Clearly most of the comments are from people who have no idea of what they are talking about since they are just commenting for the heck of it. I have been a long time MT client, with over 200 sites spread between 23 clients. We have used the grid for all of them and never had any problems other than occasional outages which are fixed quickly.

Got a new client, so I decided to give the "premium" WP hosting a try. Client signs up for it and sends me the logins. Spoiler Alert: service is worse than Fatcow

I signed in to the account, there is no admin panel, no file manager, and despite what the OP said about operating independently, it is not true. secureserver.net is a Godaddy server and that is what this service runs on.

While the migrate tool might be nice, there is no way for us to upload a zipped file when migrating a site especially when it is built on localhost. Therefore, the file upload must be done uncompressed and with 4-5K files and slow performance this became a grueling task. The time was bad enough but the Filezilla kept being disconnected with the too many connection note which is the hallmark of Godaddy service. Really, 2 connections at once?

Chatted with MT live chat and asked where is the file manager and why is the service so slow. Rep said, to make the speed of the premium service faster we have not included the file manager or SSH option. I challenge anyone to explain how speed is increased when not offering these tools?

Save your money and go to BH or Hgator I tested the two installs which were identical using pingdom.com and MT service was dead last by a long ways.

Very disappointed in MT allowing Godaddy to use their rep to pull in clients to a premium service which is nothing more than a fatcow performing host.

Needless to say, I dread the talk tomorrow with the client and tell them I made a mistake and that they need to cancel this service before we make things worse by pushing the sites live and crossing our fingers that MT quality will prevail.