Digital Ocean

Is this a WordPress Acquisition?

Dan Knauss

August 25, 2022

DigitalOcean's acquisition of Cloudways is an investment in the WordPress ecosystem with an emphasis on "digital agencies, eCommerce sites, bloggers, freelance developers and builders hosting on WordPress."

CSS Tricks Sale Price: $4M

Cory Miller

August 5, 2022

BusinessNotes

Acquired in January, CSS-Tricks founder Chris Coyier, who was also a member here, ran that publication for 15 years before capitalizing on search traffic to sell to Digital Ocean — for $4 million (USD). They Got Acquired got that number…

Post Status Notes #490

David Bisset

March 17, 2022

BusinessDesign

Newfold acquires YITH, Hostopia. Wordfence stops FastOrSlow.com. DigitalOcean acquires CSS-tricks. Tips and tricks for WordPress devs.

Also in PHP 7 land, WordPress…

Brian Krogsgard

December 12, 2016

Also in PHP 7 land, WordPress core committer Joe McGill documented his process of upgrading a Digital Ocean droplet on WordPress to PHP 7, and from HTTP to HTTPS. I think his definition of easy is different than mine, but…

Follow-up on Server Pilot

Brian Krogsgard

April 27, 2016

BusinessHosting

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,…

Server Pilot on top of Digital Ocean

Brian Krogsgard

April 21, 2016

Hosting

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…

GoDaddy targets Digital Ocean with new cloud infrastructure

Brian Krogsgard

March 21, 2016

Business

GoDaddy is targeting products by companies like Digital Ocean and Amazon with their new by-the-hour Cloud Services and Apps project. The pricing is pretty much a direct mirror of Digital Ocean's right now (starts at $5 per month), and they…

Well, this is a bit scary.…

February 12, 2016

Well, this is a bit scary. Freek Van der Herten shares how Digital Ocean deleted his entire server. Wham, gone. Amazingly, his advice isn't to not use Digital Ocean, but just to know the risks of the cheap VPS provider,…

Bitnami and Digital Ocean have partnered…

Brian Krogsgard

August 12, 2015

Bitnami and Digital Ocean have partnered up, Techcrunch reports, and now you can access the wealth of Bitnami's application install packages with your Digital Ocean account. It's more thorough than Digital Ocean's packages and a good option for more catered WordPress…

WP Stagecoach launches with host agnostic staging site tool

Brian Krogsgard

June 1, 2015

BusinessHosting

WP Stagecoach is a tool that's been in development, alpha, and beta testing for around two years. It's a host agnostic tool that allows website owners to create staging sites and merge changes back to the live site. Morgan Kay announced…

Tips for managing WordPress on Digital Ocean

Brian Krogsgard

March 4, 2015

Devin Price always comes up with handy tips for tinkering developers. In this post, he puts together some nice tips for some common WordPress tasks you may encounter when managing a site on a Digital Ocean server. Most of the tasks…