Media Temple
March 20, 2009 by NetCrunch
Filed under Web Hosting
Media Temple (sometimes referred to as “(mt)”) is a website hosting and software application services company based in Culver City, California, USA. It is a pioneer of “grid hosting”, whereby multiple stand-alone servers are linked to provide additional capacity for clients during periods of peak demand. Current clients include Qantas, Adobe and Rip Curl.
Services
Media Temple’s primary business is website hosting for more than 200,000 websites from 40 countries on Grid-Service. Its grid hosting system uses a network of servers that work together as a team. Unlike traditional shared hosting, grid hosting can cope well with spikes in traffic as it can assign more servers to help carry the load. The service was launched on October 17, 2006.
Although Grid-Service offers clear benefits over traditional shared hosting solutions, it has come under criticism for service outages. Intermittent service availability has been a frequent problem. In one case, periodical downtime occurred between April 29, 2008 and May 28, 2008, until engineers made substantial changes to the system’s storage architecture.
Grid-Service will be replaced by a Cluster-Server in 2009. It will feature a re-architected storage system which will be designed to eliminate the main source of service instability that the Grid-Service suffered from.
Media Temple also provides a dedicated hosting service providing virtual private servers designed for clients whose websites experience high levels of traffic. Current clients include Diesel, Adobe, Rip Curl, Mashable, CheeseMind and Qantas
Contact Information
Corporate Headquarters
- 8520 National Blvd, Bldg A
- Culver City, CA 90232
West Coast
- Data Center 2260 E. El Segundo Blvd
Los Angeles, CA
East Coast Data Center
- 44480 Hastings Dr.
Ashburn, VA
Contact (mt) Internationally Description Number
- Sydney, Australia +61-280149326
- Sao Paulo, Brazil +55-1130135428
- Tokyo, Japan +81-345801703
- Mexico City, Mexico +52-5527890309
- Barcelona, Spain +34-931845531
- Johannesburg, S. Africa +27-114613288
- London, UK +44-2033938379
- All other countries: +1-3108415500
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