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MediaTemple (MT) versus DreamHost (DH)

Posted by Sustines Laplana, 3 June 2009 at Category/ies: Web Hosting
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I was lately asked by a feed-email subscriber, which among the two webhosts, Media Temple (MT) and Dreamhost (DH), should I recommend to her. What she want is a reliable webhost with better tech support but is cheap or affordable.

For me, these two web hosts are both reliable, with better tech support and are both affordable. You couldn’t blame me if that’s how I look at the both of them because what I said is based on my observation and experience.

But of course I know that there are people who are not contented with the web hosting services offered by Dreamhost. The same is true to Media Temple. If you’ll search the internet for “Media Temple Review” and “DreamHost Review” you’ll find lots of negative reviews about them. And those reviews are based on what they also experienced with the web hosts.

In other words, the answer to the question mentioned above depends on the one who answer it. If you’ll ask an unsatisfied customer of DreamHost, then I know that he’ll tell you that DreamHost sucks. And if you’ll ask the satisfied customer of Dreamhost, you’ll be told that Dreamhost is the best webhost. This is also true to the Media Temple.

However, to help her decide which among the two webhosts, Media Temple and Dreamhost,  should she buy a web hosting account, … here’s my few observations regarding each of the two webhosts.

Media Temple

Media Temple offers three different web hosting solutions:

  1. Grid Hosting for $20/mo. It has hundreds of servers working in tandem. I couldn’t really explain how the servers are connected. But what I understand is that your single website is driven by the hundreds of servers. Once a visitor visit your site, the data downloaded by his computer are coming from these servers. So, in this way, opening your website is faster compared to when your website is hosted by a single but shared server. But of course, the resources of these servers are shared by the websites hosted by them.
  2. Dedicated Virtual ($50/mo, $100/mo and $150/mo). It is also called Private Server by the DreamHost or VPS (Virtual Private Server) by other web host or VDS (Virtual Dedicated Server) by few other web hosts. You can easily adjust your server depending on your needs. But there are only three options: Base ($50/mo), Rage ($100/mo) and Extreme ($150/mo).
  3. Dedicated Physical Virtual for $750/mo. Other webhost called this as Dedicated Server. It’s a single server being rented by a single client.

DreamHost

DreamHost offers us three solutions too:

  1. Shared Server. It’s a single server hosting hundreds or perhaps thousands of websites and accounts. The server’s resources are being shared by all the websites hosted by it.
  2. DreamHost PS with MySQL in shared server. Your website’s files and Database are hosted by two different servers. Your website’s main files are placed in your VPS while the databases are hosted in a shared server. The price of it is $1/10mb of memory plus the standard shared hosting price. The memory allocation can be adjusted in realtime from 150mb to the maximum.
  3. DreamHost PS with MySQL PS. Your account is actually using two different servers. A VPS for your website’s files and another PS for your databases. The price for each of the DreamHost PS and MySQL PS is $1/10mb memory but has 20% discount plus the standard share hosting price.

Comparison

  1. Grid Hosting of Media Temple is faster than the DreamHost shared hosting. Except of course if most of the servers in the Grid Hosting that are serving your websites are down.
  2. In DreamHost shared hosting, if the server is down, you couldn’t access your site. While in Media Temple Grid, you can access your site even if almost all servers in a group or cluster are down as long as there is 1 server running.
  3. Upgrading your Grid Hosting to Dedicated Virtual in Media Temple takes few time but if you’ll upgrade your shared hosting in DreamHost to PS, the process takes days.
  4. DreamHost PS is cheaper and affordable compared to Media Temple’s Dedicated Virtual.
  5. In DreamHost, you can adjust the memory allocation for your PS account from 150mb above up to the maximum limit in realtime. In Media Temple’s Dedicated Virtual, you can upgrade your account from Base to Rage or to Extreme or vice versa in realtime.
  6. In MediaTemple, if you want to resell hosting plans to your own clients, your clients will use a control panel for their own account only. While in DreamHost you are the only one who can access the accounts because there are no separate control panel that your own clients can use.

There are lots of differences between MediaTemple and DreamHost. If you know something, please feel free to share through our comment section.

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20 Responses to “MediaTemple (MT) versus DreamHost (DH)”

  1. metalpig says:
    June 3, 2009 at 9:37 am

    Most web and graphic designers preferred MT while marketing and bloggers preferred DH – observation ko lang po…

    Reply
  2. elmot says:
    June 3, 2009 at 11:24 am

    this is one nice review sel. this is very helfpul for me for i am presently scouting for a hosting service that i could use in moving my blogger blog to a self-hosted wp blog…of course doing maths plus the reliablity are the most important factors for me. i could get good discounts and free stuffs for hosting without comprising a good service, then it is definitely a big treat!

    Reply
  3. jehzlau says:
    June 3, 2009 at 1:40 pm

    Dreamhost is the way to go, kahit negligent sila minsan. They’re worth the buck. ^_^

    Reply
  4. GoBusiness101 says:
    June 4, 2009 at 11:25 am

    Currently i’m still stucked with Godaddy.com, not mentioned in the above discussions. Just want to thank you for the other side of the coin. tanx,

    Reply
  5. Snow says:
    June 5, 2009 at 11:11 am

    Very nice review Sir! This will help a lot of people who are into blogging and webhosting. :D

    Reply
  6. Beautiful Pinays on Friendster says:
    June 6, 2009 at 9:02 pm

    marami akong naririnig na bad comments sa dreamhost.

    Reply
  7. The Philippine Love & Relationships Forum says:
    June 6, 2009 at 9:04 pm

    i think oversold hardware ang problema sa dreamhost.

    Reply
  8. Mike Wagan says:
    June 7, 2009 at 9:15 am

    dreamhost is a good choice. the admin panel is very user-friendly and their support is fast.

    Reply
  9. Zach says:
    June 10, 2009 at 3:18 pm

    Media Temple’s (gs) has been awesome for me with 99.99% uptime since November 21st, 2006. I experienced a 24 hour downtime when a scheduled 6 hour maintenance took longer than expected. The 24/7/365 phone support alone is well worth the extra money because I have never waited more than 2-3min. to talk with someone. The ticket system has been slow at times but never the phone support. They also recently doubled the RAM on the (dv) line which makes them a really good deal.

    Most if not all of (mt)’s problems with the (gs) seem to have been solved with the newer hardware architecture discussed in their blogs making it a very reliable service.

    To clarify, you only get one (1) control panel on Media Temple’s (gs) product line to manage all your clients. You cannot have a control panel for each client. It is different for the (dv) line because they use Plesk which allows you to create multiple accounts for clients with each one having their own control panel. I believe Plesk comes with 30 domain licenses.

    I never had too many problems with dreamhost except I found their control panel very confusing/complicated for simple tasks. Support was fast for the initial response but took days to get a secondary comment after I replied to their answer. The whole mysql management stuff was also very confusing and nothing compared with (mt)’s excellent database management tools.

    If you can afford (mt) I wouldn’t recommend anything else…but if you are on a limited budget and can’t afford them then go with dreamhost.

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  10. Tony Reno says:
    June 15, 2009 at 9:55 am

    Thanks everyone, very helpful reviews. I priced out both for my needs.

    Cost for DH: $162.53 per year
    Cost for MT: $204.00 per year

    That includes discounts and extras needed. I think I might go for MT because they have more redundancy than DH. DH has one datacenter in Los Angeles, while MT has one on the East coast and one on the West coast. I like the fact that both companies seem quite transparent in communications on their blogs; talking about the good and the bad in their services honestly.

    Anyone hosting a podcast on either one of these?

    Reply
  11. Steven says:
    September 5, 2009 at 1:40 am

    I’ve just tested MediaTemple (dv) which comes with Plesk and 30 domains.

    I’m a web developer and not a server administrator. Therefore I would ne a step-by-step guide on how to set up new accounts and websites.

    It’s probably easy when you first learn it, but I don’t have the time and resources for that. And the support is approx one answer per day.

    DreamHost has a much easier admin panel. I have to correct point 6. Dreamhost has Account Privileges, which lets you choose what your customer sees in the admin panel.

    I’ve had DreamHost VPS now, but the site is a bit slow. I will now move to PS and see if this helps.

    Reply
  12. pacquiao vs cotto says:
    October 10, 2009 at 12:45 am

    I suggest you use Dreamhost. it is much easier and user friendly..

    Reply
  13. testerdr says:
    January 10, 2010 at 7:40 am

    If you need discounts on dreamhost use codes TRY90 or MAXNOW

    Reply
  14. Jonathan says:
    April 11, 2010 at 3:27 pm

    Hey there, great article about Dreamhost. I think the pricing alone is good enough reason to pick DH over MT.

    I’ve found these great coupon codes for anyone wanting to sign up with dreamhost..
    DOMAINBUSTER40 (includes free domain/$40 off)
    BESTHOST22 (not sure what this one does)

    Take care!

    Reply
  15. Consultant SEO says:
    June 19, 2010 at 6:05 am

    We use MT and it is really great!

    Reply
  16. Natalie White says:
    July 20, 2010 at 9:43 am

    Are there any other sites that gives free sample products and some other free stuffs?:”.

    Reply
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    October 12, 2010 at 1:43 am

    i get a lot of free stuffs from the internet alone, there are lots of companies that give free samples-*”

    Reply
  18. Metal Brake : says:
    October 23, 2010 at 8:41 pm

    i am just amazed of how much free stuffs you can get on the internet,’~

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