Digital Ocean

Is this a WordPress Acquisition?

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Dan Knauss
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

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Cory Miller
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

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

Also in PHP 7 land, WordPress…

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Brian Krogsgard

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

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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,…

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…

GoDaddy targets Digital Ocean with new cloud infrastructure

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Brian Krogsgard
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.…

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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…

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Brian Krogsgard

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…

Tips for managing WordPress on Digital Ocean

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Brian Krogsgard

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…
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