Hot on the heels of Django GridContainer comes another hosting package, Media Temple has announced the availability of Designer Gift. It is a hosting package with details that to be stated on a physical card deliver to the users. You can buy this hosting package and send it as a “hosting gift card” to someone with the option to add a personalized note, such as Xmas Gift for you and one of the great promotion is, you can pick the shipping date.

As a promotion, for users who sign-up this package in this month, Media Temple will charge a user $95 for one (1) year. Compare to Grid-Service, the features are much relatively light-weighted, with storage up to 5GB and network transfer maximum to 500GB per month. These facilities are typically designed to provide space, power, and storage supporting services in a robust environment to house the small business Web sites. However, the activation for this hosting package will only start on this December 20. Meanwhile, you can visit their faq page for more information on this package.

Note: Media Temple provides hosting services for TagEdge.com.

Media Temple has announced the launch of the first phase of their Django GridContainer program. This program is currently in the beta phase, and potential testers can apply and participate in this program by visit the sign-up page and fill-up some common questions about Media Temple and Django. I’ve heard of Django for quite some time and I know it is a powerful Web framework for Python developers. As of present, there are more than 800 Web sites that powered by Django, as listed in djangosites. With the introduce of Django GridContainer, it will allow the existing Grid-Service customers including me to have our own dedicated Django server. This is an emerging technology but is not fully understood by all of its potential users, if you want to know more, there is some extra information on the Django GridContainer page.

The Django GridContainer utilizes lighttpd in front of FastCGI processes. Currently, lighttpd powered some popular Web 2.0 sites such as YouTube, Wikipedia, and etc and some argue that lighttpd can perform some complex tasks faster than another popular open source Apache Web server.

Note: Media Temple provides hosting services for TagEdge.com.

The competition of Web hosting industry is stiff, and we always choose a right Web hosting company to host our Web sites, or Web-based infrastructure by relying on pricing factor and the hosting facility. Media Temple, one of the well-known hosting companies in the U.S. is the first that offered their users to gain access their Media Temple Account through the tiny iPhone. I think their latest move to provide this service is not by coincidence, since the iPhone is selling like hot cake in the U.S.

From the iPhone, a Media Temple customer can buy a domain name, reboot a service, add new email address, submit support ticket, make payment, change password, give feedback, and etc. The control panel is the same as compared to one access it through the desktop computer. This feature could change the Web hosting world, and I expected more hosting companies will follow their footsteps by providing the hosting services for the iPhone users as well.

Note: Media Temple provides hosting services for TagEdge.com.

Finally, I have moved my blog, i.e. kennylee.wordpress.com to my own domain. All my blog posts of kennylee.wordpress.com have transferred to this site.

I bought TagEdge.com domain name as well as registered a new Media Temple account. In addition, I have done an installation of WordPress 2.0.4. this morning. During the migration process, I have encountered several problems in moving this blog. Here I want to say I deeply appreciated the generous advices from the Media Temple customer service and technical personnel and eventually the transfer from wordpress.com to this site was almost smooth.

Thank you and stay tuned.

Well. I received a call from my friend just a moment ago. He decided to host his site with Media Temple (MT). In fact, I told him a lot of good stuff that offered by MT. Although I have to mention that US$20 per month is quite pricey, but their support is great, as according to my friend. He even received call from MT after he signing up for its Web hosting program, due to his card decline :-). As an Asian, it is important that the customer service is superior as the Web hosting provider is not being located in Asia. I do not know what happen inside a Web hosting company. Perhaps I do not need to know, but if you choose a Web hosting company, you definitely will be pleased if someone there will call you whenever there’s a problem arise.

In this information age, I strongly believed the golden rule in conducting business is still the same as the old days, i.e. the quality of customer service is still very important!!!

Update: I moved my blog to host at Media Temple’s Grid Service.