DreamHost Removed from WordPress.org’s Recommended Hosting Page

[Jyolsna]

[See the full post at: DreamHost Removed from WordPress.org’s Recommended Hosting Page]

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[Rai Ansar]

I understand that transparency isn’t WordPress’s strongest suite but Dreamhost was always a horrible host. Good to see amazing and well managed Hosting providers like Hostinger.

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[Tasnim Ahmed]

Still no explanation? Is WordPress authority acting unilaterally, or is there an issue with policy violations or non-compliance with standard guidelines? It appears to be a matter of quality standards not being met.

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[Hirak]

WordPress is becoming a monopoly day by day like Google?

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[Mike Tiegner]

Yet another 2024 s*itshow for WordPress and the Mad King.

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[Steven Gliebe]

Seeing Hostinger ads a lot lately is not surprising and seeing how their CEO wants Google to delist Review Signal (presumably for pointing how that his employees write reviews), but seeing Hostinger recommended on WordPress.org over the other 20,000+ hosts? That is surprising. Matt, you just gave these guys the holy grail for free. Why?

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[Rick Horowitz]

Without transparency on this, their recommendation (or lack thereof) is meaningless.

I’m already starting to keep my eyes/ears open for what comes after WordPress. There were “must-have” platforms before WordPress: Frontier/Manila, Blogger, Open Diary, LiveJournal, MovableType. And I’m sure there will be another when Matt is done killing off WordPress.

Right now, you couldn’t PAY me to think the recommendations from WordPress are worth the paper they’re written on. (Read that again, if you think that means their recommendations are worth anything at all.)

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[Miroslav Glavic]

First of all, it can’t include wordpress.com because people would throw a fit of conflict of interest.
Second, no one is entitled to be on that page or any other site’s page. Obviously there is some kind of deal to be there, maybe an affiliate link.
Third, I used to link to WPTavern among my site’s resources page. I changed themes and removed that page, I haven’t added it since last year, oops, I forgot, does not mean I have to justify why I don’t link to WPTavern or the other sites I did.

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[Steven Gliebe]

Well, no WordPress.com but Pressable is there and it is Automattic’s (I’m a customer by the way; I like it). And Bluehost partners with WP Cloud which is Automattic. Just wondering what the Hostinger connection is.

I think the problem is not entitlement as much as it is WordPress.org being portrayed as this community thing when really, as many are now realizing, it is not exactly that. Matt chooses the recommended hosts, Automattic’s Akismet product is bundled with WordPress, competitors of WordPress.com can have their plugin repos taken over if deemed a threat, and whatever.

I’m fine with that but we should just stop pretending. I think what’s his name called it “Fake good guy”. That was nasty and note really accurate but it makes a point. Just call things what they are. WordPress is the core of Automattic’s commercial endeavors and we all get to piggyback on that for just about any reason, including making a living, so thanks for that.

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[Richard Head]

Also wordpress.com is a terrible host

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[John P.]

The way to get on that page is to offer the biggest payment to Automatic.

Why would anyone ever have assumed anything?

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[Blas]

The monopolistic behavior of WordPress is getting out of control. We already started moving clients away from WordPress.
Or clients pay us to build their business, not for paying wak-a-mole with WordPress decisions.

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[Micha Krapp]

Btw. wordpress.com IS linked right at the top in the second paragraph, even before the first entry of the list.

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