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The steady move upmarket in WordPress hosting

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Brian Krogsgard
Media Temple is the latest company to offer an "enterprise" level WordPress hosting option. Their new offering is based on Amazon Web Services and starts at $2,500 per month. From TechCrunch: The standard enterprise plan costs $2,500 per month comes…

A new “Get WordPress” landing page is in the works

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Brian Krogsgard
A couple of months ago, Mark Uraine described the thinking behind what is now likely to be a new landing page at WordPress.org/get: For quite a while now, the meta team has been interested in improving the download and mobile pages…

If you liked those CSI shows…

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Brian Krogsgard
If you liked those CSI shows but wish it was hacker's code instead they were dissecting instead of corpses, then you'll love this detailed look into a spammer's script that infected a WordPress site on a shared hosting server.

The hosting world is a wild…

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Brian Krogsgard
The hosting world is a wild and scary place, and Kevin Ohashi, of Review Signal, takes you behind the scenes of what it's like being pitched by "slimy" hosts.

Follow-up on Server Pilot

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Brian Krogsgard
I talked to Justin Samuel, the CEO of Server Pilot, on the phone today, to do a bit of follow-up after my last post. I'm still intrigued by Server Pilot, which I see as unique in our space right now,…

It’s nice to see Sucuri is…

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It's nice to see Sucuri is offering SSL certificates to their customers at no charge with LetsEncrypt. With WordPress.com adopting SSL everywhere and ways you can currently installing a LetsEncrypt SSL on hosts like SiteGround, DreamHost, and Bluehost, I'm wondering…

Server Pilot on top of Digital Ocean

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Brian Krogsgard
This afternoon, I spent a few minutes playing with Server Pilot, after seeing is mentioned in Slack for at least the fifth time. Server Pilot offers a control panel and an API for managing WordPress installs on top of Digital…

A Day of REST is going to Boston

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Brian Krogsgard
The second A Day of REST conference will be in Boston, Massachusetts. The event will cover the WordPress REST API in-depth, with talks and workshops from leaders in the community. It will be co-organized by Human Made and Post Status.

Managed WordPress hosting provider FlyWheel has…

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Managed WordPress hosting provider FlyWheel has raised a $4 million Series A round. They last raised $1.2 million over a year ago. The TechCrunch article states that FlyWheel has about 40,000 paying customers.

Medium is releasing “Medium for Publishers”…

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Medium is releasing "Medium for Publishers" which provides publishers a "free CMS", a standalone URL, ability to host promoted posts, and paid memberships functionality. It's being branded by some as a WordPress competitor, which is ridiculous. With Medium, you are still…

WordPress Hosting — Draft podcast

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Brian Krogsgard
In this episode, Joe and Brian talk all about WordPress hosting, including the different types of hosting that are available, our technical preferences, and some of the non-technical issues that surround hosting in the WordPress world.

Yet another survey for the WordPress recommended hosting page

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Brian Krogsgard
In discussing the Pressable story, a few folks have asked me about the WordPress recommended hosting page, and if Automattic's ownership of Pressable will affect that page. The answer is that I don't think so, but I don't know for sure. However,…
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