penelope @ Pecuniarities — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 20:41:20 +0000

I’ve been with MT grid service since October 2008 and am very happy with it. It’s a huge improvement from where I used to be – ixwebhosting. I pay $10 more per month now, but it’s worth not having so much downtime and database timeouts.

My blog used to go down whenever it just started seeing StumbleUpon traffic. Drove me nuts. And that was with caching.

By: Four Pillars

Four Pillars — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 12:29:25 +0000

Dave – yes, moving is always a pain!

When you mention size, what kind of stats are you talking about? ie how many uniques per day?

By: DaveZatz

DaveZatz — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 11:43:11 +0000

One more stat – a blog double my size and with a forum is on the same plan as I. However, with the $50 DV plan there’s really no worry of overages and most of MT’s issues seem related to the Grid Service. For Dale, GS should be more than adequate. I’ve thought about migrating to DV, but moving is a pain and the DV option requires more involvement in server management.

By: Four Pillars

Four Pillars — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 23:59:43 +0000

Dave and Dale – I hadn’t heard anything bad about the $20 option until Pinyo mentioned it – but like I said, I knew people who had used the $50 option and were very happy with it.

This type of data is all anecdotal so who knows? I could very well have been better off with the $20 option. Dale – please let me know how it works out – good or bad. I’m not opposed to downgrading to the $20 option at some point if it makes sense.

By: DaveZatz

DaveZatz — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 22:43:43 +0000

Just to clarify, I had the $20 plan for about 18 months and then a year ago MediaTemple had me add a dedicated mySQL container for another $20/mo. Every now and then I have GPU overages, but not often and not much. I could reduce the database calls – removing the need for the mySQL container and avoiding overages most likely by running the wp-supercache stuff. I also pre-pay the normally monthly GS which brings it under $20/mo.

Over the 2.5 years I’ve been with MT, I’ve been mostly satisfied. Their phone support is OUTSTANDING. Seems like we’ve had more maintenance and unplanned outages in 2009 which have irked me. But not enough to make a move…