George Pearce - iamPearce

Is MT really the best host for me?

I mean, their great. Wonderful. But their expensive, and I don’t really exploit what I’m paying extra for, and right about now, I can’t afford it.

There are hundreds of thousands of blogs out there, better than mine, who use smaller, cheaper hosting services, or even huge ones that don’t cost *quite* as much as MediaTemple do.

I started out with MediaTemple on a share with Donald Kelly, but three months in he stopped paying and has owed me ever since. I doubt he’s ever actually going to stump up the money, and I can’t afford to be paying for it all just as me.

So I’m wondering whether it would be better for me to haul ass over to somewhere like HostGator, because while I was there, they were reliable, very fast, and I never had any problems with them. If my sites get unexpectedly banned, I’ll open up a new account somewhere else. Not difficult.

Doing this would halve my hosting bill each month; and I’d still easily have the space to look after the sites I do, I’d just need to keep more backups. Luckily for me, that’s what S3 is for, and I’m sure I could jury rig the automatic backup thing I use to do more than just the one WordPress site, so I don’t really have anything to lose.

I think MediaTemple are amazing. Brilliant. But their not for little publishers like me, because I don’t turn over enough to make it worth while.