Media Temple(mt), was established in 1998 and started by Demian Sellfors, the current CEO, and Thomas Anthony. Media Temple began as a design studio which also dabbled in hosting for its customers. Sellfors and Anthony soon realized that hosting offered greater business potential so they decided to concentrate on that side of the business.

Company and Services
Media Temple is headquartered in Culver City California and has several offices around the world. Since day one it has built up a reputation as a creative leader in the industry and today hosts more than 200,000 sites. Media Temple has around 80 members of staff and in 2007 its revenue exceeded $13 million.

Media Temple’s stated approach to hosting is to harness technology and simplify it for the everyday end users. It is one of a few hosts offering “grid hosting" at a price it believes individuals, as well as small companies and organizations can afford. With grid cluster technology, multiple stand-alone servers are linked to give extra capacity to websites during periods of high demand. Grid Service (gs) is Media Temple’s starter package. As it is cluster-based, hundred of servers work together to provide a scalable service for websites, emails and applications, even through high traffic peaks.

Grid Service comes with generous amounts of disk space (100GB) and bandwidth (1TB) plus it will host up to 100 domains and 1000 emails. Grid Service also comes with a customizable control panel (which you can use on the go with the iPhone Account Centre) and whole set of other attractive features. If you want more control, (mt) also offers VPS (dv or Dedicated Virtual) and dedicated server (dpv or Nitro) hosting.

Custom hosting solutions are catered for with Media Temple’s Complex Hosting (ch) option. If your site needs more capacity than you are allotted with your package, Media Temple will bill you for each extra GB used following a surge in demand.

The launch of (gs) made industry news back in early 2006. However, subsequent failures and outages with the Grid Service also made headlines in November 2006 and again in June of 2008, prompting changes to the system’s storage architecture which have seen improvements. Support is available 24/7x365 by ticketed email or toll-free phone. The average hold time for a support query is under two minutes.

Media Temple is listed as number 1,371 on Inc’s Fastest Growing 5,000 Private Companies in America list. It counts several leading international brands amongst its client base including Toyota, Rip Curl, Diesel, Sony and Adobe.

Server Location
Media Temple has two data centers – one for each coast of the US. The west coast data center is in Los Angeles and the east coast hub is in Ashburn, Virginia (some 48 kilometers west of Washington DC).

Related Links
Blog - http://weblog.mediatemple.net/weblog
Knowledgebase - http://kb.mediatemple.net