5 years into business, Pagely is growing faster than ever

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Written By Brian Krogsgard

12 thoughts on “5 years into business, Pagely is growing faster than ever”

  1. Thanks Brian for writing a very informative article regarding Pagely. We are very excited about our growth because it is true growth generated by our beloved clients and not fudged by funding.

    I just want to clarify that although we are going up market, we are not targeting any other hosts. When we started managed WordPress hosting, the next competitor, who came along 2 years later, validated what we were doing. As we’ve always said, there’s enough to go around for everyone. Luckily not everyone wants the same things.

    Thanks again.

  2. It’s impressive that Pagely has bootstrapped this. I got a real chuckle out of their investors page. I almost feel like I got Rickrolled, in a good way (I actually like that song). I’m glad to hear they’re growing so much. I started noticing a lot of testimonials from big name WordPress players earlier this year and that seems to have snowballed.

    Thank you for mentioning HostingReviews.io. It’s been interesting to see that customers of companies that focus specifically on managed WordPress hosting are in general happier than customers using other types of hosting. The WordPress name is attached to these companies so I like hearing that people are getting what they pay for.

    You mentioned “managed WordPress hosting” being a term that’s here to stay. I am concerned about that term being abused by big shared hosts who may see it primarily as a marketing term more than a promise of what is to be delivered.

  3. I know you flagged there might be some teething issues looking at the new site for early readers of this post but does this really inspire confidence in a hosting company when their relaunched homepage looks like this for me?

    http://goo.gl/bxD2uN

    No excuse to have something like that happen in 2014! Especially for a top class managed hosting service.

    • Hey Colm,

      I think it was just a short term propagation issue. Not really worth getting a tizzy about.

      • Hey Brian,

        fair enough 🙂
        issue is definitely gone now on my end too.

        Now that I can see it – it looks like they’ve upped their game big time with this revamp.

        Nice write up 🙂

  4. Even if they’re all on the rise on HostingReviews.io, it strikes me as confusing and possibly misleading to mention SiteGround in the same sentence as Pagely and Pantheon. The latter are fairly similar for the reasons you mentioned, but SiteGround is a different creature in a different market with its own distinct strengths there.

    Thanks for drawing attention to HostingReviews.io — it’s fantastic, and I hope to see it grow. It would be great to see how things look with a few years of data and an in-depth critical profile for each host. It’s interesting to see how much lower linode and digital ocean rate compared to other hosts who build their service on linode and DO servers. That too might reflect an apple to oranges comparison.

  5. Well, at least you warned us recently that you need money Brian. I guess this is the first in a (long) line of paid posts? 🙁 I can understand that but I think it would be fair to mark it clearly as an advertisement.

    • Jason,

      I wasn’t paid a penny to write this and it is in no way an advertisement. It’s just a story about a growing company that performed a rebranding, and inline with others I’ve done before.

  6. I’ve been on WP Engine for almost a year and certainly enjoy their service, but I’m not too keen on their pageviews limit, which can quickly be consumed just by registration or comment spam, so I’ve been growing weary of them and have been looking for a replacement.

    I noticed that Chris Lema switched over to page.ly lately, so I looked into it, but I’m just not happy with their pricing models. I apparently fall into an awkward spot, where I have more than 3 websites, but the next plan up is for 10 websites @ $150/mo. That’s a hard pill to swallow, when I had trouble enough justifying $100/mo for WP Engine for the same number of sites. I’ve been looking at Flywheel as a potential replacement, given their great service, and their larger pageview limits, but it certainly would be nice to find a reasonably priced managed WP host without a pageview limit.

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