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Media Temple's stand on SOPA

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27 pointsbtilly6 comments

I realize that GoDaddy has reversed their position on SOPA. However, to me and to many others the damage has been done. I've been with Media Temple for a couple of years now and have been extremely happy with the service and support. On the other hand, GoDaddy has been nothing but disappointing. This is just the culmination of 5 years of frustration.

We the consumer have enormous power over these rigid companies with interests that aren't inline with their customers.

They really are an excellent company. I currently host my startup with them and I couldn't be more pleased. Glad to see they're against SOPA as well.

I was always pretty happy with the stability and speed of the DVs, but the prices are a lot higher than you can get elsewhere (linode, for example). You can get a dedicated dual quad with a heap of RAM and an SSD at a low price place like Server Beach for the same price as MT's 4 GB DV.

I also agree. I've been with them for 10+ years and only had 2 or 3 issues which were solved in a few hours. Great support and an excellent company.

I was only with them for six months and after that time they managed to irreversibly destroy everything I had been working on, including the backups I'd paid for. (They said that the backups were on a different server which also happened to catastrophically fail at the same time...)

I want to love MediaTemple, and I agree that their support is excellent, and I accept that terrible accidents happen, but I can never bring myself to use them in a production environment ever again. (The project I was hosting with them was in a sort of private beta, and although I had second backups of the code I had very very foolishly trusted the Snapshot backups with all my user data. Lesson learned.)

Anyway, I'm just one dissenting data point in a giant sea of happy customers. I don't mean to dissuade anyone from using MT--just please don't be any less paranoid about their service than the rest.

Seconded. I've been using Media Temple for a couple years now and they have always been pleasant to deal with.

GoDaddy has always been sketchy.

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