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After a successful beta period, The (mt) Discussion Forums are now available to all current customers. The forums are the best place to connect with other users of (mt) hosting products. Inside you’ll find friendly people and a great commmunity. To join, login here and go through the easy registration process.

Re-architected and Redesigned KnowledgeBase:

Today we’re going live with a completely new KB system with enhanced live searching, improved organization, a better commenting system and more. But we’re not stopping there…!!!

In the coming months you’re going to see a complete overhaul of our existing articles. Rewrites, more screenshots, more videos, more advanced tutorials….They’re all coming. But this is your KnowledgeBase so please provide comments on what works and what doesn’t. Your feedback is always welcome and needed! To check out the new KnowledgeBase, click here.

If the KnowledgeBase is missing a tutorial you’d like to see, we have a dedicated section within the (mt) Forums just for our KnowledgeBase. Feel free to give us feedback or even submit new ideas for future articles.

We’re in the final stages of the Django beta program! We’ve gotten some great feedback so far from developers of all experience levels. Before we officially launch this new product we want to hear from a few more experienced Django developers!

If you’ve already developed a project with Django and you’re actively developing an application, you can test in a Container right now. Please apply for the beta program and share your experiences with us!

We are very excited to announce a collaboration between Varien and (mt) Media Temple, Inc., to deliver Magento 1.0 through a one-click installation wizard to over 200,000 domains on Media Temple’s (gs) Grid-Service.

“Varien’s brand new Magento 1.0 is an incredible ecommerce platform and we’re very excited to get it into the hands of our Grid users. It’s new to the ecommerce market but Magento will be the one to beat.” Says David Feinberg, Sr. Product Manager of Media Temple. “Mashable compared them to Zimbra, and based on Roy’s team and their experience, I think they’ll easily achieve similar results in the ecommerce market.”

Roy Rubin, Founder and CEO of Varien, said, “Media Temple and their Grid Service are at the forefront of hosting and we are thrilled that Magento will be available as a one-click install to all of Media Temple’s Grid Service customers. This relationship reaffirms our commitment to make Magento the leading open-source eCommerce platform on the market.”

Through the partnership Magento will join popular applications WordPress and Drupal as being available by one-click install to all Grid customers. They’ll be able to install and set up their ecommerce store in minutes without any development experience. The intuitive controls of Media Temple’s AccountCenter and Magento’s Admin control panels provide clients with a powerful, but easy to use, toolset for building their online commerce. The Magento one-click installer is now available in the AccountCenter with today’s release of Magento 1.0

Matt and the WordPress team have released a substantial upgrade with an epic dashboard built by our good friends at Happy Cog. We’re psyched to already have it available as our Wordpress one-click installer for all (gs) Grid-Service customers.

if you already have WordPress installed on your Grid account, Do not(!) use the one-click installer to upgrade your current version of WordPress. It will break your blog and erase all of your hard work. WordPress has info on upgrading here.

Check out all newest features and visit the one-click install page in the AccountCenter to get setup right away!

Last but not least, (mt) would also like to send a special thanks to Matt Mullenweg, the entire Wordpress team and Happy Cog for all of their hard work. Congrats!

Congrats are in order for the all of the SXSW Web Award winners and nominees. But 3 of the winners are (mt) clients and we’d like to give them a proper shout out:

Elfyourself - amusement category
Minuit - music category
Paper Critters - student category

And let’s not forget all of the nominees who rock and host here as well;
The Big Noob (great contest guys)
Bitstrips
we are DAG
GOOD Magazine
Scene 360
Defy all Challenges
Leaflets
Burst Labs
Songza
and Jina Bolton

Cheers to everyone.

The Party!
We’re throwing another infamous Top Shelf (mt) Media Temple Closing Party coming with dual finger guns a-blazin! Expect our usual exceptional DJ selection, delicious ever-flowing beverages (Special Mixers by Daily Juice ) + the premier of the exclusive (mt) Media Temple Collective Motion Project.

DETAILS:

DJ’s:
Prince Klassen (Resident at Beauty Bar)
Dj RaeDawn (Tiger Beat)
Special performance by ASTROVAdj

Party kicks off at 8pm, Tuesday.

LOCATION:
Union Park (Map Below)
612 W 6th St, Austin, TX
(512) 478-7275

The All Star Panel!
Chris Lea, our Chief Technologist, will be speaking on an all star panel called Considerations for Scalabale Web Ventures Joe Stump and Kevin Rose (Digg), Matt Mullenweg (Word Press), and Cal Henderson (Flickr) on how to build the next big thing that actually scales efficiently. This happens Tuesday @ 3:30.

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Our good friends at Happy Cog and A List Apart are kicking off their An Event Apart tour this year in New Orleans. (mt) Media Temple has been working with AEA since the beginning for a very good reason: Content Is KING at these events. AEA focuses on delivering crucial design nuts and bolts from industry leaders.

We’re proud to sponsor the 2008 tour and excited to get valuable face time with you at the (mt) Media Temple opening night mixers.

We are offering an exclusive $100 discount on the New Orleans show for our special (mt) Media Temple audience! To get your $100 discount (exclusively for Media Temple customers), enter discount code AEAMEDI while registering for this An Event Apart conference at https://store.aneventapart.com/ . And remember, if the code is used during the early bird period, that means a total of $200 off the regular cost of registering!

7 years ago, we chose Parallels (previously SWsoft) as our provider for VPS technology. Today, Virtuozzo Container technology is still used for every (dv) Dedicated-Virtual and (dpv) Nitro product. As a testament to their quality, we’re one of the largest deployments in the world (over 10,000) and we surpass all but a few giants in the worldwide hosting industry.

The world of hosting is beginning to move towards VPS solutions and it’s coming to the same conclusion Media Temple had in 2001. We’ve seen great benefits and we discuss those in Parallels case study about us.

From a simple blog to a balanced, stackable, complex Fortune 100 solution, (mt) has earned its place as one of the largest, most experienced, virtualization service providers in the world with one of the highest customer retention rates in our industry.

We’re excited to announce the next generation of (dv) Dedicated-Virtual Servers! Now available for immediate purchase, these new (dv)’s feature updated software including PHP 5, MySQL 5, CentOS 5 and Plesk 8.3.

With new optimizations, we’ve reduced the OS memory footprint for the (dv) Base by 30%. This means you’ll have more memory available for your applications. Other notable features include automatic tuning for both Web Server/Database heavy scenarios, Python 2.4 and Ruby 1.8.5 pre-installed, and new features for resellers in your new Plesk 8.3 control panel. Lastly, we’ve added an all-new default page that we think you’ll really appreciate.

Visit the new (dv) product page for more details.

(mt) Media Temple, in collaboration with Motionographer, Hellohikimori and SCAD bring you the (mt) Collective Motion Project! Collective Motion is a collection of motion pieces created by (mt) partners, clients and anyone with a passion for motion design. This collection, edited and brought together by the minds at Hellohikmori, will be a centerpiece projected at (mt) events around the globe. Accepted entries will also be displayed in a gallery on mediatemple.net. For full entry details read on…

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