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WP Engine rebrands and restructures

Brian Krogsgard

October 8, 2013

Few brands in tech have skyrocketed in exposure like WP Engine in the past couple of years. WP Engine has experienced massive growth, and they are showing signs of acting very much like a grown up company. Rebranding WP Engine…

Behind churchthemes.com

Brian Krogsgard

September 26, 2013

BusinessHosting

I've written a non-traditional "launch post" for churchthemes.com, telling the story of how this theme shop came together in the last year. Included are thoughts and experiences relating to business, development philosophy, pricing models, web hosting and marketing.

Nginx is taking over the internet, and Automattic helped make it happen

Brian Krogsgard

September 6, 2013

Hosting

This is a nice backstory from Wired on the rise of Nginx, with a focus on how Automattic got involved in the project when they started using it for WordPress.com. Now, Nginx is powering 15 percent of all websites. I especially…

Performance of 7 top shared WordPress hosts compared

Brian Krogsgard

August 9, 2013

Hosting

Ryan Sullivan compared seven popular hosting companies' shared environments for his experiment to see which ones were performing well and which weren't. I love Ryan's views on hosting, and trust his experiment. This is a valuable resource. However, I'd really…

An honest Pagely review

Brian Krogsgard

July 24, 2013

Hosting

I have to admit, when I saw that Raelene at WPMU was going to start a series of reviews on hosting providers, I was skeptical. After all, most hosting reviews suck. But I have to say, she did a great job…

The problem with almost all hosting reviews

Brian Krogsgard

July 18, 2013

Hosting

Ryan Sullivan exposes the sad truth about most hosting reviews on his WP Site Care blog. Frankly, few are truly genuine or considerate of various potential needs customers may have. I could not agree more with his post. Sure, there…

The WP Conf to “fork” WordCamp Los Angeles

Brian Krogsgard

July 16, 2013

HostingWordPress News

I was tagged in a tweet by Brad Williams that referenced The WP Conf, which is currently only a half-finished website, but is an independent WordPress conference slated for late this year, and calls itself, "a WordPress conference forked from…

Page.ly acquired BlogDroid

Brian Krogsgard

June 26, 2013

HostingWordPress News

Page.ly, the oldest managed WordPress hosting provider, has acquired BlogDroid. BlogDroid is a newer player in the WordPress managed hosting market. According to Page.ly's blog post, it was an all cash deal for the acquisition.

How much are the big WordPress companies making?

Brian Krogsgard

June 18, 2013

BusinessHosting

It's a question many of us have pondered. Just how much money do these "big" WordPress product companies make? WooThemes, Copyblogger (makers of StudioPress), Gravity Forms, WP Engine, Sucuri, and many more companies are clearly making significant revenues compared to…

The Mojo Marketplace integrates with Bluehost cPanel

Brian Krogsgard

June 5, 2013

HostingWordPress News

The Mojo team has teased work they've collaborated on with Bluehost that will offer Mojo products within the cPanel dashboard of Bluehost accounts. The integration includes single sign-on between a Bluehost account and Mojo, as well as one-click buying from…

DreamHost targets managed WordPress hosts with DreamPress

Brian Krogsgard

June 4, 2013

HostingWordPress News

DreamHost has announced a "highly optimized, extremely reliable managed WordPress service" using managed VPS instances on "tuned-for-WordPress" servers. They're also including automatic updates and some other WordPress specific features. It seems they are pretty clearly going after the growing market that so far…

Google wants you to host your WordPress site in their cloud

Brian Krogsgard

May 17, 2013

HostingWordPress News

Google has added PHP to their App Engine services, enabling PHP based apps to be run in their cloud service. I saw various tweets and articles that noted they specifically made sure WordPress would be able to perform in the…

Ludicrous speed: WordPress caching with Redis

Brian Krogsgard

May 11, 2013

Hosting

WordPress, loaded through Nginx is fast. Placing a Redis-powered page cache in front of WordPress is even faster. How much faster? Pages are returned in < 10ms.

New WordPress host, Flywheel, raises funding

Brian Krogsgard

May 6, 2013

Hosting

In an interview on Silicon Prairie News, Flywheel hosting has announced that they received funding for their WordPress hosting startup. It's worth noting that Silicon Prairie News and Flywheel share a co-founder, so the article seems very much like self-promotion.…

ZippyKid partners with Google PageSpeed

Brian Krogsgard

April 23, 2013

Hosting

ZippyKid has partnered with Google PageSpeed to "automatically apply web performance best practices" to their WordPress sites. The test cases look pretty promising.

VIP Developer Workshop

Brian Krogsgard

March 28, 2013

HostingWordPress News

WordPress.com VIP is hosting another developer workshop this year, offering two+ days of hardcore WordPress training from Automattic's VIP team. It's a great opportunity, and comes with a hefty price tag. It'll set you back $3600, but does including hotel…

WP Engine rebrands and restructures

Behind churchthemes.com

Nginx is taking over the internet, and Automattic helped make it happen

Performance of 7 top shared WordPress hosts compared

An honest Pagely review

The problem with almost all hosting reviews

The WP Conf to “fork” WordCamp Los Angeles

Page.ly acquired BlogDroid

How much are the big WordPress companies making?

The Mojo Marketplace integrates with Bluehost cPanel

DreamHost targets managed WordPress hosts with DreamPress

Google wants you to host your WordPress site in their cloud

Ludicrous speed: WordPress caching with Redis

New WordPress host, Flywheel, raises funding

ZippyKid partners with Google PageSpeed

VIP Developer Workshop

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