Web hosting review: Media Temple vs. Dreamhost
Posted March 10, 2009 – 9:14 pm in: web hostingSome months back before I started this blog, I posted a detailed review of web hosting providers Media Temple and Dreamhost on one of my websites, CallingGuides.com, and on the Drupal.org website (Drupal being the content management platform I use for many of my sites).
The review recounts my experiences with these two web hosting providers and highlights the dramatic performance differences that I saw between them. Basically, Media Temple blew Dreamhost out of the water.
There is a graphic on the post showing the huge reduction in page load times the moment I moved over to Media Temple (graphic is from my Google Webmaster account). Media Temple performance was great then (Sep 08) and it remains great today. I couldn’t be happier.
As noted in the write-up, the comparison is not quite apples-to-apples. With Dreamhost, I had a pretty cheap shared hosting plan for, like, $120 per year for unlimited sites and MySQL databases. Though you can find even cheaper plans elsewhere, the Dreamhost plan I had is typical of the shared plans you can get with many providers, such as Bluehost, among others.
With Media Temple, I skipped past their shared hosting plan and bought their ‘Dedicated Virtual’ hosting plan for about $600 per year (I needed to host way more websites than their shared plan would allow, else I would have tried that).
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