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Now I'll be spending my morning creating a plan to transfer our clients (mostly small to medium businesses) that host on MediaTemple, to a new host.

Any recommendations on a host that offers similar quality/features to Media Temple's Grid/Shared hosting?

Specifically:

* About $20/mo

* An Easy to Use Dashboard

* The Ability to Reasonably Handle Traffic Bursts

* Decent Support

And, of course, not owned by GoDaddy.

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Random suggestion - check out NearlyFreeSpeech (https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/).

I use them for a few sites and like their vibe and offerings. It's mostly pay-per-traffic I think. The dashboard isn't really a dashboard, more of a set of config screens. I find it intuitive but may not be what you're looking for.

You can easily set up an account and transfer sites over.

I've used them for low traffic static sites, but i don't recommend it for anything more complex. There are few configuration options, but very sparse.

not for geek

I like Digital Ocean and Gandi.net

+1 for Gandi.net. Great experience with them.

A few more alternatives:

- http://gandi.net

- http://brightbox.com/

- AWS S3/Cloudfront (for static sites)

- http://wordpress.com

I haven't looked at gandi.net before, their prices are reasonable and they have a very clean layout.

Unfortunately, the second I noticed their motto (no bullshit) I realized I cannot use them for our clients. Sigh :(

Ok, full disclosure: I work for Gandi. We realize that motto is something you can't say on the radio, but it's so true, we just have to say it. We are a small, tough, smart company, the kind we want to work for. We do offer a full API for resellers, so you could white-box the solution if you wanted.

I'm now on the lookout too.

Early this year I already migrated 2 DV accounts due to poor customer service, now happily hosted Linode. Now I'll move 2 GS accounts for family and a close friend, but this is no Linode solution.

I've been using site5.com for a few years now for this sort of hosting (small clients & family/friends). I've been happy with them.

Definitely agree with this one. I'm just using their $110 USD offering - as many sites as I like, databases, ssh access... git, can deploy rails apps too if needed.

At somepoint I'll have to get down and learn how to properly secure a box and go with Digital Ocean I suspect - but site5 definitely hits the spot for me in the meantime.

Also, their support is fast and excellent.

And no, I don't get any sort of commission or are employed by them :)

My startup tracks which web hosts people actually like and why. Take a look at the data: http://reviewsignal.com/webhosting/compare

It's hard to say which hosts are similar because MT is a hybrid between shared/cloud. I don't know any other hosts which have a similar mysql grid container that scales (except maybe Amazon RDS).

As far as dashboards most use cPanel or Plesk. If you don't like those, the field gets a lot smaller.

I really like Digital Ocean.

Also unlimited domain names and a huge amount of storage.

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