We have some good news for (gs) Grid-Service users: We are about to launch our new mail product! As mentioned in our last product update, our new mail product is professional-class mail that is also beautiful and easy to use. Also, (mt) Mail comes at no additional cost for Grid customers!
We have some good news for PHP users on the (gs) Grid-Service. Available for immediate use, (mt) Media Temple has released a new, simple method for dealing with PHP versions and updates. Please read on for more information.
Hello, my name is Sara and I lead the Product Team at (mt). We are a team focused on many things — from creating the beautiful design and intuitive user experience of our products; to managing the development of projects; to writing clear, concise content; to making sure our existing products are working to meet your needs; to developing and delivering new features and enhancements out to the site; and, a little bit of everything else in between. Basically, our entire job is about customer experience. We are passionate about features, designs, grammar, code, deadlines, and we like to have a bit of fun along the way.
Today, we’re happy to announce (mt) Media Temple’s partnership with CloudFlare, the web’s easiest speed and security system. We partnered with CloudFlare because they have a simple and free solution to help protect and accelerate any website online. Once your website is a part of the CloudFlare community, your website visitors get faster page load times and improved performance.
At the beginning of the year we mentioned several initiatives we’ve been working on to improve overall (gs) performance. Last month we told you about email performance improvements. Today we’re happy to tell you about ongoing storage improvements we’ve made that have improved overall web response times across the Grid.
For the last couple months we’ve been quietly enhancing the (gs) storage infrastructure with the addition of a caching layer built with extremely high speed Solid State drives. We’re about 80% complete with this work and happy to tell you that Grid Clusters with this new enhancement are reporting 25% speed increase for average web response.
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In our recent State of the Grid post we talked about improvements we were making to the (gs) email system, specifically making it faster and more reliable. Today, we’re happy to announce that the initial improvements have been rolled out to all (gs) clusters, and email performance has been greatly improved. Read on to find out how the significant updates to the (gs) IMAP and POP3 email server is helping to keep email quick and stable on the Grid. (more…)
Hi, my name is Matt Jones and I’m on the Product Team here at (mt). I want to close out 2010 by making sure everyone who wants to stay informed about our (gs) Grid-Service has the latest information on the status of the platform. If you’re unfamiliar with the (gs), it is a cluster-based hosting platform that we launched in late 2006. The (gs) is home to over 400,000 domains serving up more than half a billion web hits per day. At launch, the (gs) gave birth to a new way of thinking about on-demand web hosting and was a big departure from traditional shared hosting technology. We set expectations high and in some cases over-delivered but the system itself has not been without its share of problems.
In the past we have communicated a great deal of transparency about the Grid, conveying its success and its shortcomings, but in 2010 we fell short on the frequency of our communications. Users of the Grid deserve to have all the information – whether good, bad, or ugly and I’m committed to delivering the details. Read on to see progress this year with the (gs) and upcoming improvements for 2011.
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We have some good news today for PHP users on the (gs) Grid-Service. Available for immediate use, (mt) Media Temple has released new and updated PHP versions. Coming soon, customers will have a new, simple method for dealing with PHP versions and updates. To use the new versions now, please see the wiki: http://mdtm.pl/dg7e5i. To learn more about what’s coming, please read on.
The GRID has served thousands of users’ web apps with a choice of PHP4 & 5, but newer, faster, more secure versions of PHP are available. As of Tuesday September 14th, new domains and services on the (gs) Grid-Service will default to PHP 5.2.6.
In addition to updating the default version, (mt) Engineers will increase PHP security on the GRID by including the Suhosin hardening patches with PHP 5.2.14.
We’re very pleased to announce WordPress 3.0, now available as a 1-click install in the AccountCenter for all (gs) Users. This release represents a GIANT step forward for the WordPress platform, and we’re excited to get the release out to you. Please check out their great blog post detailing all the changes. This is a huge release for our friends at WordPress. Kudos to them!
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