Anyone use it?
I’m switching some hosted sites over from GoDaddy and am liking what I see so far.
I used to use it until I got my own 1/3rd rack.
Had no issues. Nice interface from what I remember and customer support was great.
They’ve been a nightmare for me.
If you’re just running non-ecommerce related sites it shouldn’t be an issue…BUT…
One of our biggest clients is a direct response marketing company that we setup online so Security + PCI compliance and all that FUN STUFF was a must. They were absolutely not willing to help us fix the security holes on their servers and said every problem we had was "beyond the scope of support." Which is funny because 1/2 the PCI compliance problems only THEY could fix (closing certain ports we didn’t even access to, etc) so we had to spend a lot of time going back and fourth with them and bring in 2 different linux admins (on our dime) to fix all the bullshit that shouldn’t have been a problem in the first place. The other thing I found funny is that they’re running some busted partial CentOS distro that doesn’t have 1/2 of the shit CentOS is supposed to have by default.
so like I said…if you’re running any kind of ecom where you need security I’d look elsewhere. Their customer support is awful and not willing to help.
I remember when all the major tech blogs seemed to use them. Techcrunch used to and their shit was down all the fucking time
A couple of years ago, all of the big design sites were using them.
There’s a reason most of the big blogs moved to WordPress.
MT had (has?) a lot of reliability issues.
i will host sites for free if you have a PR of 3 and link back to me in your footer
I have a rackspace cloud account with tons of bw left each month.
my sites are really niche and i dont need much bw for them
They have a really cool office space. I hope the web hosting service is just as cool…
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There’s a reason most of the big blogs moved to WordPress.
MT had (has?) a lot of reliability issues. |
This thread isn’t about movable type
But yeah mt sucks, but not as much as godaddy.
No issues yet for me
What alternatives are you guys using?
rackspace cloud sites:
I signed up when they were still a $100/m, now it’s $149/m
Customer service is the best I’ve seen (chat, call, email..)
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No issues yet for me
What alternatives are you guys using? |
Knownhost is the shit for VPS.
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rackspace cloud sites:
I signed up when they were still a $100/m, now it’s $149/m Customer service is the best I’ve seen (chat, call, email..) |
No SSH
Regular outages
Slow performance
Yeah don’t think so
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No SSH
Regular outages Slow performance Yeah don’t think so |
No SSH - true (i think we are talking about "shared hosting" type of environment, SSH access is the next level)
Regular outages - never had one. (had crazy traffic spikes for some clients, without any problems, think groupon)
Slow performance - again depends on what you are trying to host and for what type of traffic, within their resource limits, i believe it’s one of the best options.
every company has minor issues, at least they keep a log, unlike many others.
Google has one too:
Looks like there was an issue with Gmail a few days ago:
Would you consider gmail unreliable?