Media Temple Review 2024. Is mediatemple.net good web hosting in United States?

📄 Editorial Review

🔃 Media Temple is part of Godaddy
🔧 Services: Web HostingDomain Registration
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The founder of Media Temple, Demian Sellfors initially created Intergress Technologies in 1998. Later, together with John Carey (co-founder/CFO), they established Media Temple in such a way that they could help web developers, designers, and entrepreneurs. They claim that they host over 1.5 million websites in 100 countries. Media Temple was bought by GoDaddy in 2013, but they still function as an independent company.

They are specialized in a wide range of hosting products, among which we may mention:

• Shared Hosting;
• VPS Hosting;
• Website Builder;
• Dedicated Hosting;
• Managed WordPress Hosting;
• Cloud Hosting;
• Domain Registration;

Plus, they provide great add-ons:

• CDN & WAF;
• SSL Certificates;
• Managed Services;
• Security Pack;
• G Suite;

Media Temple invented The Grid which is a clustered hosting that promises speed and flexibility for Shared Hosting. Their Shared Hosting plans are all equipped with SSD storage, smooth scaling, DDoS and intrusion protection. When it comes to VPS options, customers can choose between self-managed VPS or managed VPS. Self-Managed VPS functions with full SSH and root access, the possibility to choose whatever Linux OS suits your needs, instant upgrades, premium hardware with SSD storage. Managed VPS functions with instant installation of apps, high performance with SSD hardware or the possibility to choose the control panel that you want (cPanel or Plesk). Dedicated Servers function on high-powered hardware (SSD storage) and all servers include a wide range of features. Some of these specs are: unlimited domain hosting, dual-socket multi-core Intel Xeon processors. Managed and fully managed servers include: pre-installed software with CentOS 6 x86_64 (choice of Plesk or cPanel; Apache 2.2; PHP 5.4; YUM package management), pre-installed software with CentOS 7 x86_64 (Plesk; Apache 2.4; PHP 5.4; YUM package management). Self-Managed servers come with the following installed software: PowerPanel web interface; full root access; Perl; Ruby; YUM or APT package management.

A great thing about them is that they offer to review your website and tell you what they believe needs improvement.

They apply fees for:

• Sites migrating from other hosting providers;
• Premium Support;
• Recovery/Restoration support;
• Installation of SSL certificate;
• Local backups;
• Malware clean-up;

💰 Price & Cost

Their plans are affordable, even if they do not offer the best prices in the hosting industry. However, you get top class services!

⌛ Reliability

Media Temple is committed to offer their customers 99.99% uptime for hardware, network and infrastructure. This is the standard uptime guarantee coming promised by the majority of hosting providers, although there is still a big difference from 99.9% for important business websites.

🏢 Data Center

Media Temple is a US-based office with headquarters in Culver City, California. They have data centers in Ashburn, Virginia and El Segundo, California. Both of these data centers are Tier 3+ and they are connected through a redundant low-latency private fiber.

Specs about the data center situated in Ashburn, Virginia (VA-IDC4)

This hosting facility developed between 2006 and 2007. This is provided with a flexible design and high cooling capacity. VA-IDC4 has 300000 gross square feet and 171300 raised square feet (critical load is of 36.4 MW). It is equipped with N+2 redundancy backup power and N+2 redundant cooling system. It works with Dual Input 300kVA PDU (power distribution units) and it uses one CPS (continuous power supply) serving their N+1 data room.

Specs about the data center situated in El Segundo, California (EL-IDC3)

This is a state-of-the-art data center made to function according to Tier IV specifications. EL-IDC3 has 7000 square feet and it works with two independent commercial power feeds. This functions with N+1 redundancy backup power and N+2 redundant cooling system. They use 3750 kVA power, four PDUs in their data room and one CPS unit for their N+1 data room.

✍️ Customer Support

Tech support is available 24/7. Customers can contact the Media Temple team by chat, phone, social media or support request. They are happy to announce that Media Temple was the first hosting provider to answer support requests on Twitter. Media Temple also provides Premium Support, but there is a fee applied for this option. At the same time, customers can look through articles, blog posts or access the community forum in order to solve various problems.

🔨 Control Panel

Their plans function by using cPanel or Plesk control panel which are the most common in the hosting industry.

🎯 Conclusion

One of the most popular hosting providers, Media Temple is an independent company that offers a wide range of hosting solutions from which customers can choose according to their needs.

Pros:
- The staff at Media Temple offers to review your website for free;
- SSD storage;
- A wide range of hosting options for customers to choose from;

Cons:
- Very few freebies available at Media Temple;

🌏 Server locations:

Ashburn El Segundo

📢 Special pages

• Contact us: https://mediatemple.net/company/about-us/#contact
• About us: https://mediatemple.net/company/about-us/
• Terms of Service: https://mediatemple.net/legal/
• Service Level Agreement: https://mediatemple.net/legal/uptime-guarantee/
• Privacy: https://mediatemple.net/legal/privacy-policy
• Acceptable Use Policy: https://mediatemple.net/legal/terms-of-service/
• FAQ: https://mediatemple.net/webhosting/managed/faq/
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