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Some high-profile acquisitions to happen recently,…

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Dan Knauss
Some high-profile acquisitions to happen recently, first in the hosting space: InMotion Hosting announced its acquisition of RamNode.com, a provider of "affordable and high-performance" unmanaged VPS Hosting." Mike Demo comments on the deal: "InMotion now has an EU data center…

How Am I Bluehost to Live…

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Dan Knauss
How Am I Bluehost to Live Without You? POST STATUS SLACK EXCLUSIVE 🗨️ Morten Rand-Hendriksen noticed Bluehost appeared to be violating the WordPress Foundation's Trademark Policy by using the WordPress logo in an ad. A day later, Josepha Haden acknowledged…

POST STATUS SLACK EXCLUSIVE 🗨️ How…

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Dan Knauss
POST STATUS SLACK EXCLUSIVE 🗨️ How Am I Bluehost to Live Without You? Morten Rand-Hendriksen noticed Bluehost appeared to be violating the WordPress Foundation's Trademark Policy by using the WordPress logo in an ad. A day later, Josepha Haden acknowledged…

ReviewSignal, already known for its WordPress…

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Dan Knauss
ReviewSignal, already known for its WordPress Hosting Performance Benchmarks, recently added a separate performance analysis report for WooCommerce Hosting. Hosts specializing in WooCommerce — like GreenGeeks, Nestify, Pressable, Seravo, Servebolt, SiteGround, and Wetopi — are among those who participated in…

Your Feedback is Requested 👉 Andrea…

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Dan Knauss

Your Feedback is Requested 👉 Andrea Middleton is collecting topic suggestions from WordPress contributor teams for the WordPress User and Developer Survey, which didn't happen last year. The survey's goal is to gather the information that will help inform contributor…

ReviewSignal has published the 2019 version…

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Dan Knauss

ReviewSignal has published the 2019 version of the WordPress Hosting Performance Benchmarks report. It focuses only on performance, not features or anything else about the hosts that were tested. 💨 The tests are not (and never have been) sponsored, but…

Arman Zakaryan (Director of Hosting Operations…

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Dan Knauss

Arman Zakaryan (Director of Hosting Operations at Amazon) and Michael Martin (Pagely) talk about Amazon Aurora and how it can increase capacity on production workloads with WordPress sites.

🎓 WP Campus is still looking…

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Dan Knauss

🎓 WP Campus is still looking for a venue (preferably a college or university campus) to host their 2019 conference. Hosting WP Campus is a big opportunity to invest in higher education and edutech. Bring a great conference to your city!…

CodeInWP recently wrapped up their 2017…

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Brian Krogsgard
CodeInWP recently wrapped up their 2017 WordPress Hosting Survey, with 4700 responses. Some of the more interesting tidbits, at least to me: - GoDaddy was the most popular host, accounting for 15.3% of all responses, with the majority of them…

Two personnel announcements were made today,…

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Brian Krogsgard

Two personnel announcements were made today, and while I don't typically comment on such things anymore, I figured I would this time because they are both friends. Matt Medeiros took his first full time job in over a decade to…

I reported on GoDaddy’s likely acquisition…

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Brian Krogsgard

I reported on GoDaddy's likely acquisition of Host Europe Group last year, and touched more on GoDaddy's positions in general in my post about their Sucuri acquisition. They have just finalized the acquisition of HEG. These deals takes months to…

I like Ryan Sullivan’s post on…

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Brian Krogsgard

I like Ryan Sullivan's post on how WP Site Care is managing to put on a really awesome company retreat without throwing down a ridiculous amount of money. Hosting the meetup in a nice place, but off-season, is one of…

Make WordPress Hosting is the newest…

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Brian Krogsgard
Make WordPress Hosting is the newest Make WordPress sub site. Mike Schroder writes that the purpose of the site is so, "individuals with hosting experience can collaborate on best practices and tools for the WordPress community’s benefit." The site is…
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