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WordCamp US will have a WordPress-themed…

Dan Knauss

October 16, 2019

WordCamp US will have a WordPress-themed game show Saturday morning (November 2nd). If you are attending WordCamp US, join the fun and help support the young people who are hosting it. It will be fun! 🎉

Ashley Rich compares Digital Ocean, Google…

Dan Knauss

September 21, 2019

Hosting

Ashley Rich compares Digital Ocean, Google Cloud, and AWS for hosting WordPress sites way you might with SpinupWP or ServerPilot and their forthcoming HostLaunch platform. Digital Ocean won the matchup, but all three platforms were are pretty close, and the…

If you have heard the term…

Dan Knauss

September 21, 2019

BusinessHosting

If you have heard the term "serverless," but not much else, then John Demian's brief guide will help you get up to speed. John describes serverless hosting as "an event-based system for running code." In other words, services "create business…

Automattic — the maker of WordPress.com — has purchased Tumblr

Brian Krogsgard

August 12, 2019

BusinessHosting

Automattic has purchased Tumblr from Verizon, in a firesale move reported to be for less than $3 million. There is still value in the site, however, for Automattic.

Gary Pendergast announced a “baby step”…

Brian Krogsgard

August 9, 2019

Hosting

Gary Pendergast announced a "baby step" toward a better contributor experience in WordPress Core. Custom Docker images are now available for running WordPress on PHP versions 5.2 to 7.3. These images aren’t intended for hosting Docker-based WordPress sites but instead…

ServerPilot announced in June that they…

Dan Knauss

July 26, 2019

Hosting

ServerPilot announced in June that they are launching a new hosting automation service called HostLaunch. It's meant to be a "platform for operating a modern web hosting company." It's a "customer-facing portal for your users to create their own accounts,…

Mary Ann Azevedo from Crunchbase makes…

Dan Knauss

July 23, 2019

Hosting

Mary Ann Azevedo from Crunchbase makes the case that the WordPress hosting space may simultaneously be one of the most lucrative — yet underfunded — industries. 💸

Tidy Repo made a speed comparison…

Dan Knauss

July 23, 2019

Hosting

Tidy Repo made a speed comparison of 100 WordPress themes. The tests were limited to free themes in the WordPress repo, so popular commercial themes were not featured. Because of the variables involved — including your hosting and installed plugins…

Everyone’s Going Local 🏠 Josh Koenig…

Dan Knauss

July 5, 2019

Hosting

Everyone's Going Local 🏠 Josh Koenig announced the first release of Pantheon Localdev, a local dev app for the Mac (Windows and Linux "coming soon") that is built on top of Docker and Lando with a GUI for working on sites…

WP Engine acquires Flywheel

Brian Krogsgard

June 26, 2019

BusinessHosting

WP Engine has acquired Flywheel -- which boasts more than 200 employees and $18 million in revenue. WP Engine is setting the stage for an IPO in the next couple years.

Introducing Team Membership

Brian Krogsgard

June 25, 2019

DesignHosting

Team Memberships are a new way to support Post Status and provide continuous education and excellent community insights for your entire organization.

For a few hours on Tuesday,…

Dan Knauss

June 20, 2019

Hosting

For a few hours on Tuesday, June 11th, technical issues with WordPress VIP hosting resulted in some prominent and apparently "headless" sites showing the default WordPress Twenty Seventeen theme. 🧯

Chris Lema is hosting a virtual…

Dan Knauss

June 13, 2019

Hosting

Chris Lema is hosting a virtual summit for companies "trying to hit the one million dollar milestone" on June 18th. He is joined by Carrie Wheeler (COO, Liquid Web), Nathan Ingram (iThemes), Chris Teitzel (Founder/CEO, Lockr), and others. 💲

Pantheon announced it has acquired Staging Pilot. 👩‍✈️…

Dan Knauss

May 31, 2019

Hosting

Pantheon announced it has acquired Staging Pilot. 👩‍✈️ Staging Pilot is a service that helps you set up a server (while installing WordPress if you wish) by installing all the required software automatically, including PHP, database services and the web server itself.…

An Interview with Reyes Martínez of Frontity — a new WordPress framework

Dan Knauss

May 3, 2019

BusinessHosting

Reyes Martínez directs Digital Marketing and Communications at Frontity. She gave us some background and answered a few of our questions about the company and the project.