Powerful, Easy-to-Use and Scalable Platform That Rivals Much More Complex Competitors
Rating: 9 out of 10
IncentivizedUse Cases and Deployment Scope
Our agency uses Media Temple IaaS Cloud to host client websites. We host both staging sites under development as well as live production sites. Our digital/web group uses the platform and has been using it for more than six years. We had tried other platforms in the past but found them to not meet our needs. We needed something powerful, flexible, scalable and affordable. Media Temple is all of those things. First, it is powerful. The servers have the power and bandwidth necessary to provide commercial-grade hosting for our clients. The flexibility comes in the ability for us to customize our environment to meet our specific needs and flex when we need to make adjustments. The platform is scalable so as we need more storage or memory, we can easily scale to a larger package. Lastly, the price point is affordable and provides a great deal of value for what we pay.
Pros
- Easy to use platform with a full feature set.
- Responsive and helpful customer support.
- Scalable and flexible environment.
- Affordable and reasonable price points.
Cons
- There are often errors with automatic updates and management of 3rd party tools including software such as Plesk.
- I think the communication options could be improved. It isn't as easy to set up alerts as you would want.
- Your plans are grandfathered so you are somewhat stuck with an old plan.
Likelihood to Recommend
I think Media Temple is well suited for a somewhat tech-savvy and sophisticated dev shop that wants something powerful to use but doesn't want the complexity of something like Rackspace or AWS. If you don't need an insane level of control and would have something more on a managed basis, Media Tempe IaaS is the way to go.