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#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…

November 26, 2025

Nathan Wrigley

#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.…

October 29, 2025

Nathan Wrigley

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 […]

March 12, 2024

Jyolsna

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 […]

October 18, 2023

Sarah Gooding

GoDaddy Retires Media Temple Brand

Media Temple (MT) is closing its doors after 24 years in the hosting industry, with […]

September 6, 2023

Sarah Gooding

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 […]

September 1, 2023

Sarah Gooding

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, […]

August 29, 2023

Sarah Gooding

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 […]

July 21, 2023

Sarah Gooding

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 […]

July 14, 2023

Sarah Gooding

#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…

April 5, 2023

Nathan Wrigley

Hosted WooCommerce Solution Coming to WordPress.com in 2023, Following Recent Launches from GoDaddy and Bluehost

WooSesh kicked off this week with a keynote session from WooCommerce CEO Paul Maiorana, who […]

October 12, 2022

Sarah Gooding

SiteGround Launches Managed EDD Hosting

SiteGround launched a new managed Easy Digital Downloads (EDD) hosting product today, the first of […]

September 19, 2022

Sarah Gooding

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. […]

July 25, 2022

Sarah Gooding

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

WordPress hosting company Convesio has raised $5 million from private investors. This funding round includes […]

February 7, 2022

Sarah Gooding

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 […]

November 12, 2021

Sarah Gooding

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