I realize that GoDaddy has reversed their position on SOPA. However, to me and to many others the damage has been done. I've been with Media Temple for a couple of years now and have been extremely happy with the service and support. On the other hand, GoDaddy has been nothing but disappointing. This is just the culmination of 5 years of frustration.
We the consumer have enormous power over these rigid companies with interests that aren't inline with their customers.
I was always pretty happy with the stability and speed of the DVs, but the prices are a lot higher than you can get elsewhere (linode, for example). You can get a dedicated dual quad with a heap of RAM and an SSD at a low price place like Server Beach for the same price as MT's 4 GB DV.
I was only with them for six months and after that time they managed to irreversibly destroy everything I had been working on, including the backups I'd paid for. (They said that the backups were on a different server which also happened to catastrophically fail at the same time...)
I want to love MediaTemple, and I agree that their support is excellent, and I accept that terrible accidents happen, but I can never bring myself to use them in a production environment ever again. (The project I was hosting with them was in a sort of private beta, and although I had second backups of the code I had very very foolishly trusted the Snapshot backups with all my user data. Lesson learned.)
Anyway, I'm just one dissenting data point in a giant sea of happy customers. I don't mean to dissuade anyone from using MT--just please don't be any less paranoid about their service than the rest.
We the consumer have enormous power over these rigid companies with interests that aren't inline with their customers.