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PressNomics 4 set for March 3-4, 2016

Brian Krogsgard

July 6, 2015

PressNomics 4 is set. You can (and should) start planning to visit sunny Phoenix March 3-4th next year. This is one of the best events of the year, and probably the best event for business oriented WordPress professionals. I launched…

Enterprise hosting options

Brian Krogsgard

June 17, 2015

Hosting

Chris Lema wrote a post sharing his experiences with enterprise hosting options for WordPress, specifically options beyond WordPress.com VIP, which is often folks' go-to recommendation. He covers three specifically: Microsoft Azure: They have a long history of enterprise products and…

Amazon Aurora is some kind of…

Brian Krogsgard

June 5, 2015

Amazon Aurora is some kind of crazy high-tech Amazon relational database project that's MySQL-compatible, meaning it requires no modifications. Dang. Pagely CEO Joshua Strebel pointed this out to me, I think while licking his chops, considering his platform is on…

WP Engine and Pagely taking different routes but both are growing

Brian Krogsgard

March 25, 2015

Hosting

WP Engine and Pagely both had announcements on growth today. WP Engine announced that they raised $23 million dollars to enable them to hire faster and expand their product base. When I covered them as in late 2013, they were…

I ripped off PressNomics

Brian Krogsgard

January 26, 2015

Business

Fresh and rested after PressNomics, today I'm reflecting on the WordPress business event that's made such a name for itself. After finally making it myself, on its third iteration, I can tell you that I now know what all the fuss is about. Here are just a few of my takeaways.

5 years into business, Pagely is growing faster than ever

Brian Krogsgard

October 8, 2014

BusinessDesign

Pagely is celebrating their fifth year of business right now. They have just launched their newly designed website (note to early readers: it's in process of launching at this moment, so some links may not work until later today) to…

PressNomics 3, the economics of WordPress conference, is January 22nd – January 24th

Brian Krogsgard

June 18, 2014

BusinessWordPress News

Dates have just been announced for the next PressNomics. PressNomics' third edition will be held in Tempe, Arizona, January 22nd through January 24th. The first two iterations of this conference, which is essentially the official unofficial WordPress business conference, were…

Pagely has new plans, a new dashboard, and a new Amazon Web Services infrastructure

Brian Krogsgard

May 27, 2014

BusinessHosting

Pagely has made some drastic changes to their hosting platform over the last few months. They've moved from Firehost to being fully powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS), led by their new CTO, Joshua Eichorn. Measuring tiers of hosting by…

Barley for WordPress is a simple and effective inline editor

Brian Krogsgard

November 26, 2013

HostingWordPress News

I've had an opportunity to play with Barley for WordPress, an inline editor plugin. Barley is a two-sided product. Barley is a hosted, PHP based CMS, and Barley for WordPress is a WordPress plugin that extends the hosted Barley editing…

An honest Pagely review

Brian Krogsgard

July 24, 2013

Hosting

I have to admit, when I saw that Raelene at WPMU was going to start a series of reviews on hosting providers, I was skeptical. After all, most hosting reviews suck. But I have to say, she did a great job…

Pressnomics, the WordPress business conference, to be held October 17-19th

Brian Krogsgard

May 7, 2013

BusinessWordPress News

Pressnomics has announced the dates for its second annual event. The WordPress business conference will be held October 17th-19th, in Phoenix, Arizona. The conference, started by Pagely founders Joshua and Sally Strebel, was a huge hit last year, according to…