7 Days ago I moved all of my sites and domains over to Media Temple. Media Temple is arguably the industry leader in grid hosting, not to be confused with cloud services.
So far I am very, very happy with their service. It is good to sit back and worry about the other aspects of business, and know that your hosting needs are taken care of. I do not need to worry about memory usage, bandwidth caps, CPU spikes, or anything.
I have moved hosting providers a lot in the past. I can say that my move to Media Temple was the easiest and smoothest yet. I used to prefer “professionally made” control panels like Plesk. Then I would just use remote access to control the server. Media Temple has the best of both worlds. You have root access, and their control panel is definitely top of the line. They have done a good job of putting any feature you need within the click of a button. Even complicated tasks like switching PHP versions for a specific domain is as easy as clicking a button.
With Media Temple to proof is in the pudding. Their control panel is never slow, and you have to figure that they are hosting it on their grid services themselves. I have dealt with hosting companies custom control panels in the past, usually they are slow and crappy.
The only trouble I had during setup was setting up Google Apps for my domains. The values you input into the DNS administrator are a little different than what you would insert into other control panels. Fortunately this article provides you with a very straight forward way to set it up. I lost email for about a half a day before I realized the values were different.
I have not activated my Ruby grid container yet, mostly because of a lack of time. I am very excited about the grid containers they offer. It is an added bonus to be able to code in Ruby on Rails.
All in all I am very happy with Media Temple, and you cannot beat the price. I plan to stay month to month for another three months, and then I can save even more by paying for a quarter or a year. Definitely check them out.
