Hosting Switch in Progress

12 Responses

1. Website Translation

   January 31st, 2008 at 1:39 am

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   Just an FYI. I am a Media Temple customer and am not totally satisfied. They have hiccups fairly often, their grid servers can be slow and their phone support is understaffed.

   Although I like their service I get better service at godaddy but I don’t use their hosting so I can’t speak for it but I have domains registered there.

   Best of luck.

2. Jay - The Phoenix Real Estate Guy

   January 31st, 2008 at 1:59 am

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   Thanks WT. Seems there are lots of varying opinions on just about every hosting company. In the past, I’ve always had fabulous customer service with GoDaddy. Interestingly, that was always when I was buying something. As soon as I started having a ton of problems with site speed and availability, nothing seemed to be their problem.

   I’ll keep using GD for registering domains. Time will tell with MT, but I can say their tech support today was fantastic.

3. Scoot

   February 1st, 2008 at 10:43 am

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   Hi Jay, just wanted to let you know that it does seem like your pages load faster since the switch.

4. Mike Brown

   February 5th, 2008 at 2:31 pm

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   That’s great - My IT guy is putting our new real estate sites on Media Temple… I did not realize there were any negatives to the company. He made it sound like they were one of the best in the industry. My new sites do seem slow but I thought it was just his bloated code. deretiree dot com and deh2o dot com both are works in progress but have already started to rank well and bring in their first leads. I hope WT is wrong about the company.

5. The Phoenix Real Estate Guy

   February 5th, 2008 at 4:46 pm

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   Mike - look deep enough and you’ll find someone that hates their hosting service.

   Granted, I’ve only been using Media Temple for a week, but I’ve had zero problems. They were swift and efficient setting it up, and the one time I called customer support they were fabulous.

   Only time will tell of course, but I am tickled pink with MT.

6. Austin Real Estate Blog

   February 5th, 2008 at 8:41 pm

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   Your site seems to be running a little faster for me. Did you do any fancy DNS forwarding when you changed or did you just do a straight switch.

7. The Phoenix Real Estate Guy

   February 6th, 2008 at 11:27 am

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   Nothing fancy AREB. Basically I copied files over to the new host and when that was done, changed the name servers from GoDaddy to Media Temple.

   I didn’t delete the files on GD until I was sure everything was solid with MT.

8. Austin Real Estate Blog

   February 6th, 2008 at 11:30 am

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   Thats good to know. I keep playing with the idea of changing hosting companies. I noticed our server goes down on occassion. Of course its hard to know if it goes down more or less than the average hosting company.

9. tracy

   February 8th, 2008 at 12:51 pm

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   My web consultant advised me to switch hosts, so I did extensive research. I really wanted to like MT based on my initial research, but found too many negative reviews, as I dug a little deeper. I ended up staying right where I was, for now. Please update us on how MT works out for you. I’m looking for something new for my next blog.

10. Zyon.com

    February 25th, 2008 at 7:21 am

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    Hey, no problem. We understand. Switching hosting providers is not a fun thing…. but congrats on getting your DNS propagation done! That’s always a sigh of relief.

    Best regards,
    Martin

11. tracy

    February 25th, 2008 at 2:00 pm

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    Hi Jay! I know you’re a little, um, busy right now with all the chatter on the RE.net, but could you please drop a note about how things are going with MT? Inquiring minds are dying to know.

    Thank you!

12. The Phoenix Real Estate Guy

    February 25th, 2008 at 3:00 pm

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    Tracy - so far, so good! No problems at all. I’m happy!!