MediaTemple’s Database exploit and why I’m Glad I left
I had been a huge advocate of MediaTemple, even sent clients there to host their sites on their servers. But recently when it came time to renew my virtual server I shopped around and found an amazing deal with GoDaddy. Four times the server for the price I was paying with MediaTemple. I could have a 4 GB server for cheaper than what I was paying for a 1 GB server on Media Temple. And because my need was for only 2 GB it was like a birthday present to save $64 a month and still have 1 GB more RAM than before. Not to mention a new version of Plesk and cheaper backups.
But the last straw came when we found out a few of our clients sites had been infected by hackers. MediaTemple seems to want to blame WordPress and hackers figuring out passwords–I can only tell you that I use a password software and 12 digit passwords with special characters and numbers. And if WordPress was exploitable why haven’t the 20 sites I host on GoDaddy infected too? Or on anyone else’s servers. This was a MediaTemple exploit. Hackers somehow infiltrated the gridservers on MediaTemple’s servers and were able to access databases. That is very scary.
So, if you end up seeing this code in your WordPress hosted site on MediaTemple: http://ao.euuaw.com/9
You better get it off. Immediately. And then switch hosting providers. Sorry, but I went from huge MediaTemple fan to detractor. No matter what people say about GoDaddy, their virtual server is rock solid and outperforms MediaTemple’s hands down. I’m far from a GoDaddy advocate–but this time they’ve got a solid product.