Media Temple

Media Temple, Inc.
Type Private[1]
Founded 1998[1]
Headquarters Culver City, California, USA[2]
Area served Worldwide
Key people Demian Sellfors CEO
Services Website hosting
Application software
Revenue US$44,000,000 (2011)[2]
Employees 196 (2011)[2]
Subsidiaries Vantageous, Krop, Virb, Reinvigorate[3]
Website www.mediatemple.net

Media Temple (sometimes referred to as "(mt)") is a website hosting and software application services company based in Culver City, California, USA.[1] It is a pioneer of "grid hosting", whereby multiple stand-alone servers are linked to provide additional capacity for clients during periods of peak demand.[3] Current clients include Starbucks, Sony, IBM, American Broadcasting Company, JQuery, Diesel, Toyota, Qantas, Adobe and Rip Curl.

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History

Media Temple

Media Temple is a web hosting and cloud services provider headquartered in Los Angeles, California. Since 1998, they have provided businesses and consumers around the world with professional-class service to host websites, applications, virtual servers, email, and other rich Internet content. Their infrastructure serves approximately 100,000 customers and over 1 million websites in top-tier datacenters on the east and west coasts of the United States. (mt) Media Temple provides "technology agnostic" web hosting and software application services to businesses worldwide, hosting websites, e-mail, business applications, and other rich media content.

Employees & Culture

The company has 180 employees who help create an award winning culture. Their customer service is "always on" (available 24/7/365) with a U.S. based support department serving customers in over 60 countries. They provide customer support anytime by phone, web and also Twitter and Skype, and offer support in English, Armenian, Korean, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, and Swedish.

(mt) Labs

(mt) Labs is an extension of the product development team at (mt) Media Temple. (mt) Labs was created to give clients early access to the newest products and services currently in development.

Services

Hosting

(gs)

(gs) Grid Hosting - Easy to use, burstable power when you need it. Clustered reliability meets entry-level web hosting.

(dv)

(dv) Dedicated Virtual / VPS Hosting New to Linux? Need a control panel VPS? Manage your websites with dedicated resources and unmatched flexibility.

(Nitro)

Nitro- Dedicated VPS Hosting - A high-performance server with control panel that has quickly become the go-to platform for high-end hosting.

(ve)

(ve) server Developer inspired utility VPS, with high-end hardware, top-tier connectivity and superior virtualization technology.

(cx)

(cx) server Media Temple's custom hosting solutions for complex server needs.

(ProCDN)

ProCDN Content Delivery NetworkGlobal content delivery will make your applications more responsive and reduce server load.

(SiteMover)

SiteMover is a website migration service that allows you to move your [[1]] site to (or even from) Media Temple. The migration includes all content, themes, plugins and databases.

Domain Registration

Media Temple has significant market share in North American domain registries and continues to get traction in this competitive space.

Future

Media Temple published its 2012 Product Roadmap in October 2011. The current roadmap can be found here: http://mediatemple.net/roadmap/

Incidents

Media Temple was briefly criticized for service outages affecting Grid Service customers in 2010. Intermittent service availability was a temporary problem, and has since been remedied.

References

  1. ^ a b c "About us". Media Temple. http://www.mediatemple.net/company/aboutus/. Retrieved 2008-06-12. 
  2. ^ a b c = 200813710 "Media Temple - Inc 5000". Inc.com. http://www.inc.com/inc5000/2008/company-profile.html?id = 200813710. Retrieved 2008-09-12. 
  3. ^ a b "Ventures". Inc.com. 2010 (2010). http://mt-ventures.com/. Retrieved April 10, 2010 (2010-04-10).