As of last Friday, I am no longer hosted at Media Temple. I enjoyed the service at Media Temple, but missed the familiarity and features of cPanel. Up until last year, I use to host all my sites with HostGator and now I’m on my back way to them.
HostGator had an amazing Black Friday special where all their hosting packages were 50% off, so I took advantage of the sale and hopped aboard. I signed up for their business plan, which I wanted for the dedicated IP incase I need to do any SSL connections in the future.
From VPS back down to Shared
On Media Temple I was on a VE server, which is essentially a VPS striped bare. With a VE server you can control exactly what you want to have on your server, but more importantly, what you do not.
While I really enjoyed having that control, there were issues. The main issue is that I’m not a Linux Guru, so I had to Google lots to find out how to do the simplest of tasks. This lead to many problems with the configuration of the server, which actually broke my WordPress automatic updates.
I decided I was no ready for that pure Linux experience yet, and so I downgraded myself back to a shared plan. I would still recommend a Media Temple VE for anyone who had the Linux knowledge, and wants a little more control. For $30 a month, you really can’t go wrong.
I find the products, pricing and support at HostGator to be all top notch. I am very happy to have them as an affilate for this site, and I hope many of you will give them a chance and try out one of their shared or VPS hosting packages.
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