In reply to Borek Bernard.

A few years back, CodeGuard made the "mistake" of ditching their WordPress plugin and trying to be everything to everyone via their remote dashboard. Now, they have re-launched their plugin, but are far behind where they could (should) have been re: WP community.

I feel like the writing's on the wall here too. If you are going into the business of being a web host, the time will come where you might change the name of your hosting company and likely either ditch your support of open-source VP or your needs as a hosting company will evolve so much that VP, at least as everyone knows it, will no longer suit your needs.

It sounds more like your parent company is justifying a pre-determined business venture, but trying to benefit from the exposure of VP. That is your call, of course, but the reasoning does seem a bit misleading...

It would seem the concept of "staging" sites is, for good reason, morphing into version control that is more user-friendly. Services like WP Pusher are moving in that direction. I was really hoping VP would too, but this seems like a huge step back in the "wrong" direction (for VP, anyway) if I'm being honest.

Just as there is no point to Automattic using the name WordPress.com (besides purposefully confusing users on Google searches) there is also no point to you using the name VersionPress.com. Just call them what they are -- private businesses with highly customized versions of open-source software that ultimately have few (or zero) shared values or identity with the latter.

Anyway, I don't know which web hosts you tried to partner with, but I've followed you (and emailed) for the past few years and have heard nothing about potential web host integration, at least not in the way of paid services or remote integration (etc).

P.S. "Most hosts do not allow proc_open for security reasons or have older versions of Git installed, generating incompatibilities" is rather inaccurate, our servers for one support VP no problem.