The only thing you can compare across all three are their low end shared hosting plans. The grid is a type of clustered shared hosting that simply does not work. It’s far more expensive and has a terrible record of downtime and database latency. That means queries from database driven applications like Joomla, WordPress and Drupal bog down and take many seconds to load–often 10s of seconds. I’ve never seen normal shared hosting perform so badly. The grid’s failure has to do with foundational, architectural flaws in the grid.

Media Temple’s customer support is extremely slow and often hostile, probably from all the angry customers they’ve had since they rolled out the grid. I used it for slightly over 2 years before I couldn’t stand it anymore. On top of the constant latency and downtime, there have been major security breaches with 10% of all customers’ root passwords stolen by hackers because MT’s fools kept them in clear text in an insecure database.

We’re in the process of switching to Dreamhost as we speak after only 2 weeks with Hostgator. We WISH someone would have informed us before we ever bothered with Hostgator.

Godaddy is for domain registration, i heard alot bad thing about their system performance, slow for foreign countries.

For media temple, i havent try it yet.

As for foreign country’s user:

If for Performance, my rating is:
1. Blue Host
2. Hostgator
3. Godaddy

If for Uptime, my rating is:
1. Godaddy
2. Hostgator
3. Blue Host

As a small entrepreneur experimenting with various possibilities on websites and independent book publishing, this blog directly focuses on my current dilemma. Do I stick with Go Daddy? Switch to Blue Host for new sites?

While a larger amount of objective information would have more helpful than just personal stories, this exchange of ideas and experiences has encouraged me to explore Blue Host far more seriously. Thank you.

I have been with MT for several years, use TWO of their grid servers, hosting over the years probably 20-30 different domains at a single time. I have not ONCE experienced an unexpected downtime (that was caused by MT). There have been maintenance times, those were announced with plenty of advanced time, and I was able to inform my clients of the window of time (usually in the wee hours of the morning). So, if there is a downtime of 40 minutes, I’d seriously take a look at something else, or figure out what you might be doing with your own internal systems.

I’ve NEVER heard of that kind of problem with MT. As far as the cost is concerned, it’s been the best overall cost that is upfront, nothing hidden, and easy to use system – with, might I add, stability in COMPANY. 20 bucks a month? Come on…you have 2-3 different clients and that pays for itself easily. I think the problem is that people are still TOO cheap and want McD’s prices with Caviar services.

I’m all too glad to recommend MT for everything and currently am working with a company for a project that requires streaming audio, PHP, MySql DBs, etc…and I don’t even think of anywhere else to go.

Yes! MT all the way.

Lol. How is this terrible. The goal of it was to be a simple overview of features between 4 web hosts. Not detailed data about every web host out there. Not once through the review did I bash any company. Not once throughout the review do you see even one affiliate link. Somewhat opinionated, but at least, unbiased.

This review is not at all just my opinion. I have had experience with these companies. However, I read several customer reviews from numerous sites before writing the overview. That’s why I mentioned stuff like “As far as reliability, Bluehost has had some trouble in the past.” Because I found several customer reviews stating that they have had some trouble with Blue Host.

I included Media Temple because it is a popular host. The only reason that MT is ranked lowest is because of their prices, nearly double, triple, and sometimes 4x more expensive than other hosting companies.

MediaTemple
– 3x the price at $20/month
– Major (20+ minutes) daytime outage every few months
– No chat support
– Consistently long waits for phpne support
– Proprietary control panel
– 1-click installers for a laughable THREE apps

BlueHost
– $7/month
– I can’t recall a single outage in my years with ‘em
– 24×7 chat support is fast and helpful
– Familiarity of cPanel, with great domain controls
– 1-click installers for 68 apps in 24 categories

I’d gladly pay MORE than MT’s $20 a month for a far superior hosting service. Fortunately BH just charges $7. On the heels of today’s 40 minute MT outage I’m so there.