I had very few problems with the shared-server over the past two years. I decided to migrate for a few reasons, the top ones being:

• My two-year prepaid subscription was about to expire. As a current client the same monthly rate would apply, coming out to $7.95/month, for the grid-server (gs) lite.
• I wanted to add wordpress (especially with the ease of 1 click like dreamhost).

The Steps

After a few support tickets with mediatemple’s customer service department confirming the above, I decided to switch. But I had to wait another week because the “prepare your server” function was being worked on. So I waited.

The migration took about 12 hours, the first step (preparing the server) took the longest (12 hours), steps 2-3 took about 20 minutes. And migration was completed today.