BlueHost and Media Temple are both great companies, and they both excel at different areas, which made this comparison something of a challenge for our hosting experts. In the overall rankings, Media Temple got higher average scores than BlueHost, and they also have a greater number of higher level hosting options, with more powerful dedicated servers, to choose from. The support from Media Temple is more advanced and seems to have the ability to work on more complicated problems, which can be very important. In the end, we choose Media Temple as the winner for these reasons.
Media Temple vs Bluehost

Compared options | Visit Media Temple | Visit Bluehost |
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Pricing | 21 hosting plans | 17 hosting plans |
Starting price | $20.00 / month | $2.95 / month |
Free domain | No | Yes |
Coupons | No | No |
User Ratings | 2.0 | 2.9 |
Reliability | 2.0 | 3.0 |
Pricing | 2.0 | 3.0 |
User Friendly | 2.0 | 3.0 |
Support | 1.5 | 3.0 |
Features | 2.5 | 3.0 |
User Reviews | 22 reviews | 366 reviews |
Latest positive review | | |
Latest negative review | i'VE BEEN ON HOLD ALL F*** DAY THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE. LET ME TELL YOU HOW BROKEN THEIR SERVICES AND SUPPORT IS NOW IT IS BEYOND FIXABLE. DO NOT RECOMMEND THEM ANYMORE. I AM GOING TO CANCEL MY SERVICE AFTER TODAY THIS IS RIDICULOUS. | My website has been down for over a week to date, I contacted the customer support 10+ times, they always argue that the matter has been escalated to a higher support team that will respond in further 24-72 hours. Also, back-... More up data are apparently stored in the same servers as the production data, which is the most incompetent move ever. I have never seen such a poor service. Less |
Shared Hosting | 6 plans from $20.00 to $2,699.00 | 5 plans from $2.95 to $119.99 |
Under $4 | No | |
Under $8 | No | |
Over $10 | ||
VPS | 12 plans from $20.00 to $2,699.00 | 3 plans from $2.95 to $119.99 |
Under $4 | No | No |
Under $8 | No | No |
Over $10 | ||
Dedicated Server | 3 plans from $20.00 to $2,699.00 | 3 plans from $2.95 to $119.99 |
Under $4 | No | No |
Under $8 | No | No |
Over $10 | SELF-MANAGED DEDICATED SERVER
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Cloud Hosting | No | 3 plans from $2.95 to $119.99 |
Under $4 | No | No |
Under $8 | No | |
Over $10 | No | |
Website Builder | No | 3 plans from $2.95 to $119.99 |
Under $4 | No | |
Under $8 | No | |
Over $10 | No | |
Data Centers | 1 of 6 | 3 of 6 |
North America | Yes | Yes |
Europe | No | Yes |
Asia | No | Yes |
Oceânia | No | No |
South America | No | No |
Africa & Middle East | No | No |
Support Services | 5 of 6 | 6 of 6 |
Live Chat | Yes | Yes |
Phone Support | Yes | Yes |
Email Support | Yes | Yes |
Forum Support | Yes | Yes |
Video guides | No | Yes |
Knowledgebase | Yes | Yes |
CMS support | 4 of 6 | 5 of 6 |
WordPress | Yes | Yes |
Joomla | Yes | Yes |
Drupal | Yes | Yes |
Magento | Yes | Yes |
Softaculous | No | No |
PrestaShop | No | Yes |
OS Support | 1 of 2 | 1 of 2 |
Windows/ASP.NET | No | No |
Linux | Yes | Yes |
Language Support | 2 of 8 | 5 of 8 |
PHP | Yes | Yes |
Java | No | Yes |
Python | Yes | Yes |
Node.js | No | No |
Django | No | No |
Perl | No | Yes |
Ruby on Rails | No | Yes |
ASP.NET | No | No |
Database Support | 1 of 3 | 2 of 3 |
MongoDB | No | Yes |
MySQL | Yes | Yes |
PostgreSQL | No | No |
Payment Types Support | 2 of 6 | 2 of 6 |
PayPal | Yes | Yes |
Credit Card | No | Yes |
Moneybookers | No | No |
Wire Transfer | Yes | No |
Webmoney | No | No |
Bitcoin | No | No |
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