We really appreciate the fact we have done something great here. We created a market segment where none existed before. That being managed WordPress specific hosting. Where we launched into an empty space, others have come behind us to stake their … Continue reading
Category Archives: WordPress
Don’t Fear the Internet
Found this and thought it would be useful to some of our clients.
At scale, everything breaks.
I don’t fancy myself a developer or a sysadmin. I pay people far more talented than me to wear those titles. However I do consider myself a steadfast hacker, CEO, customer support agent, biz dev, janitor, bookeeper….etc… Entrepreneur. Our managed WordPress … Continue reading
Update on Page.ly3.0 Progress
It’s been a interesting couple of days. We have been working closely with Firehost to bring the new Database cluster online. If you have ever worked with #bigdata you know it can be tricky getting the replication setup across many … Continue reading
Page.ly 3.0 Phase 1 complete
Thank you for your patience this weekend while we made some needed changes to the system. We had originally scheduled this process for Friday night but had to postpone to Sunday night. However the maintenance went off without a hitch and only about 27 … Continue reading
UPDATED Scheduled Maintenance Sunday Night – 1-4 hours.
[Update] We are postponing this event until Sunday night. The Data synchronization is taking longer than expected. As part of our upgrade to the new page.ly 3.0 platform we will have a maintenance window this evening beginning around 12:00am CST. The window will … Continue reading
WP 3.2.1 and HCS plugin re-arrangement.
We have updated all sites to WordPress 3.2.1 and moved two plugins into a new mu-plugins folder. The HCS management plugin and login-lockdown have been moved to a new folder in which they will be “always on”. If you see … Continue reading
WordPress 3.2 is here.
WordPress 3.2 is here. Kudos to the WordPress team for another fine release. 3.2′s biggest change is likely the admin dashboard that has been restyled. All customers are free to update their website as they wish. All NEW page.ly sites … Continue reading
Page.ly 3.0 system moves into testing.
It’s been a 10 week process of sever setup and app re-factoring, but today our new infrastructure system is moving from active development into active testing. This is kind of a big deal for us. Our company has grown from … Continue reading
WordPress 3.1.4 security release, page.ly sites updated.
The WordPress team just released 3.1.4 as a security release. Page.ly customers, please relax and take a stroll in the park or do something else pleasant. We have already updated about 60% of the sites and the remaining will finish over … Continue reading
WordPress.org plugin mischief. Page.ly not affected.
Yesterday the fine folks at wordpress.org announced they discovered and quickly fixed a security issue with a few key plugins, 1 of which we use on all page.ly sites. Kudos to the core team The likelihood of this affecting our sites was … Continue reading
Page.ly by the numbers: Theme usage. [INFOGRAPHIC]
Data is sexy. Last week I started writing some queries to pull usage data from all our sites. Was interesting what we found. Of particular interest to the WP community and the theme designers out there we compiled data of … Continue reading
WordCamp Reno
Sally and I are humbled and appreciative to have been asked to keynote the WordCamp Reno event this past weekend. We tried to share the core values that have made page.ly successful as a member of the growing WordPress Economy in … Continue reading
The WordPress Help Desk we have been waiting for.
Today Zendesk announced their new WordPress integration plugin. We got an early sneak peek at the plugin a few days ago and took it for a spin. What is Zendesk? Zendesk is a help desk service that allows you to … Continue reading
3 WordPress bad ass mofo’s you should be working with.
Well. Here we are. 18 months after launching page.ly and jumping neck deep into WordPress everyday of my life we have had the pleasure of working with many, many WP designers, developers, hackers, experts, and ballers. Not all men (or … Continue reading