Media Temple Announces Grid-Server 1.1
Walt asked me today about how my experiences have been with my web hosting provider Media Temple. Funny enough, I've been meaning to write about this very topic, and so I thought I'd take a quick moment and acknowledge the fine work the team at Media Temple has done on their amazing Grid-Server product. Yes, the rest of this blog entry is border line product placement, but when a team builds phenomenal product, particularly one that I invested in early, it's in my nature to promote it!
Today, they announced version 1.1 which incorporates numerous performance enhancements. Admittedly, I have yet to encounter any performance issues, but I'm not taxing their grid architecture like others who run high traffic web applications. Nevertheless, the performance and stability has been light years beyond my previous providers -- and the value is unmatched by their competition.
For those of you aren't familiar with Media Temple, for $20 a month you get:
- 100 GBs of premium storage
- 1 TB of short-path bandwidth
- Host up to 100 individual sites
- 1000 email accounts
- 64 MB Ruby/Mongrel container
- All of the features below, and more.
I've just about consolidated all of my domains to Media Temple's Grid-Server now because the business model is structured so that the customer isn't taxed for hosting one domain or one hundred domains! They've also made it very easy to install application containers for tools and technologies such as Ruby. And, yes, the web interface to Cron jobs, 1-click installs, SSH and AJAX webmail are all icing on the cake!
What's also impressive to me is that they are fairly transparent with their roadmap and plan on offering more containers for other technologies such as ColdFusion, FlashMedia and more.
Here is a screenshot of the admin interface that allows you to control containers, manage accounts and more (click for a more detailed view):
