If you’re looking for a web host which offers unlimited everything for the lowest price, Media Temple is going to be a disappointment. The company sells itself on quality, not price, and its shared hosting package looks very different to most of the competition.
A chunky $20 (£16) gets you only 20GB of storage space, for instance. And 1TB monthly bandwidth, with up to 1,000 email addresses spread across a maximum of 100 websites. This doesn’t look good initially, but – do you really need more? We’ll bet that most personal and small business users won’t get close.
Keep in mind also that although other plans call themselves ‘unlimited’, that’s a fiction. Check the small print and they’ll all tell you they reserve the right to stop you using ‘too many’ resources, they just won’t tell you what those limits are. It’s entirely possible that Media Temple’s 1TB per month bandwidth will be higher than you’ll be allowed at a supposedly unlimited host.
Media Temple is still more expensive than the competition, but the company argues that you’re getting more, too. The plan includes features which are sometimes chargeable extras elsewhere (daily backups held for 30 days, automatic updating of WordPress …read more
Source:: techradar.com – PC and Mac
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