We’re excited to announce hosting Gift Cards are now available! An awesome gift for anyone already working on the web or looking to get started in the new year. For only $95 you can give someone special a year of (gs) Grid-Service Lite web hosting. This unique gift can be sent as a physical gift card or scheduled for automatic digital delivery. Check out the Gift Card web page for more details. Happy holidays!

Sydney, Sao Paulo, Tokyo, Mexico City, Barcelona, Johannesburg, and London rejoice. We have local numbers for you to contact us.

We based this round of numbers on customer density in Australia, Brazil, Japan, Mexico, Spain, South Africa and the UK. But, if you think we should have more, let us know in the comments below!

We’re excited to announce the launch of the first phase of our Django GridContainer beta program. Everyone in the program should have already received information on how to access their Django Container. If you missed the beta sign-up window in the past don’t worry we’re still accepting a limiting number of testers into the program. Please visit the sign-up page to get started!

The ever prodigious Dan Cederholm of SimpleBits fame has developed a new site called Foamee. Foamee makes use of the Twitter APIs to help you keep track of who owes you a beer, and vice-versa. We here at (mt) think that’s pretty darn cool.

The site was developed on and is hosted by (mt) Media Temple’s (gs) Grid-Service, so go over and check it out! And congratulations to Dan for a very cool idea and his always impeccable execution.

A great new feature for the MySQL GridContainers has just been made available inside the AccountCenter. The new my.cnf editor lets you directly edit your MySQL server’s main configuration file and change just about any MySQL system variables you want. Visit your MySQL GridContainer controls page to enable the editor right away.

With the launch of this new tool the MySQL GridContainers now offer all the control you want from a dedicated MySQL resource without any of the maintenance hassles of a dedicated database server! More MySQL GridContainer features are on the horizon. Let us know what you’d like to see next in the comments!

As we round out the biggest (mt) year to date, we wanted you to know about our last few events! The first one is FITC Hollywood (Oct 22-23). If you haven’t got your tickets for FITC Hollywood yet, be sure to pick those up before they sell out. We’ll be throwing a party for the event on October 23rd at Little Temple in Silver Lake. If you’re in LA, stop by and have a drink on us. RSVP instructions below.

Following FITC, our Lead Technologist, Chris Lea, will be speaking at Startup LA (Oct. 26th) on the importance of scalability for your start up venture. If you’re thinking about starting up a site or app, this is a great place to learn what it takes.

Ryan Carson is coming to the US to blow us away in NYC at his Future of Web Design Conference (Nov. 7-8). (mt) Media Temple will be blowing out the season with the closing party at Rebel NYC! The featured acts are Kerouac, Alex English and 33HZ. If you’re an NYC (mt) client, we’ll have a special limited guest list so you can attend.

To RSVP for an upcoming party, Email sdesmet at mediatemple.net with either “NYC (mt) party” or “LA (mt) Party” in the subject and we’ll do our best to get you on the list!

You’ve made the request and we listened. Starting today, you can have 5 users for your MySQL databases on your (gs) Grid-Service. This new feature of MySQL SmartPool v.2 is now available for free to every Grid customer. Login into your Account Center to see it in action.

You may have already heard, but for those who haven’t, you can buy a domain, reboot your server, add emails, pay your bill, get support and more - all from your iPhone. The feedback has been very flattering and we’re ecstatic that many of you already like it as much as we do.

From an idea hatched by our CEO to the team who developed, tested and pushed it out; well done gentleman, well done. More features are coming and, as always, feedback is always welcome.

See screen shots and login to the iPhone AccountCenter here.

We have some exciting things going on in (mt) Labs this summer. Following the beta release of the (mt) AccountCenter for iPhone we’re now preparing our new (mt) Community Forums! The new forums will help you connect with other (mt) customers for tech, business and much more. If you’re interested in participating in the beta program for (mt) Community Forums or just want to see what we’re working on please visit (mt) Labs for details.

It’s finally here and waiting to tame any demanding app, site or dev team! With its 15,000 RPM SAS drives (one of the fastest I/O in the industry), 300GB RAID 1 drives, 4GB of RAM, a 4-Core Xeon processor, and stackable, you’ll have your hardware needs covered.

But what sets this server apart, besides the price and no set-up fees, is that it’s a single-tenant virtual server that’s easily configured any way you see fit. If your current (dv) needs room to grow, you now have a portable OS that can be rapidly moved with virtually no downtime. Need to develop or deploy several servers, now you can with unlimited Plesk licenses. All of this and more is our goal for the (dpv) Nitro: Powerful, yet easy to operate. Diesel, Mashable and Plasq (MySkitch) agree and we think you will too.