Media Temple Review: Everything you need to know

Overview: Media Temple is a forward thinking, customer oriented company that features a wide variety of hosting plans.

Pricing:

Grid Hosting: $16.67/mo for shared hosting.

WordPress Plan: $16.67/mo for WordPress hosting.

Developer VPS Level 1: $25.00/mo for VPS hosting.

Ideal Customer: Well established webmasters or businesses that don’t mind paying a premium price for premium hosting.

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Unique Features:

Virb Site Builder: When looking for web hosts for your website, you may notice that sometimes the initial stages of getting your website built and up and running can be the hardest part of starting a website. Whether you are looking to start a blog, a company website, or just want to display your creative skills to the world, getting it off the ground initially can be the hardest part. Learning how to use WordPress can take time and sometimes you want something out there as quickly and easily as possible.
That is where the Virb Site Builder from Media Temple can help. Virb is a unique site building tool offered by the web host Media Temple to assist people in designing their website easily and with little cost. It particularly suits professionals and creative people who want to express their brand nationally or internationally. The many unique offerings of this site building tool includes themes that are mobile responsive (meaning they look just as good on your cell phone as your laptop), in built SEO and HTML 5 templates to get your site seen across the big tangle of the world wide web, in built cloud hosting to ensure your site can take even the largest traffic load, integrated sharing all around your site in built, (such as with Facebook, Twitter, etc) meaning your site is geared to those who are willing to share it, together with an easy to use interface and fast and friendly support. On top of all this, with Virb, you are automatically provided with a custom domain to get you started and an unlimited number of pages to use.

Fully-Managed Cloud Hosting on Amazon: More and more businesses are now beginning to use Amazon’s Cloud for their day to day needs. Navigating through the Amazon Cloud, however, is not an easy feat, it can be confusing and complicated especially for businesses new to the concept. Now you may be one of two people. You may like to learn everything yourself from scratch, spending time and money attempting to understand concepts for the satisfaction of having a sense of control. On the other hand, you may be someone who likes to focus on what you are good at and prefer to apply your strengths where your strengths lie while allowing professions to take care of the rest.
That is where Media Temple’s fully managed cloud hosting service comes into play. It is being used by businesses, content creators, developers and agencies all across the world who want to leverage the power of Amazon Cloud and who want professionals to best run the somewhat complex technology associated with it. Media Temple’s Cloud Architects will set you up while their 24/7 certified SysAdmins will continue to support you. Some of the unique services Media Temple offers for managed cloud hosting includes helping you build an auto-scaling website, designing and building your perfect AWS cloud architecture, together with monitoring, backing up, optimizing, and analyzing your application regularly. Media Temple also offer a one on one free no obligation consultation for you and your business to see if it meets your needs.

TrueSpeed CDN: Media Temple now offers a content delivering network as an add-on to any of their hosting services to save time and bandwidth, which in turn allows your site to load much faster. A faster site means users are able to navigate it without needing to wait impatiently, and therefore creates happier and more satisfied users. Having recently partnered with SiteLock, Truespeed CDN now provides reduced bandwidth and load times, manual cache purging, fully secure encryption, as well as being able to support multiple websites. Truespeed CDN has a network of global data centers advantageously located around the world so that wherever you are located, you can take advantage of their high-speed loading. Truespeed CDN also provides intelligent caching and optimization in the form of static content caching, manual caching control, visitor side-caching, and content optimization.

Pros:

• Customer Support:Current customers rave about Media Temple’s support. Their U.S. based support teams are available 24/7/365 through chat, Twitter, phone, or email.
• Uptime Guarantee: Media Temple offers a 99.999% service Uptime Guarantee on their DV products. If they ever fall short, you get 20% of your monthly hosting fee back for each 20 minutes of downtime that month.
• Virb Website Builder: With responsive mobile themes, built in cloud hosting, and a simple interface Virb site builder makes it easy to get you up and going. If you’re still unsure they also offer a 10 day free trial.
• Cloud Hosting on Amazon: Whether you want to move, create, or manage a project in the Amazon Cloud Media Temple can make it happen. The fact that it is fully manage hosting makes this worth the price.

Cons:

• Higher Priced Tiers: The old adage you get what you pay for definitely applies. Top Tier customer support, uptime guarantee, and specific hosting options make it worth the money.
• No freebies: Media Temple doesn’t offer free ad spend credits from Facebook or google. If you’re hoping to score a free domain or other hosting swag you’ll have to look elsewhere.
• Not for Newbies: While managed hosting is available, Media Temples Cloud Tech is better suited for businesses and not individuals starting out.

Summary:

Media Temple has always been innovative and a leader with regards to cloud services. This is evident with their growth within that sector and the fact that they had what was considered to be the first public cloud host, known as the Grid. Media Temple is also renowned for their support and technical assistance to customers, with all their well-trained staff on hand to respond, and famously low response times.

Takeaway: While Media Temple may not be one of the cheapest hosting services available, they are worth their weight when considering the support and extra features customers receive. All quality features that make Media Temple’s hosting service a unique offer tough to resist.

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