Media Temple is a website hosting and

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provider, which focuses on web designers, developers and creative agencies. The company was founded in 1998 by former CEO Demian Sellfors and John Carey. It is headquartered in

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. Media Temple was acquired by

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in October 2013, but the two brands operated separately until February 2023, when the Media Temple brand will be retired and its services will merge into GoDaddy.

History

In 2003, Demian Sellfors became Media Temple CEO. Sellfors founded Intergress Technologies, a digital business service provider in 1998. Intergress Technologies merged with one of its customers, Media Temple, in 1999. The new company maintained the Media Temple name. Media Temple released the Grid, a public cloud service that manages user websites across multiple clustered servers rather than a single server, in 2006. The Grid was updated in August 2013. In August 2011, Webtrends acquired Reinvigorate, a portfolio company of Media Temple Ventures, Media Temple’s investment arm. Reinvigorate produces web-based real-time data analytics tools. Media Temple appointed Russell P. Reeder its

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and

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in March 2012. Reeder was president and CEO of LibreDigital prior to RR Donnelley’s acquisition of the digital publishing company in 2011. He left Media Temple in April 2015 to join iCitizen, a civic engagement app based in Nashville. In June 2013, Media Temple launched CloudTech, a premium 24/7 support service provided by engineers, and upgraded its managed VPS hosting platform. In October 2013, the

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asked Media Temple to examine the

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’ healthcare.gov web portal. 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.” On October 15, 2013, Media Temple was acquired by

with both companies operating separately until early 2023. In March 2014, Media Temple unveiled a new managed

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hosting product, which the company further expanded in May 2014. In February 2015, Media Temple's managed WordPress offering evolved into a full-featured solution with four new customized plans. In December 2014, the web hosting company joined Google for Work Partner Program to resell and support Google Apps for Work. In July 2015, Media Temple joined the AWS Advanced Consulting Partner Program and launched new managed

services for AWS. That same month, Rod Stoddard joined the company as its new

. 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. In May 2016, Media Temple unveiled a new enterprise-grade WordPress offering powered by

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Fierce CIO, April 18, 2016 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.

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