Media Temple has finally hit their stride, and has introduced modern features on their Dedicated Virtual (dv) Servers.

Among the new changes/coolness:

• MySQL 5
• PHP 5 (only 1/2 day behind GoPHP5.org.
• CentOS 5
• Plesk 8.3
• Reduction of OS memory footprint for the (dv) Base by 30%
• Automatic tuning for both Web Server/Database heavy scenarios
• Python 2.3 pre-installed
• Ruby 1.8.6 pre-installed
• Improved Default Domain Page

Nice surprise for a mundane Wednesday!