Media Temple

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Media Temple, Inc.
Type Subsidiary
Founded1998
FounderDemian Sellfors
John Carey
Defunct2023
Headquarters
Los Angeles, California
,
United States
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Lou Kikos, General Manager
Services Website hosting
Cloud hosting
Number of employees
200+ (2017)
Parent GoDaddy
Subsidiaries Virb
Website www.mediatemple.net

Media Temple was a website hosting and cloud hosting provider, which focused on web designers, developers and creative agencies. [1] [2] [3] [4] The company was founded in 1998 by former CEO Demian Sellfors and John Carey. [5] [6] It is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

Media Temple was acquired by GoDaddy in October 2013, [7] [8] [9] but the two brands operated separately until February 2023, when the Media Temple brand was retired and its services were merged into GoDaddy. [10]

History

In 2003, Demian Sellfors became Media Temple CEO. [11] Sellfors founded Intergress Technologies, a digital business service provider in 1998. Intergress Technologies merged with one of its customers, Media Temple, in 1999. [11] The new company maintained the Media Temple name. [11]

Media Temple released the Grid, a public cloud service that manages user websites across multiple clustered servers rather than a single server, in 2006. [12] The Grid was updated in August 2013. [13] [14]

In August 2011, Webtrends acquired Reinvigorate, a portfolio company of Media Temple Ventures, Media Temple’s investment arm. [15] Reinvigorate produces web-based real-time data analytics tools. [15]

Media Temple appointed Russell P. Reeder its president and chief operating officer in March 2012. [4] [16] Reeder was president and CEO of LibreDigital prior to RR Donnelley’s acquisition of the digital publishing company in 2011. [4] He left Media Temple in April 2015 to join iCitizen, a civic engagement app based in Nashville. [17]

In June 2013, Media Temple launched CloudTech, a premium 24/7 support service provided by engineers, and upgraded its managed VPS hosting platform. [14]

In October 2013, the Wall Street Journal asked Media Temple to examine the United States Department of Health and Human Services’ healthcare.gov web portal. [2] [3] [18] [19] Media Temple found website code that served no apparent purpose and that the designers of healthcare.gov “failed to follow basic protocols for high-traffic sites.” [3] [18]

On October 15, 2013, Media Temple was acquired by GoDaddy [7] [8] [9] with both companies operating separately until early 2023. [20]

In March 2014, Media Temple unveiled a new managed WordPress hosting product, [21] which the company further expanded in May 2014. [22] In February 2015, Media Temple's managed WordPress offering evolved into a full-featured solution with four new customized plans. [23]

In December 2014, the web hosting company joined Google for Work Partner Program to resell and support Google Apps for Work. [24]

In July 2015, Media Temple joined the AWS Advanced Consulting Partner Program and launched new managed cloud hosting services for AWS. [25] That same month, Rod Stoddard joined the company as its new president. [26]

In October 2015, the company refreshed its shared hosting product, Grid, and relaunched it as a software-managed solution with enhanced ease-of-use and speed. [27] [28]

In May 2016, Media Temple unveiled a new enterprise-grade WordPress offering powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS). [29] [30] [31] [32] [33]

On December 5, 2022, it was announced that, beginning in February 2023, all Media Temple accounts would become GoDaddy accounts, thus retiring the Media Temple brand. [10]

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  20. ↑ Media Temple Launches Managed WordPress Hosting Service, TechCrunch, Frederic Lardinois, March 4, 2014
  21. ↑ Media Temple Expands Its WordPress Hosting Features With Backup Service And Git Integration, TechCrunch, Frederic Lardinois, May 9, 2014
  22. ↑ Media Temple Expands Its WordPress Hosting Service, TechCrunch, Frederic Lardinois, Feb 25, 2015
  23. ↑ Media Temple Launches Google Apps for Work, Web Host Industry Review, Nicole Henderson, Dec 3, 2014
  24. ↑ Media Temple Launches Managed Cloud Hosting Solution For AWS, TechCrunch, Frederic Lardinois, July 7, 2015
  25. ↑ Media Temple Names Tech Veteran Rod Stoddard President, Web Hosting Industry Review, Nicole Henderson, July 27, 2015
  26. ↑ , socalTECH, Ben Kuo, October 15, 2015
  27. ↑ , Web Hosting Industry Review, Chris Burt, October 19, 2015
  28. ↑ , TechCrunch, Frederic Lardinois, May 17, 2016
  29. ↑ , Web Hosting Industry Review, Chris Burt, April 17, 2016
  30. ↑ , Website Magazine, Pete Prestipino, April 18, 2016
  31. ↑ , socalTECH, Ben Kuo, April 18, 2016
  32. ↑ , Fierce CIO, April 18, 2016
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