However, their servers have always been relatively slow. So, my policy has always been to get high traffic sites their own server plan and then just host fun low traffic sites on dreamhost.

A few months ago I setup a media temple account. For regular, database driven sites, it seems to be uber fast and has blown my mind. Some open source apps run super super slow on their setup, but for the most part speed is what’s great about them.

I read this article as I am trying to decide which account to cancel and which to move forward with.

Even though Dreamhost is about half the price and provides more than 4 times the storage of media temple, I am pretty confident that I am going to be moving all of my sites off of dreamhost and making the fulltime move to media temple.

Media Temple by far has the better service. Sure they might have a few bugs here and there… but when it comes to scalability and performance, they give you what you paid for and then some.

On nightmare host if you have any type of high traffic spike or high bandwidth server, you get SHUT DOWN. Then the support will tell you how you’re disrupting everyone else they packed into a shared server… They offer you all that bandwidth but will never allow you to come close to using it.

And when they put you back online (days later), and you get a ton of legit traffic to your website… BAM shutdown forever. No refund. They steal your source code and wont give it back. You ask them to delete it, they wont.

Nightmarehost = thieves and cheats.

They use Urchin for stats.

Despite the fact I paid for “lifetime” hosting from TextDrive, I’ve grown tired of their spotty performance and unfulfilled promises … and now my support tickets are going unanswered for days. Time for someone new, it seems.

(What kind of stats package does (mt) provide?)

I have had a good experience so far with Dreamhost. But still have the problems of having your site tied to a specific piece of hardware (and as you can see, they do have problems on a somewhat regular basis with specific pieces of software. Though there is nothing that can really be done about this (it is the nature of hardware to eventually break), assuming that (mt) can pull it off, it puts them at a definite advantage in terms of reliability and uptime.

(That said, it would be nice to see (mt) put up some kind of equivalent to the DreamHost Status site).

@Iwo:
…and server deaths.

I’m waiting to see if it’ll get resolved in a couple of months. If it doesn’t, I’m switching to DreamHost, since a lot of people (including Yaakov) seem to have had positive experiences. Then again, that’s what I’d read about MediaTemple.

I’m not sure there’s anything technically different between accounts that are created on GS as opposed to ones moved over from SS.