Nexcess and Liquid Web have established a "partnership." That is an interesting word choice. What it means: "Liquid Web clients gaining access to the technology and scalability of Nexcess Cloud," and "Nexcess clients obtaining access to Liquid Web plans and…
Congratulations to my friend Cory Miller on a long and successful journey with iThemes. He's leaving Liquid Web to pave his own road again. Matt Danner is taking over the ship for iThemes -- a worthy captain.
Liquid Web has announced the acquisition of iThemes in an all cash deal that includes the entire iThemes team moving over to Liquid Web as an independent unit, and iThemes products will be included in various Liquid Web offerings.
Liquid Web announced the launch of its managed WooCommerce hosting, which has been in the works for some time. It will be interesting to see how other hosting companies respond. The hosted solution space — especially for eCommerce — is just…
Speaking of WooCommerce, Liquid Web has announced "Managed WooCommerce" hosting. As Chris Lema explains, "it's a total solution, not a single plugin." It isn't public yet, but they are accepting signups from interested parties. It does several things to help…
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'm super excited to finally be able to say that tickets for Publish 2017 are available. The event, as many of you already know, is in Atlanta, on August 3rd and 4th. That's a Thursday and Friday. Go straight to…
We have more big hosting news, again from Liquid Web. They've acquired WiredTree, the much beloved VPS service. According to Liquid Web's announcement, WiredTree customers will be migrated to their infrastructure. The post also says Liquid Web has 600 team…