Mediatemple
Skip
Confidence: Medium
GoDaddy is retiring the Media Temple brand, and a 2021 breach plus messy forced migrations make new signups a bad bet.
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Comparison
Mediatemple vs Siteground
Mediatemple lands on Skip, and Siteground lands on Depends.
Siteground
Depends
Confidence: Medium
SiteGround is a solid, well-supported WordPress host for small sites and beginners, but it's priced fairly only in year one.
| Compare | ||
|---|---|---|
| Verdict | Skip | Depends |
| Best for | Existing legacy customers (short-term only) | Small WordPress and WooCommerce sites |
| Who it's not for | New signups . the brand is being retired | Price-sensitive buyers staying past year one |
| Privacy | 2021 GoDaddy breach extended to Media Temple accounts; a multi-year intrusion was later disclosed.² | No hosting-infrastructure breaches found in sources; several 2025-2026 CVEs exist in SiteGround's own WordPress plugins. |
| Support quality | Post-acquisition complaints; users describe hitting breaking point | Long-praised, but recent complaints of decline |
| Public sentiment | Reviews were strong before the 2013 GoDaddy acquisition, but recent users report botched migrations and are leaving.³ | Users praise reliability, uptime, and beginner-friendly support, but a vocal group complains about steep renewals and declining service.13 |
| Biggest gotcha | New signups face forced migration to GoDaddy as the brand winds down⁴ | Advertised prices apply only to the initial term; renewal rates are substantially higher.16 |
Pick Mediatemple when
- Existing legacy customers (short-term only)
- Agencies with old client sites still on (mt)
- Nobody new
When Mediatemple is not a fit
- New signups . the brand is being retired
- Ecommerce sites . breach history is disqualifying
- Budget buyers wanting simple cheap shared hosting
- Anyone unwilling to migrate again, to GoDaddy, soon
Pick Siteground when
- Small WordPress and WooCommerce sites
- Non-technical beginners
- Hands-off managed hosting buyers
When Siteground is not a fit
- Price-sensitive buyers staying past year one
- Enterprise teams needing cloud-scale or SLAs
- Developers wanting root access and full control
- Anyone with multi-year hosting budgets . intro pricing is a hook
Sources
- GoDaddy Acquires Media Temple (2013)reviewsignal.comnews
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- GoDaddy shut off the MediaTemple.net DNSreddit.comnews
- Trustpilot reviews of mediatemple.nettrustpilot.comreview
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- Review: Media Temple Dedicated Virtual (dv) Serversdavidseah.comreview
- Review! Media Temple = Thank god they existwebhostingtalk.comreview
- SiteGround Trustpilot reviewstrustpilot.comreview
- SiteGround reviews on G2g2.comreview
- SiteGround Review . CNETcnet.comreview
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