Teen Media Productions Blog » Announcements http://blog.teenmediaproductions.com Bringing You the Best of Teen Created Media Mon, 23 Mar 2009 13:04:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Server Migration http://blog.teenmediaproductions.com/announcements/server-migration/ http://blog.teenmediaproductions.com/announcements/server-migration/#comments Thu, 27 Nov 2008 19:46:17 +0000 Matt Pippen http://blog.teenmediaproductions.com/announcements/server-migration/ As many of you may know, (mt) Media Temple, our hosting provider, has been having a few issues regarding the server that some of our TMP sites/files are stored on. They have been taking aggressive action to combat the issues, and we have been analyzing our server load to optimize our sites and reduce our potiential impact on the problem.

One of the newest and largest ways we have done this is through a partial migration to a new server. Some TMP content, including our main site, has been moved to a new server. This should remove virtually all downtime and lag with the moved content.

We will be contacting hosting customers in the coming days to gauge the extent and impacts of (mt)’s issues.

As always, we strive to maintain the highest quality service and insure the satisfaction of our customers. We believe this additional investment shows our continuing work to this promise and why we are the #1 teen new media company.

If you have any questions or comments, please leave a comment on the post or use the TMP contact form.

Thank you for your continued support,
Matt Pippen, President/CEO
Teen Media Productions

Note: Our forums and wiki have been relocated in this process. They are now subdomains (e.g. forums.teenmediaproductions.com).

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You may have noticed our main website has been replaced by a splash screen. That’s because TMP is in the middle of designing and deploying our brand new site. This new website will make it easier to promote our members’ quality content; In addition, the site will also be a ton more organized and a bit more automated (but maintaining our personal touch). It will also bring several big changes to TMP that will mean bigger opportunities to our members. However, we will start mentioning those as the new site is launched. We hope you enjoy the preview. Feel free to click the image for a closer look.

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TMP Hosting will now be splitting into divisions that will each better serve their purpose. The current TMP Hosting service will now go by TMP Hosting – Premium. Our new service will be TMP Hosting – Free.

TMP Hosting – Premium will cover all the aspects of our current hosting service. No details of the plan will actually be changing, simply a name change. This remains as one of the most affordable and easy solutions for teens to host their podcast, blog, or website on the Internet.

TMP Hosting – Free is being introduced to those teens who want less intensive hosting. Customers will be offered a subdomain of teenmediaproductions, can run a Wordpress installation, and use our member email service. There will be some limitations, however, such as a slight limit to customization. Nothing more limiting then you would find with other services, such as Wordpress.com. What makes this service a step above is the community presence found within TMP.

More information will be coming shortly. If you would like to signup for TMP Hosting – Premium, you can continue to do so at teenmediaproductions.com/hosting. TMP Hosting – Free is taking applications starting today. You can apply for our free service by emailing hosting[at]teenmediaproductions[dot]com. Please include your contact info and use for the site (i.e. Blog, podcast, etc.). We will have a form up soon for the free service.

Thanks for your continued support,
Matt Pippen, President/CEO
Teen Media Productions

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The prank was at least able to generate some on Twitter to some degree. Many of you seriously believed. Some doubted. Then some went off on ‘It must be a prankz!!1!1!’ No matter how you reacted, we are glad that we have a very supportive and strong presence among the community, especially teens.

In the future we do hope to bring you real developments that will offer our members more benefits. In the end, TMP will not be making decisions based on money but on what’s right for our members. That includes being purchased.

Thanks,
Matt Pippen, President/CEO
Teen Media Productions

Note: I suggest you follow TMP’s Twitter if you want to stay up-to-date on our announcements.

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TMP and TPN will now be purchased by Podshow for $500,000. This is a greater offer then we have ever expected. This means a greater network as TMP/TPN will now be backed by today’s #1 new media network. Details are still pending around signing, but I can guarantee TMP/TPN staff will still be here. If you are considering joining TPN, now is the perfect time to do so.

However, it didn’t stop there. Very shortly after I started leaking news of the TMP/TPN purchase on Twitter, a company quickly took noticed and contacted me regarding TBN. I am proud to announce that TBN will be purchased by b5media for $50,000. I can not tell you how excited we are to have TBN now backed by a global blogging network with more than 8 million unique visitors a month. Transitions should be very smooth as we both use WordPress.

Most of the details surrounding the changes are still pending on us signing, but I can not be happier to bring you these tidbits of news today.

You will notice that our sites now contain the purchasing companies logo. They will remain in their current state until transfered over to the purchasing companies servers.

Thanks,
Matt Pippen, President/CEO
Teen Media Productions

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