{"id":912,"date":"2015-03-02T10:00:08","date_gmt":"2015-03-02T15:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reviewsignal.com\/blog\/?p=912"},"modified":"2015-02-27T23:37:22","modified_gmt":"2015-02-28T04:37:22","slug":"media-temple-wordpress-hosting-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reviewsignal.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/02\/media-temple-wordpress-hosting-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Media Temple WordPress Hosting Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This post is based off\u00a0WordPress Hosting Performance Benchmarks<\/a>,\u00a0where you can read the\u00a0full details of how Media Temple\u00a0performed against the\u00a0competition.<\/b><\/h2>\n

Overview<\/h2>\n

MediaTemple<\/a>\u00a0[Reviews<\/a>] is a new entrant into the managed WordPress hosting space along with its parent brand GoDaddy. It was acquired by GoDaddy in 2013 and both have jumped head first into the WordPress space sharing a lot of technology. Media Temple has a generally more positive reputation than its parent company and targets developers and designers with a premium offering. MT wasn't in our first round<\/a> of testing\u00a0but they did very well in\u00a0our\u00a0second round of testing<\/a>. Media Temple also recently changed their plans and pricing structure, offering plans that scale much higher than the one size fits all plan originally offered. The plan used during our testing was more expensive and had a slightly fewer features. So it seems new customers would get slightly better value and the ability to scale.<\/p>\n

The Plan<\/h2>\n

All testing was done on Media Temple's WordPress hosting package. The plan had 20GB of SSD disk space, unlimited bandwidth usage, allowed 3 sites and had Git and Staging technology. The cost was $29\/month.<\/p>\n

Performance<\/h2>\n

LoadStorm<\/h3>\n

The first performance test was done with\u00a0LoadStorm<\/a>. Media Temple made it to the final round of testing where 2000 concurrent users were logging into WordPress and browsing the test site. The test was designed to test non-cached performance by logging users into WordPress. It caused many hosting setups to crumble. You can see MT's result in this graph (click on it to play with the interactive results):<\/p>\n

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Media Temple handled this test barely showing signs of struggle. A staggering low error count of 9 (out of more than 249,000 requests) \u00a0one of the lowest peak response times at under 1.5 seconds.<\/p>\n

Blitz<\/h3>\n

The second load test that was run on Media Temple\u00a0was Blitz. Blitz was used to test cached performance. It simply requested the home page\u00a0from 1-2000 times per second.<\/p>\n

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Media Temple's Blitz results were near textbook. Flat response times while users scaled to 2000 and a <0.1% error+timeout rate.\u00a0Full Blitz Results (PDF)<\/a><\/p>\n

Uptime<\/h3>\n

Two third-party uptime monitoring services (StatusCake and UptimeRobot) tracked the test site for a month. The results for Media Temple showed 99.81% and 100% uptime respectively.<\/p>\n

WebPageTest<\/h3>\n

\u201cWebPagetest is an open source project that is primarily being developed and supported by Google as part of our efforts to\u00a0make the web faster<\/a>.\u201d WebPageTest grades performance and allows you to run tests from multiple locations simulating real users. MT was tested from Dulles, VA, Miami, FL, Denver, CO, and Los Angeles, CA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
Company<\/td>\nDulles,VA<\/td>\nMiami, FL<\/td>\nDenver, CO<\/td>\nLos Angeles, CA<\/td>\nAverage<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Media Temple<\/td>\n1.516<\/td>\n0.983<\/td>\n0.955<\/td>\n0.555<\/td>\n1.00225<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

There was absolutely no issues with their WebPageTest results, it loaded very quickly with a great average speed of one second.<\/p>\n

Conclusion<\/h2>\n

MediaTemple<\/a>\u00a0[Reviews<\/a>]\u00a0is interesting because I was told it was running the same technology as GoDaddy (GoDaddy bought Media Temple a year ago). They have a few more premium features like Git and a staging environment. Media Temple\u2019s performance was superb. It actually beat GoDaddy\u2019s performance in just about every measure by a marginal amount on both Load Storm and Blitz\u2019s load testing. If GoDaddy's WordPress Hosting<\/a>\u00a0has top tier performance, Media Temple certainly does as well.<\/p>\n

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