godaddy buys mediatemple
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- uuuuuu0
since they never announced the price and terms what are your best guesstimates?
- albums0
Media Temple
RANK:3604
3-YEAR GROWTH:84%
2012 REVENUE:$52.3 million
2009 REVENUE:$28.5 million
- arne0
no idea whether there is any coherence, but »life« in »hosting for life« recently turned out not to refer to my life but to the server's. and now it dies by end of the year, so i have to move away from mt and look for an affordable alternative, which is a real pity. of course i wouldn't complain about a gift anyway, but i actually can't share any discontent. everything worked fine with the server and i always received good and fast support from mt over the years.
- yurimon0
You know what this means? QBN could be sold anytime also...
Hmmm... Maybe a financial company who wants the domain?...http://www.quandel.com/company/q…
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- shaft0
You make it seem as if (mt) hosting was the golden standard. Well it wasn't . If you ask me, I'd tell you that you thought it was good because it had a tight website and was expensive.
If I had a beer every time in the last decade I heard a designer say "I need to finish my portfolio, just bought a hosting package on (mt), they're the best, right?", I'd have a liver failure by now.
Time and again, people who work in marketing (that's you QBN'rs), bought into good marketing. Not saying it's a bad thing, mind.
No, they weren't the best hosting company out there. They were ok, but with a history of problems. I read many comments yesterday saying GoDaddy was actually more reliable in comparison. So there.
In the end, I'll quote a classic:
"Nothing is fucked here, Dude. Come on, you're being very un-Dude."- < this.utopian
- I've only experienced one time GoDaddy failed on me in the last 10 years.monospaced
- "GoDaddy was actually more reliable..."
I was nodding my head in agreement up until that lineukit2 - That's just random opinions from yesterday, I never used either for hosting, so couldn't tell myself.shaft
- ESKEMA0
^^ I don't give a fuck about the quality of (mt). I never had hosting with them. What I see is maybe trouble for QBN. They don't have the (mt) logo down there ↙ for nothing (or have they?). Partnerships that were in place may simply disappear, and with the the huge amount of giving a fuck the owners of this site have demonstrated lately, I don't see them spending big bucks with hosting in the future. We'll see how this turns out. Maybe everything jstays the same, but there is reason for concern here...
- It would be hard to overestimate the amount of hosting packages this logo sold here. It stays.shaft
- mantrakid0
I was initially disgusted with this news. GoDaddy was the worst. I emailed their "questions@" address they mentioned in the press release and let them know:
"Godaddy? Really? They are truly and literally the worst ones i've ever dealt with.
C.R.E.A.M. Dolla dolla bills yall."I received a response within minutes from Lindsay who I then began a discussion with regarding my concerns over the possible degradation of service. She was very open and transparent with any of my questions and it didnt take me long to at least offer up a slightly more positive response to her.
"let me rephrase my email in a more positive note. :)
Congrats on the GoDaddy stuff. I know its easy to be swept up and cloud myself in the swirling critical opinions based on the whole image and back-history aspect of GoDaddy, but I do truly hope this is for the best and wish you guys nothing but success.
I look forward to remaining a customer to see how things go. Above all, i appreciate the open & honest communication you guys have always provided, and it seems you are keeping true to that, even in what must be a storm of opposition.
Much respect, and all the very best."
She was awesome and came back with:
"Thanks for the kind words Nate! I assure that nothing is going to change here, we will still be the (mt) Media Temple you know and love. I have worked here for almost 4 years and if I thought this acquisition was going to change (mt) Media Temple into something else, I would have bailed. I was skeptical at first but now that I have met everyone and see the changes that GoDaddy is actively making, I officially drank the Kool-aid. :)
You have my email address now and if at any time you feel like we are changing, shoot me an email and I will see what I can do. Take care!"
I am less worried.
Running 3 separate managed DV 4.0 packages. Rarely have issues, and when i do they were caused by my things out of anyones control. And even in those cases, they do what they can to assist me.
- albums0
GODaddy
2013 STATISTICS
RANK:4532
3-YEAR GROWTH:49%
2012 REVENUE:$910.9 million
2009 REVENUE:$610.3 million
- sherm0
digitalocean.com is for the serious developer.
- they seem to make it very user friendly...
http://www.qbn.com/t…albums
- they seem to make it very user friendly...
- sublocked0
http://www.marco.org/2013/10/15/…
As for why [Media Temple] decided to finally exit after all this time, co-founder Demian Sellfors said that this was always the plan.
“We’ve had our eye on an exit since we started 15 years ago,” he told me. “We regard ourselves as entrepreneurs first and we designed it for exit from the start, even if on the way we accidentally built a phenomenal culture and a business that resounded with the marketplace.”