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.
Steve Jobs (1955-2011) was an innovator, businessman and pioneer of personal computing. His vision and execution have pushed not only PC and personal device design, but the way we interact with technology on a whole. He’s been a huge influence in the (mt) offices (We are a Mac:) often inspiring the question, “How would Apple do this?”
Recently, a tape was recovered of what was thought to be a lost interview conducted by Bob Cringely in 1995. It has been decided this piece of history will be shared with you in a limited series of showings at Landmark Theatres around the US. Read the rest of this entry »
The Personal Kanban blog ran a great pair of articles on “Lean Meetings” (part 1, part 2.) I recommend reading through them to get more context for what follows, but I’ll re-share one of the biggest insights: the point of a meeting is to have a conversation. Pre-set agendas feel like best practice, but they can get in the way of that ‘true goal’ more often than not. After having orchestrated a few meetings using this idea, some helpful practices have emerged, which seemed worth sharing.
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The world’s largest social media event is coming to Los Angeles this weekend and the (mt) Media Temple team will be there with a special mission for you! Read the rest of this entry »
We’re happy to announce the launch of Residence, a new passion project here at (mt)!
(mt) serves as the digital home for hundreds of business experts. From lifestyle coaching to user interface design theory and beyond, (mt) has hosted some spectacular folks. We thought it was very cool to have so many thought-leaders under one roof. Why not build a space these innovators could share knowledge without restrictions? Read the rest of this entry »
For all you WordPress enthusiasts out there, (mt) is working hard to make your life easier. Today, (mt) is happy to announce a new service that makes moving a WordPress site a snap. SiteMover is a website migration service that allows you to move your WordPress site over to (or even from) Media Temple. Starting today, both current and new customers can purchase it for $150.
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.
Thanks to your support, we’ve been honored with TWO major awards in the past few weeks.
Deloitte & Touche announced that (mt) Media Temple made their Technology Fast 500, a list of the top 500 North American companies based on percentage of revenue growth between 2006-2010. Also this month, Inc. Magazine released their list of the Inc. 5000. For the the 5th year, (mt) was honored as one of the fastest growing companies in 2010.
We couldn’t do it without you and we want to say a big THANK YOU to our (mt) clients!
Today we are happy to release Nitro Classic – a reduced price dedicated server based on our popular Nitro platform.
Nitro Server, introduced in 2007, is designed for power hungry sites and applications that require guaranteed, dedicated resources. With the new Nitro Classic, we have recycled Nitros from past projects by rebuilding the machines and upgrading them with the newest software available.
Now at a reduced price, a wider-range of customers can afford access to these awesome servers! Our data center team wins too because Nitro Classic helps (mt) Media Temple keep its utilization rate as high as possible.
Nitro Classic is available now. Please follow this link for more information.
About a month ago, we experienced a peculiar spike in NFS operations on a subsystem of our clusters with the majority of these NFS operations being NFSD getattr requests. We’ve used various tools and methods in the past to troubleshoot our NFS issues but the tool that gave us exactly what we wanted in this case was Systemtap. Read the rest of this entry »
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