MT - Ideas?
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- mbr
Ok, well my site and email are down again. Happens about every few days, a week at the most.
I called and am told I am at position 38, approximte wait time is 240 minutes. Huh?
This just can't continue to happen. I've been more than patient.
Any ideas for another good hosting service that has a lot of storage space?
1and1 looks good - $5/month with 120gbs of storage and a tone of other goodies. I'd rather stay in the US, though.
- jamble0
My sites are down at the moment too. I never see the point in calling when that sort of thing happens.
To be fair it's the first time it's happened since I switched to them so as long as it's not down for ages I guess it's not the end of the world.
- maximillion_0
Ive read futurehosting.biz are offering pretty good deals on virtual servers but you should check out
for your self
- mrdobolina0
Is this the gridserver thing, what are the benefits? All I ever hear are bad things anymore.
- mbr0
Yes, it's all the grid servers. I've got clients on the old system and their sites never go down.
The only advantage I can see is storage space (something low like 3-4gigs on the old servers, 100gigs on the grid).
jamble - how often do you check? My email goes down all the time, site about once every few weeks.
It's all working again now. I usually can access the webmail, but not this time.
To me it's business, so if a potential client goes to the site and there is nothing there, they won't come back. That's potentially exptremely costly.
mm- thanks for the link, I'll check it out
- gabriel20
If MT is down even half as often as it's reported here I don't understand why anyone at all would keep hosting with them.
Been hosting all my sites cheap on Godaddy for about 9 months now and haven't had any down time.
I remember when I was hosted with MT they'd have a regular maintenance downtime which I thought was pretty crazy as well, that's not something most large scale hosting providers would ever have.
- digilee0
i always recommend:
http://secure.hostgator.com/cgi-…
- mbr0
I've got a client that is on GoDaddy.
Took 2 hours for the PHP to go through their servivers! We worked for ages trying to figure out what was wrong, turns out their servers just took forever (the worst part was that while we were testing, in off hours, it went through instantaneously)
Yeah, I am guessing MT is losing tons of business. They aren't cheap. Only really good thing is that their tech support usually is good, unlike some of the other places.
- Bender0
All the bigshot super designers and interweb celebs use (mt), but they have sponsored dedicated superfast servers. Then when the rest of the wannabe super designers wanted a piece of the superfast coolcake, they instead got some shitty overpriced gridcake.
But what the hell, as long as they can slap a (mt) badge on their site next to the 'Made on a Mac' it doesn't matter if the cake tastes like warm cowshit.
- mrdobolina0
I don't see many "MT" icons on people's sites anymore, just derek.
- Bender0
Oh almost forgot!
They got super 24 hours tech support. It only takes 4 hours of wait to get a hold of some straight out of college shovel face who knows how to Google your problem.
- myobie0
i don't use them for email, so i don't worry about that
i never notice the sites going down, does it happen as often as it sounds?
recently, i have been very happy with the grid, my sites hosted on it are actually starting to speed up which means they are working out the latency problem
- maximillion_0
the tech support was the real attraction at MT for me, be caareful when looking at these hosts that promise lots of storage and data transfer on shared hosting solutions. most of the time you will hit the limit of the resources WELL before you get near to these levels
- mrdobolina0
How often do you use tech support and for what?
- akoni0
I've used them, mostly for coldfusion stuff, but they have good plans for php, etc. as well
Haven't had a problem with them yet.
- digilee0
How often do you use tech support and for what?
mrdobolina
(May 23 07, 07:37)hardly ever but when I do it's usually through their live 24hr online chat thingy - that's the main draw for me to go with hostgator.
- Dancer0
I never switched to grid and thankfully haven't really had an issue. I would not go with them again after all the comments on here. I was gonna say grumblw at http://ntmy.org/ as a MT bod is usually on their. But the site is SOOOO SLLLOOOOWWWWW and it's sponsored by... guess who.
Godaddy is teh wankest though
- mbr0
I agree the tech support is usually very, very responsive. I normally only wait a minute or so to talk to someone. The knowledge varies.
I've spoken to GoDaddy's tech support - not bad, sounded US based.
1and1 is in Thailand, I think. Not bad English, but obviously reading out of a manual.
FYI - I have never put MT logo on any site and never will. It's the US based tech support that I like(d).
- Dancer0
I have never put MT logo on any site and never will. It's the US based tech support that I like(d).
mbr
(May 23 07, 08:45)Who does?
Everyone always says it's the cool thing to do but I have not seen a site yet that has it on for the hell of it. The onlt ones I have have been actually sponsored
- maximillion_0
ive used tech support for domain changes, cron jobs, info on php modules setups etc. they used to be very fast in responding and to be fair some of the new tools allow you to setup the domains quickly without needing them.
when i have needed to use them the guys have been genuinely helpful , informed and honest, not bullshiting to just get you off the phone like so many others
- -sputnik-0
i've been with hostrocket for about 5 years and have only had my sites/email go down for 5 minutes once, three years ago: