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  • #195 – Saumya Majumder on How Cloudflare Outages Impact the Web and WordPress Performance Solutions

    #195 – Saumya Majumder on How Cloudflare Outages Impact the Web and WordPress Performance Solutions

    In this episode, Saumya Majumder joins Nathan Wrigley to discuss innovations at BigScoots, focusing on high-performance WordPress hosting and Cloudflare-powered architecture. They unpack the recent global Cloudflare outage, the complexities of internet infrastructure, and Cloudflare’s transparency in response. Saumya explains advanced caching technologies, BigScoots’ direct physical connection with Cloudflare, and their custom cache plugin, highlighting…

    Nathan Wrigley

  • #191 – Arnas Donauskas on AI-Powered Troubleshooting for Websites

    #191 – Arnas Donauskas on AI-Powered Troubleshooting for Websites

    On the podcast today we have Arnas Donauskas from Hostinger. Arnas shares how Hostinger uses AI to help users build, fix, and optimise WordPress sites, automatically detecting errors, applying fixes, and improving performance. He highlights their AI’s 70% success rate in resolving issues, discusses ongoing improvements, and addresses the balance between automation and user control.…

    Nathan Wrigley

  • Bluehost Announced New Cloud Hosting Built on WP Cloud

    Bluehost Announced New Cloud Hosting Built on WP Cloud

    Bluehost, one of the leading web hosting providers, has announced Bluehost Cloud, an innovative cloud-based hosting solution specifically designed for WordPress users. It is built on WP Cloud infrastructure, in collaboration with WordPress.com, to provide robust support for websites with high traffic and demanding performance requirements. Bluehost is one of the three WordPress.org recommended hosting…

    Jyolsna

  • Kinsta Launches Free Static Site Hosting for Up to 100 Websites, Including WordPress

    Kinsta Launches Free Static Site Hosting for Up to 100 Websites, Including WordPress

    Kinsta launched its static site hosting product today, making a strong entrance into the market with a free tier that is competitive with established solutions from Vercel, Netlify, and GitHub Pages. Companies can host up to 100 static sites for free, including static WordPress sites, which Kinsta deploys from its global edge network of more…

    Sarah Gooding

  • GoDaddy Retires Media Temple Brand

    GoDaddy Retires Media Temple Brand

    Media Temple (MT) is closing its doors after 24 years in the hosting industry, with the brand now retired and customers fully migrated to GoDaddy. In 2013, GoDaddy acquired MT “to win the hearts and minds of developers,” as then-CEO Blake Irving told VentureBeat at the time. When it was purchased, the highly regarded brand…

    Sarah Gooding

  • Review Signal Publishes 2023 WordPress and WooCommerce Hosting Performance Benchmarks

    Review Signal Publishes 2023 WordPress and WooCommerce Hosting Performance Benchmarks

    Kevin Ohashi from Review Signal has published his 2023 WordPress and WooCommerce hosting performance benchmarks. This is his 10th round of capturing performance data from hosting companies that opt into the testing. Ohashi’s methodology tests two metrics through a variety of methods: peak performance and consistency. The benchmarks include a LoadStorm test designed to simulate real…

    Sarah Gooding

  • WordPress.com Launches 100-Year Domain and Hosting Plan for $38K

    WordPress.com Launches 100-Year Domain and Hosting Plan for $38K

    WordPress.com is now selling a 100-year plan, one of the longest available in the industry, for a one-time payment of $38,000. It includes managed WordPress hosting (whatever that looks like in 100 years), multiple backups across geographically distributed data centers, submission to the Internet Archive if the site is public, 24/7 dedicated support, and a…

    Sarah Gooding

  • WordPress Contributors Demand Transparency and Objective Guidelines for Listings on Recommended Hosting Page

    WordPress Contributors Demand Transparency and Objective Guidelines for Listings on Recommended Hosting Page

    WordPress’ Recommended Hosting page is a hotly contested piece of online real estate, and has recently come into focus again following the removal of SiteGround from the listings. When the change was highlighted during a recent Meta team meeting, Audrey Capital-sponsored contributor Samuel “Otto” Wood said, “Matt asked me to remove SiteGround because that page…

    Sarah Gooding

  • Bluehost Launches WonderSuite Product with AI-Powered Site-Building Guide

    Bluehost Launches WonderSuite Product with AI-Powered Site-Building Guide

    Bluehost launched its new WonderSuite product this week, which introduces a setup and site creation experience guided by AI. In September 2022, the hosting company debuted its managed WooCommerce packages after acquiring YITH, a WordPress plugin company with more than 100 WooCommerce extensions. The new WonderSuite product is included in all Bluehost WordPress hosting plans…

    Sarah Gooding

  • #70 – Steve Persch and Brian Perry on How Hosting Is Changing

    #70 – Steve Persch and Brian Perry on How Hosting Is Changing

    On the podcast today we have Steve Persch and Brian Perry. They’re both employed at Pantheon, an enterprise website operations platform, and they’re here to talk about the evolution of website hosting. Back when the internet started, hosting was a fairly straightforward enterprise. You created HTML files and uploaded them to a server. That was…

    Nathan Wrigley

  • SiteGround Launches Managed EDD Hosting

    SiteGround Launches Managed EDD Hosting

    SiteGround launched a new managed Easy Digital Downloads (EDD) hosting product today, the first of its kind among WordPress hosts. The company currently powers more than 2,800,000 domains and is targeting small businesses and digital product creators with new plans that make it easy to onboard new EDD store owners. Plans range from $2.99/mo. (1…

    Sarah Gooding

  • Review Signal Publishes 2022 WordPress and WooCommerce Hosting Performance Benchmarks

    Review Signal Publishes 2022 WordPress and WooCommerce Hosting Performance Benchmarks

    Kevin Ohashi from Review Signal has published the 2022 WordPress and WooCommerce hosting performance benchmarks. These benchmarks are some of the most trusted review sources in the hosting industry due to Ohashi’s transparent methodology. No hosting company sponsors the work. Instead, Ohashi charges a standard, publicly documented fee for participation that covers the cost of…

    Sarah Gooding

  • Convesio Raises $5M to Expand Docker-Powered Hosting Platform

    Convesio Raises $5M to Expand Docker-Powered Hosting Platform

    WordPress hosting company Convesio has raised $5 million from private investors. This funding round includes some of the company’s original investors who participated in Convesio’s 2019 Wefunder crowdfunding campaign, which brought in more than $1 million from 800+ investors. “I started Convesio because legacy hosting providers have not evolved their technology, struggled to provide high…

    Sarah Gooding

  • GoDaddy Acquires Pagely to Deploy New WooCommerce SaaS Product

    GoDaddy Acquires Pagely to Deploy New WooCommerce SaaS Product

    GoDaddy has acquired managed WordPress hosting company Pagely to expand the company’s expertise in hosting WooCommerce stores. Pagely, co-founded by Joshua and Sally Strebel, has been in business for 18 years, offering hosting for businesses and enterprises at the higher end of the managed hosting market. “We will be working closely with the amazing team…

    Sarah Gooding