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Chris Lauzon, the interim CEO of…

Brian Krogsgard

October 11, 2016

Chris Lauzon, the interim CEO of Pressable, recently shared his reflections on his first year at the company. A year ago, Chris was leading a support team for Automattic, and now he's gained some really valuable experience turning a hosting company around.…

Shifter is a “serverless hosting solution…

Brian Krogsgard

October 11, 2016

Hosting

Shifter is a "serverless hosting solution for WordPress." According to the website, it "seamlessly transforms your site into a series of static HTML files," and they aim to be both the generator and the host of the generated files. It's…

SiteGround expands remote support with 32 former Site5 team members

Brian Krogsgard

October 11, 2016

Hosting

SiteGround's team has been almost exclusively based out of their offices in Bulgaria until now. Lilyana Yakimova announced on their blog that they have hired 32 former support personnel from Site5, employees whom hail from 10 countries, including the United States. Site5…

Pagely is celebrating their seven year anniversary. Joshua…

Brian Krogsgard

September 30, 2016

Hosting

Pagely is celebrating their seven year anniversary. Joshua Strebel reflects on seven years of the managed WordPress hosting industry that his team started, and also looks into the future. WP101 is also celebrating a birthday -- a whopping eight years -- and Shawn Hesketh says…

ReviewSignal’s annual WordPress hosting results takeaways

Brian Krogsgard

September 14, 2016

HostingSecurity

Kevin Ohashi does the best WordPress hosting technical analysis out there. He's just come out with his 2016 benchmarks, which are the culmination of months of testing twenty six companies, across six price tiers, with five different methodologies. In addition…

Dennis Cooper, whose Blogger-hosted site received attention…

Brian Krogsgard

September 7, 2016

Hosting

Dennis Cooper, whose Blogger-hosted site received attention recently after being disabled without warning, is now back online and on WordPress. A 10 year old blog post was what brought down the site. This is rightly being used as a prime example of why…

GoDaddy has acquired ManageWP

Brian Krogsgard

September 3, 2016

BusinessHosting

GoDaddy has acquired the WordPress website management service, ManageWP. ManageWP will remain a standalone app, and GoDaddy will integrate several features into their GoDaddy Pro and WordPress hosting plans.

iThemes Security Pro introduces a new…

Brian Krogsgard

August 31, 2016

HostingSecurity

iThemes Security Pro introduces a new feature – WordPress version management. This feature automatically updates your site to new versions of WordPress, along with themes and plugins, and has the ability to, “scan for other out of date WordPress sites,” on…

Static site generators versus WordPress

Sonya Mann

August 23, 2016

HostingPlanet

WordPress is the dominant method to build and manage a website, but static site generators are surging in popularity amongst developers and for certain types of websites.

Private equity is getting closer to the hosting business

Brian Krogsgard

August 10, 2016

Hosting

Last year, private equity firm Madison Dearborn Partners bought Liquid Web. This week, it was announced that Rackspace -- rumored to also be on the verge of full-out purchase by private equity -- sold their "cloud" division to Liquid Web.…

Pantheon has raised $29 million to…

Brian Krogsgard

July 25, 2016

Hosting

Pantheon has raised $29 million to invest more into their WordPress and Drupal hosting platform, with a Series C round, totaling $57 million to date. As is noted in the article, and said to me by a Pantheon employee, they…

ManageWP’s new platform, “Orion”, is now live, includes new pricing

Brian Krogsgard

July 18, 2016

Hosting

ManageWP has long been a leader in the small group of businesses that want to help you manage your WordPress installs from one place. The six year old service has gone through a long development phase, where they rebuilt everything…

WordCamp Europe takeaways

Brian Krogsgard

July 8, 2016

BusinessDesign

After a whirlwind WordCamp Europe, I've had some time to sit back and consider some of the common conversational threads. When a big group of people gets together in the WordPress space, you can start to identify what folks are…

Four questions with Andy Wilkerson, on his UpThemes purchase

Brian Krogsgard

June 17, 2016

BusinessDesign

I did an email based interview with Andy Wilkerson -- owner of Parallelus and acquirer of UpThemes -- to learn more about the decision to purchase the small theme shop. Here it is (I added links where it helps): Why…

Hostadvice, a blog focused on the…

Brian Krogsgard

June 14, 2016

Hosting

Hostadvice, a blog focused on the hosting industry, has an interview with Tenko Nikolov - CEO of SiteGround. It's nice insight to the leader of one of the more popular hosting companies that caters to WordPress. SiteGround is 12 years old, which may…

Most WordPress websites probably use phpMyAdmin (via hosting…

Brian Krogsgard

June 14, 2016

HostingSecurity

Most WordPress websites probably use phpMyAdmin (via hosting providers), so it's nice to see that they successfully completed a security audit as part of Mozilla's Secure Open Source Fund. This fund is new to me, and looks like a great initiative.

Chris Lauzon, the interim CEO of…

Shifter is a “serverless hosting solution…

SiteGround expands remote support with 32 former Site5 team members

Pagely is celebrating their seven year anniversary. Joshua…

ReviewSignal’s annual WordPress hosting results takeaways

Dennis Cooper, whose Blogger-hosted site received attention…

GoDaddy has acquired ManageWP

iThemes Security Pro introduces a new…

Static site generators versus WordPress

Private equity is getting closer to the hosting business

Pantheon has raised $29 million to…

ManageWP’s new platform, “Orion”, is now live, includes new pricing

WordCamp Europe takeaways

Four questions with Andy Wilkerson, on his UpThemes purchase

Hostadvice, a blog focused on the…

Most WordPress websites probably use phpMyAdmin (via hosting…

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