1998 founder demian sellfors john carey headquarters los angeles california united states area served worldwide key people rod stoddard president services website hosting cloud hosting revenue us 52.3 million 2012 1 number of employees 225 2013 2 parent godaddy website www.mediatemple.net media temple is a website hosting and cloud hosting provider which focuses on web designers developers and creative agencies . 3 4 5 6 the company was founded in 1998 by former ceo demian sellfors and john carey . 7 8 it is headquartered in los angeles california . media temple was acquired by godaddy in october 2013 2 9 10 but it keeps operating as an independent company . 9 10 history edit 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 . 6 16 reeder was president and ceo of libredigital prior to rr donnelley s acquisition of the digital publishing company in 2011 . 6 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 at that point it also started providing real time customer service and sales through livechat minimizing role of previously used phone and email . 18 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 . 4 5 19 20 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 . 5 19 on october 15 2013 media temple was acquired by godaddy 2 9 10 but both companies have kept operating separately since then . 21 in march 2014 media temple unveiled a new managed wordpress hosting product 22 which the company further expanded in may 2014 . 23 in february 2015 media temple s managed wordpress offering evolved into a full featured solution with four new customized plans . 24 in december 2014 the web hosting company joined google for work partner program to resell and support google apps for work . 25 in july 2015 media temple joined the aws advanced consulting partner program and launched new managed cloud hosting services for aws . 26 that same month rod stoddard joined the company as its new president . 27 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 . 28 29 in may 2016 media temple unveiled a new enterprise grade wordpress offering powered by amazon web services aws . 30 31 32 33 34 references edit media temple . inc. retrieved nov 11 2013 . a b c ingrid lunden oct 15 2013 . godaddy buys media temple to build up its business with web professionals . techcrunch . retrieved nov 11 2013 . hayley ringle oct 15 2013 . godaddy acquires media temple to better serve web developers . phoenix business journal . retrieved nov 11 2013 . a b stephanie condon oct 7 2013 . after rocky start administration says obamacare site has improved . cbs news . retrieved nov 11 2013 . a b c christopher weaver ; 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