Woot!

All page.ly websites will be auto upgraded next week sometime after the 3.1 release likely. You may of course upgrade your self through the admin panel now.  Be sure to read our policy on 3.0 Multisite.

Before you upgrade on your own you should:

• Update all your plugins
• Disable all your plugins
• Upgrade WordPress
• Enable plugins 1by 1 and check the site to make sure it is not whitescreened
• It’s not WP3.0 fault, some plugins are just slow to update to new features
• Use our Whitescreen Eliminator to reset plugins if you get locked out.

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I started reading The Referral Engine by John Jantsch and within the first 20 pages, I was hooked. John is considered a guru in the small business industry and has a wallstreet journal best seller titled Duct Tape Marketing. On page 15 of The Referral Engine John writes:

I receive offers for cheap Web hosting almost daily. While the cost of the service in question is almost insignificant, the cost of having my site off-line or hacked could be catastrophic. I choose my service very carefully and put a great deal of stock in the recommendations of others I trust, even though it’s a relatively low-cost item.

Well said sir! (John is not a customer of page.ly) We could sing this from the rooftops but it matters so much more when it comes from wildly successful people who know the dangers of choosing cheap hosting. The old adage is true in regards to hosting, “You get what you pay for”. Unfortunately, we’ve heard horrible stories of poor costumer service, hacked sites, 6k sites on one server, slow load, continuous upsells, etc. These sad stories come from wonderful people who thought they were getting a good deal. Little did they know they would pay with frustration, angst, and confusion. Enough of the bad hosting. As we’ve posted earlier, here is our promise to you:

We will never confuse you with products and purchase options you don’t need or that only serve to pad our bottom line and offer little or no value in return. We will never oversell our server infrastructure at the expense of your website performance. And we will strive on a daily basis to improve our service and support to increase your value per dollar invested with us.

To show how awesome the universe is, check this out- Small world! We might work together.

We all love stickers.

Send us a self addressed stamped envelope (An envelope inside an envelope) and We’ll send you a handful of page.ly stickers + a promo code for a discount when signing up on our service. Analog marketing FTW!

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Here is a good post describing what’s to come in WordPress 3.0.

Please review our policy on WordPress 3.0 Multisite feature

Holy WordPress Batman!

We are pretty stoked to head out to SF this weekend for the 2010 WordCamp in San Francisco. Our folks on the inside tell us this is the WordCamp of the year.  Page.ly is proud to be a sponsor of what is shaping up to be a pretty awesome event. Our hosts for the event, Automattic are of course the folks behind the great WordPress.com service and their leader Matt, kinda invented the WordPress software we use here on page.ly.

We picked up a few extra tickets for the event and ran a little contest to give them away, so congratulate the winners if you meet them.  We look forward to seeing old friends and meeting new ones. Please please please make an effort to come meet us. We really want to get to know our customers and fans, and yes even our frenemies.

See you there!

PS: We will have a very (I mean very) limited number of the ultra soft and rare page.ly T’shirts on hand, come say ‘Hi’ and hit us up for one.