Now Live: Media Temple’s New Managed Shared Hosting Solution

Furthering our commitment to providing our customers with premium solutions that simplify their lives, we are excited to announce that we have refreshed Grid, our shared hosting platform. We built on what made Grid so unique, namely its out-of-the-box readiness, state-of-the-art clustered architecture and auto-burst capabilities and we added a lot of architecture and feature upgrades to turn it into an even more powerful (and now managed) hosting solution – still backed, day and night, by our premium customer support.

In order to better meet all the different needs of our customers, we rolled out three new plans – each allowing users to easily expand resources as their needs evolve by adding on one of our new Booster Packs (each Booster Pack provides 10 additional sites, 10GB SSD storage and 1TB bandwidth).

The base plan, Grid Pro, starts at just $30 per month and provides the headache-proof, yet highly reliable and scalable, shared hosting that freelance web designers and developers want – adorned with out-of-the box add-ons like CDN (Content Delivery Network), Google Apps for Work productivity tools, a plethora of new security features, and 30 days of backups.

The next plan, Grid Agency, builds on the Grid Pro features but caters to smaller creative agencies by offering them additional resources and greater protection from security vulnerabilities, including a Web Application Firewall (WAF) that prevents harmful traffic from reaching any site by siphoning out malicious bots, spammers, and website scrappers.

Finally, Grid Agency+ combines the power of Grid Agency with white glove setup, security and performance monitoring, as well as consulting services by our award-winning team of engineers, CloudTech, to bring round-the-clock peace of mind to mid-sized agencies.

All our new managed shared hosting plans include:

• A simpler, more time-efficient user experience that boasts a more intuitive, fully responsive custom control panel; a streamlined onboarding process; a revamped file manager that enables quick upload, edit, and organization of files and folders; a new one-click application installer that provides an easy and quick way to install and manage apps; as well as Google Apps for Work.

• Higher reliability and scalability: In addition to Grid’s existing clustered architecture and burstable resources (which keep sites and apps up 24/7 regardless of any intense traffic spikes) all plans come with generous compute resources, which reduces the overage risks. Additionally, with the introduction of the new Booster Packs, customers can seamlessly add on additional resources without having to change plans.

• Speed, speed, and more speed: Our Grid plans are built to run exclusively on next-generation hardware, featuring Solid State Drive (SSD) storage and SSD database for faster load times. All plans include TrueSpeed CDN, a global Content Delivery Network powered by industry leader in website security, SiteLock, that can increase website speed up to 40%.

• Managed shared hosting: Plan for peace of mind! All Grid plans meet the definition of software-managed. We’ve included: a library of 20 one-click apps that automatically update; SiteLock’s Secure Malware Alert and Removal Tool (SMART), which proactively scans websites for vulnerabilities 24/7 and automatically removes any detected threats; performance monitoring; and 30-days of backups – with the ability to restore files via the new file manager. All new plans are backed by our premium 24/7 customer support.   

Ready to experience one of the industry’s most robust managed shared hosting offerings? Find the Grid plan that’s right for you here.