WordPress hosting and the hosting industry.
I’ve written a non-traditional “launch post” for churchthemes.com, telling the story of how this theme shop came together in the last year. Included are thoughts and experiences relating to business, development philosophy, pricing models, web hosting and marketing.
This is a nice backstory from Wired on the rise of Nginx, with a focus on how Automattic got involved in the project when they started using it for WordPress.com. Now, Nginx is powering 15 percent of all websites. I especially like the note at the bottom of the article where the founder of Nginx cites…
Ryan Sullivan compared seven popular hosting companies’ shared environments for his experiment to see which ones were performing well and which weren’t. I love Ryan’s views on hosting, and trust his experiment. This is a valuable resource. However, I’d really love to see this experiment run every month for a year, to see how it…
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 with this one on Page.ly. It’s honest, straightforward, thorough, and does’t contain a single affiliate…
Ryan Sullivan exposes the sad truth about most hosting reviews on his WP Site Care blog. Frankly, few are truly genuine or considerate of various potential needs customers may have. I could not agree more with his post. Sure, there are some really great hosts and I think we can even safely recommend hosts we…
I was tagged in a tweet by Brad Williams that referenced The WP Conf, which is currently only a half-finished website, but is an independent WordPress conference slated for late this year, and calls itself, “a WordPress conference forked from WordCamp and WordCamp Los Angeles.” Based on intensive investigative journalism… er… I mean, based on…
Page.ly, the oldest managed WordPress hosting provider, has acquired BlogDroid. BlogDroid is a newer player in the WordPress managed hosting market. According to Page.ly’s blog post, it was an all cash deal for the acquisition.
It’s a question many of us have pondered. Just how much money do these “big” WordPress product companies make? WooThemes, Copyblogger (makers of StudioPress), Gravity Forms, WP Engine, Sucuri, and many more companies are clearly making significant revenues compared to one and two person businesses. But it’s rare you hear a business say specifically just…
The Mojo team has teased work they’ve collaborated on with Bluehost that will offer Mojo products within the cPanel dashboard of Bluehost accounts. The integration includes single sign-on between a Bluehost account and Mojo, as well as one-click buying from within cPanel. I have no idea what the financial particulars are for this deal, but…
DreamHost has announced a “highly optimized, extremely reliable managed WordPress service” using managed VPS instances on “tuned-for-WordPress” servers. They’re also including automatic updates and some other WordPress specific features. It seems they are pretty clearly going after the growing market that so far has flocked to the likes of WP Engine, Pagely, and ZippyKid. Their introductory price is…
Google has added PHP to their App Engine services, enabling PHP based apps to be run in their cloud service. I saw various tweets and articles that noted they specifically made sure WordPress would be able to perform in the App Engine environment. I’d be interested to see how it performs. h/t David Bisset on…
WordPress, loaded through Nginx is fast. Placing a Redis-powered page cache in front of WordPress is even faster. How much faster? Pages are returned in < 10ms.
In an interview on Silicon Prairie News, Flywheel hosting has announced that they received funding for their WordPress hosting startup. It’s worth noting that Silicon Prairie News and Flywheel share a co-founder, so the article seems very much like self-promotion. They didn’t even note how much they raised. Nevertheless, Flywheel is definitely targeting a specific…
ZippyKid has partnered with Google PageSpeed to “automatically apply web performance best practices” to their WordPress sites. The test cases look pretty promising.
WordPress.com VIP is hosting another developer workshop this year, offering two+ days of hardcore WordPress training from Automattic’s VIP team. It’s a great opportunity, and comes with a hefty price tag. It’ll set you back $3600, but does including hotel and most food.
Wptuts+ has created a WordPress resources page. It includes a variety of categories, including development tools, hosting recommendations, and reference websites. Many of the links are affiliates.
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