godaddy buys mediatemple
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- sublocked0
http://www.marco.org/2013/10/15/…
As for why [Media Temple] decided to finally exit after all this time, co-founder Demian Sellfors said that this was always the plan.
“We’ve had our eye on an exit since we started 15 years ago,” he told me. “We regard ourselves as entrepreneurs first and we designed it for exit from the start, even if on the way we accidentally built a phenomenal culture and a business that resounded with the marketplace.”
- sherm0
digitalocean.com is for the serious developer.
- they seem to make it very user friendly...
http://www.qbn.com/t…albums
- they seem to make it very user friendly...
- albums0
GODaddy
2013 STATISTICS
RANK:4532
3-YEAR GROWTH:49%
2012 REVENUE:$910.9 million
2009 REVENUE:$610.3 million
- mantrakid0
I was initially disgusted with this news. GoDaddy was the worst. I emailed their "questions@" address they mentioned in the press release and let them know:
"Godaddy? Really? They are truly and literally the worst ones i've ever dealt with.
C.R.E.A.M. Dolla dolla bills yall."I received a response within minutes from Lindsay who I then began a discussion with regarding my concerns over the possible degradation of service. She was very open and transparent with any of my questions and it didnt take me long to at least offer up a slightly more positive response to her.
"let me rephrase my email in a more positive note. :)
Congrats on the GoDaddy stuff. I know its easy to be swept up and cloud myself in the swirling critical opinions based on the whole image and back-history aspect of GoDaddy, but I do truly hope this is for the best and wish you guys nothing but success.
I look forward to remaining a customer to see how things go. Above all, i appreciate the open & honest communication you guys have always provided, and it seems you are keeping true to that, even in what must be a storm of opposition.
Much respect, and all the very best."
She was awesome and came back with:
"Thanks for the kind words Nate! I assure that nothing is going to change here, we will still be the (mt) Media Temple you know and love. I have worked here for almost 4 years and if I thought this acquisition was going to change (mt) Media Temple into something else, I would have bailed. I was skeptical at first but now that I have met everyone and see the changes that GoDaddy is actively making, I officially drank the Kool-aid. :)
You have my email address now and if at any time you feel like we are changing, shoot me an email and I will see what I can do. Take care!"
I am less worried.
Running 3 separate managed DV 4.0 packages. Rarely have issues, and when i do they were caused by my things out of anyones control. And even in those cases, they do what they can to assist me.
- ESKEMA0
^^ I don't give a fuck about the quality of (mt). I never had hosting with them. What I see is maybe trouble for QBN. They don't have the (mt) logo down there ↙ for nothing (or have they?). Partnerships that were in place may simply disappear, and with the the huge amount of giving a fuck the owners of this site have demonstrated lately, I don't see them spending big bucks with hosting in the future. We'll see how this turns out. Maybe everything jstays the same, but there is reason for concern here...
- It would be hard to overestimate the amount of hosting packages this logo sold here. It stays.shaft
- shaft0
You make it seem as if (mt) hosting was the golden standard. Well it wasn't . If you ask me, I'd tell you that you thought it was good because it had a tight website and was expensive.
If I had a beer every time in the last decade I heard a designer say "I need to finish my portfolio, just bought a hosting package on (mt), they're the best, right?", I'd have a liver failure by now.
Time and again, people who work in marketing (that's you QBN'rs), bought into good marketing. Not saying it's a bad thing, mind.
No, they weren't the best hosting company out there. They were ok, but with a history of problems. I read many comments yesterday saying GoDaddy was actually more reliable in comparison. So there.
In the end, I'll quote a classic:
"Nothing is fucked here, Dude. Come on, you're being very un-Dude."- < this.utopian
- I've only experienced one time GoDaddy failed on me in the last 10 years.monospaced
- "GoDaddy was actually more reliable..."
I was nodding my head in agreement up until that lineukit2 - That's just random opinions from yesterday, I never used either for hosting, so couldn't tell myself.shaft
- yurimon0
You know what this means? QBN could be sold anytime also...
Hmmm... Maybe a financial company who wants the domain?...http://www.quandel.com/company/q…
Query by Navigation?
- arne0
no idea whether there is any coherence, but »life« in »hosting for life« recently turned out not to refer to my life but to the server's. and now it dies by end of the year, so i have to move away from mt and look for an affordable alternative, which is a real pity. of course i wouldn't complain about a gift anyway, but i actually can't share any discontent. everything worked fine with the server and i always received good and fast support from mt over the years.
- albums0
Media Temple
RANK:3604
3-YEAR GROWTH:84%
2012 REVENUE:$52.3 million
2009 REVENUE:$28.5 million
- uuuuuu0
since they never announced the price and terms what are your best guesstimates?
- prophetone0
MT is fine for now. Had bad times with other hosts, not so much MT. Maybe this will have zero effect.
- ukit20
This is interesting, QBN connection to MT
- ohhhhhsnap0
i loled "GoDaddy has been transformed in recent months and is essentially a new company. If we did not like what we have seen, we would not have joined the GoDaddy family. They have overhauled their leadership team and attracted tech talent from the best-of-the-best. We love “the new GoDaddy” that CEO Blake Irving and his team have created, especially their new approach with advertising, product focus and UX."
- yurimon0
Greetings,I am proud to share some momentous news with you today. GoDaddy, the Internet's largest platform for small businesses, has acquired (mt) Media Temple. We will continue operating as an independent and autonomous company and our mission will remain unchanged. However, new investments from GoDaddy will provide us the necessary resources to strengthen our focus on web professionals and will help accelerate our plans to expand internationally.
At Media Temple, we've always been on a mission to provide the highest quality service at the lowest possible price. When I co-founded the company in 1998, I saw an industry that wasn't meeting the needs of web designers all that well. At one extreme, there was expensive and overly-complex dedicated hosting that required customers to over-build their solutions. At the other extreme, there was incredibly cheap "unlimited" hosting that was untrustworthy and lacked class and transparency. At neither end was there a company truly qualified to understand and partner with the creative community.
Thanks to incredible customers like you, our model worked out. We've doubled-down on designers and have created a new platform to help people push the outer limits of the web. Now with 225 employees, Media Temple serves 125,000 customers making up more than 1.5 million websites in over 100 countries. We are proud to be one of Los Angeles' original startups, repeatedly recognized as one of the best places to work in the city — and one of the fastest-growing companies in the world.
Personally, working with GoDaddy on the acquisition this year has been unexpected, yet incredibly rewarding. Led by new CEO Blake Irving, the GoDaddy leadership team, which now includes Media Temple's President, Russell P. Reeder, is transforming the company with fresh thinking, new advertising, and an inspiring new strategy. It really is impressive, and so is their new mission: "Help small businesses easily start, confidently grow, and successfully run their online ventures."
Though our customers have traditionally been very different, both companies have similar priorities of providing excellent service experiences. However, we also understand and respect the vast differences and needs of our respective customer bases. Hence, Media Temple will continue to run as an independent business and is not being integrated into GoDaddy. Our customers should not experience any changes to their service levels, pricing, or the expert support we are known for. We're not moving our servers, and the phone number is not changing. We will remain in Los Angeles and will stay committed to being the most amazing hosting provider possible. In all seriousness, our mission to host great ideas feels like it's just getting started!
I am confident that Media Temple has made the right decision and I know the company is only going to get better from here. Please see our website FAQ to understand this news even further. If you have any questions or comments, please let us know at .
Thank you so very much for your passion, your feedback, and your support over the years.
Best regards,
Demian Sellfors
(mt) Media Temple Co-founder
- ETM0
Anyone with a bad experiences on managed/VPS boxes? Seems like only Grid is the gong show. It's night and day between Grid and the other services, in my experience. Support has been responsive as well. Seems like they treat the Grid like the ghetto or something.
