A few months ago I decided to consolidate my hosting and sites to one server, and I went to Server Beach, and got my own Windows 2003 server. I needed ASP.net and PHP for some things I had so it was kind of a unique situation.
Server Beach is awesome, and if I needed more control I would definitely go back, but I decided it was too money for what I was doing, so I found Media Temple (MT). They have one click WordPress install which was nice, and you can host like up to 100 sites on one account on their “grid” service, for like 20 dollars a month.
What this did leave me with though, was I needed to convert the services I had in ASP.NET to PHP, so a week or so ago I decided to make the switch and converted those services over. PHP just reminds me too much of ASP Classic, very hacky and you have the ability to just put anything anywhere. Oh well, it works now and all my sites are over there for now (except a couple that I will move when their hosting expires). I am liking MT so far and hopefully it goes well, its cheap enough and allows me to do what I need.
I do like that they have the MySQL admin available so you can manage the DB’s directly. In one of my sites, I had to update all the posts at once, and I just wrote a query to do it, saved a ton of time.
Now if I can just get all my DNS and domain registrations in one place, I will be set 🙂
So aside from rewriting your code from asp -> .net how was the overall process of shifting to MT ?
pretty easy and seamless? how has their customer service been so far?
Not that you are looking to change again.. but check out http://www.crystaltech.com/ they have always been my baseline for goodness in the hosting world.
😀
Mickey
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its been good/OK. My email alerts from WP don’t work and that sucks, and they havent been able to help me..but it seems to be working good otherwise.
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