There’s more progress to report to you this week. This is what we’ll be covering:
A few weeks back we mentioned the upcoming availability of a free RAM upgrade to all of our Dedicated-Virtual 3.5 customers. Today, we’re happy to say, all (dv) host machines have now been upgraded, and all existing customers should be able to upgrade their specs from the AccountCenter.
To claim your upgrade, log into the AccountCenter WebControls for your (dv) and click “Upgrade Server.” Check out this KB Article for the full details.
A few months back, we made a decision to ramp up our Twitter presence as part of our obsessive need to be transparent. Our main focus was on helping customers however and wherever we could. This led to building a 24/7 team of tweetologists — at the ready in the twitterverse.
Today, we’re proud to see the work hasn’t gone unnoticed. Our CEO was quoted in USA Today alongside corporate giants Comcast, Pepsi, JetBlue, Whole Foods, Starbucks & SalesForce.com. And, it’s worth noting, (mt) was the only web host interviewed.
“If you’re trying to hide from your customers, don’t use Twitter,” says Demian Sellfors, CEO of Media Temple, a Web-hosting service. “We want to know what our customers think, both good and bad. That’s a good thing.”
Much love to our Twitter team and USA Today for the mention!
Summer is upon us and we’re going to let some of our staff out of their cages to meet clients, learn a thing or two and hopefully answer questions.
And, if you plan on visiting any of the events mentioned above, you’ll more than likely catch us wearing our new custom track gear. Feel free to pull us aside and ask a question, make suggestions or grill us on current events.
Your latest installment of timely (mt) information is here. This is what we’ll be covering in this week’s (gs) Update:
You deserve more RAM to do more stuff, run more processes, and satisfy memory-hungry apps. That’s why we’re upping the resources for all of our (dv) 3.5 customers.
Starting today, all new Dedicated-Virtual 3.5 servers will be provisioned with doubled guaranteed RAM allocations at no extra cost!
Log into the AccountCenter WebControls for your (dv) and click “Upgrade Server.” If you see the upgrade notice above, your server is ready for upgrade! Check out this KB Article for the full details.
**Note: At this point, around 70% of our existing (dv) 3.5 customers’ host machines have been upgraded, so if you can’t see this yet, don’t worry… The upgrades are happening on an ongoing basis, and we expect them all to be completed over the next 30 days.
***Update! All (dv) 3.5’s should have the upgrade available
A project long in the running, we’re happy to announce Mr. Zeldman and his crew at A List Apart are officially moved over to (mt) Media Temple. This makes (mt) Media Temple the home to all of Jeffrey Zeldman’s web properties including Happy Cog and An Event Apart.
We’d Like to congratulate the A List Apart, Happy Cog and An Event Apart teams on their success evangelizing and implementing the wonders of Web Standards and beautiful, concise design.
In this week’s (gs) Update, we cover the ongoing progress of transitioning (gs) Clusters 1 and 2 to Gen 2 architecture, more news about Cluster 5, an update on our new Fiji and MySQL5 tech, and a bite-sized Anatomy Of piece explaining the finer details of our transition to Gen 2 storage.
We have some good stuff this week. Internal testing of two new pieces of tech is complete - Fiji Agent (automated cluster migrations) and MySQL 5 for Clusters 1-3. Our efforts to get (gs) Cluster.05 online are coming along nicely. We are making preliminary plans for a GRID-wide software update that will give our customers a refresh of popular software package versions. Various bug fixes and improvements to issue monitoring/response mechanisms are the icing on the cake. Keep reading for more details!
In this update we have a progress report on our transition to a segment-based storage model using Sun hardware, some good news about our cluster migration tool, and we’re announcing the start of our MySQL 5 Upgrade BETA program. We also have an update on the anti-spam and blocklisting front, a followup to our transparency initiative, and some stuff about our future capacity expansion plans. In addition, we’re throwing in an interesting discussion from the (mt) User Forums that our (gs) customers might find interesting.
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