Jason Cohen, founder of WP Engine, on growing your company well — Draft Podcast
Brian Krogsgard
I talk to Jason Cohen, the founder of WP Engine, about his entrepreneurial journey, and how to grow a company in a healthy way.
Envato Hosted expands with revenue share for authors
Brian Krogsgard
Envato has expanded the hosting program they began piloting last December, which I covered at the time. Now it's expanded from two theme shops to twelve, including several of the most popular authors on the platform. Envato Hosted is now…
The ROI of WordCamp sponsorship
Brian Krogsgard
Tony Perez guest posted on WP Tavern about the ROI of WordCamp sponsorships. He provides great insight into the thinking behind sponsoring events, which is highly valuable for WordCamp organizers, business owners, and the broader WordPress community as well. Even as event…
SiteGround expands remote support with 32 former Site5 team members
Brian Krogsgard
SiteGround's team has been almost exclusively based out of their offices in Bulgaria until now. Lilyana Yakimova announced on their blog that they have hired 32 former support personnel from Site5, employees whom hail from 10 countries, including the United States. Site5…
One step closer to a more…
Brian Krogsgard
One step closer to a more secure web: FlyWheel is offering "simple" SSL at no additional charge. In addition, Let's Encrypt support is coming to WP Engine and customers should see that in the next few weeks, if they haven't…
ReviewSignal’s annual WordPress hosting results takeaways
Brian Krogsgard
Kevin Ohashi does the best WordPress hosting technical analysis out there. He's just come out with his 2016 benchmarks, which are the culmination of months of testing twenty six companies, across six price tiers, with five different methodologies. In addition…
I’ve never actually seen WP Engine…
Brian Krogsgard
I've never actually seen WP Engine referenced as a $100 million dollar revenue company before, but Jason Cohen did so last night.
Automattic has purchased a majority stake in Pressable
Brian Krogsgard
Automattic has taken over a majority stake in Pressable, the managed WordPress hosting company, with a purchase of Pressable CEO Vid Luther's shares of the company. They were already a significant investor.
Linode has finally followed up after…
Linode has finally followed up after their security brew-ha-ha that you may remember affected WP Engine not long ago. It doesn't say a ton and follows a pretty standard follow-up / PR script, but it's at least some closure for…
WP Engine breach was very likely via Linode
Brian Krogsgard
You could say that Linode has been a bit of a pain in WP Engine's ass lately. Linode is one of their service providers (they were their only/primary one for a long time, I believe), which basically means WP Engine…
WP Engine passed the buck to…
WP Engine passed the buck to an unnamed "cloud infrastructure provider" for their big security breach that sparked resetting all accounts on their system. To me, this is still not enough information. Also, I would want to know when they discovered about…
WP Engine requiring mass password reset on all accounts
Brian Krogsgard
WP Engine sent emails to all existing (and apparently many former) customers stating that they needed to reset every password associated with their account: While we have no evidence that the information was used inappropriately, as a precaution, we…
Enterprise hosting options
Brian Krogsgard
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…
WordPress News with Julie Kuehl
Brian Krogsgard
Julie Kuehl and I cover the week in WordPress news with a short format (15 minute) podcast. The Excerpt is part of the Draft podcast, and will be balanced by long form interviews. This week we talk about Shiny Installs, host growth, finding your place, and the REST API.
WP Engine and Pagely taking different routes but both are growing
Brian Krogsgard
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…
The evolution of 10up
Brian Krogsgard
The ecosystem of businesses that have been built around WordPress is huge, but shallow. Few companies are both large (relatively speaking) and central to a broad WordPress community. With 60+ employees, some of which are very well-known WordPress developers, 10up…
