We have about 10 days left in September in which we are celebrating our 2nd birthday. I figure we should close out with a bang. We already gave away some free service, and some sweet discounts so what’s left? Let’s start with: T-shirts. We like to think our t-shirts are famous, as famous people wear… Read It
Page.ly is 2years and we are celebrating all month long. Last week we ran a special offer thanking our existing customers. We also gave away a year free hosting and some T-shirts to these 3 lucky customers just for wishing us a happy birthday: Lisa League (@agirlandaMac) Jason K. (@JLKISAOK) Tony Fleming (@technicalbeat) New Customer… Read It
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 hosting service Page.ly, will be 2 years old in September. We have bootstrapped this bad boy… Read It
Corporate types will tell you meetings are a necessary evil. Solo freelancers will tell you meetings are cancerous. Al Pittampalli will tell you that we have too many meetings and far too many bad meetings. While technology has certainly helped reduce the amount of required, face-to-face interactions, there is no way for most people to… Read It
This is not our El Chupacabra Luchador, but possibly an adoring fan making a tribute video. Either way it is the most awesome thing ever to grace the interwebz. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfYSwlnqOQI[/youtube]
Pleased to announce that we have added a new team member. El Vaquero Furioso will be leading customer support for the most part thru our Zendesk instance. When we went looking for a WordPress stud to help us with support part time, we did not have to look far. But this guy is extra special and… Read It
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 manage support tickets. Here at page.ly we use Zendesk exclusively for our customer support. Show… Read It
Good writing evokes emotion. Good writing connects things. Good writing tells a story that the reader can relate to. Too often, writers only judge themselves against other writers. Those with better vocabularies and slicker prose seem, by all technical accounts, to be the best of the group. It’s enough to think that good writing, and… Read It
Around this time in 2009 Sally and I made the decision to wipe the dust off a project we had started a few years prior. In 2006 We had created and launched a “website builder” tool based on WordPress. It setup WP sites for clients in an easy two minute process. Sound familiar? Things were a… Read It
Holy crap we are growing fast. We want your help. We are hiring PHP devs. See here: http://page.ly/about/careers/
MySQL Outage As many of you had noticed we had an issue today with the database servers. We are still investigating to isolate the exact cause. Outage was about 22 minutes. Essentially the mysql cluster that spends it time lazily hovering around 5% usage filled up a table_cache, started writing to disk at the rate… Read It
We have been working diligently over the last few weeks to prepare a new look for our website and service. Our goal was to “tighten” the brand and design. As we developed the service over the last 18months our messaging and design has evolved, sometimes in different directions that left the current site (I feel… Read It
This is one of the first of many posts in which we will be profiling the heavy hitters of the WordPress community. Who are the people behind your favorite plugins and themes? What makes them tick? Why are they awesome? And what sort of things are they working on for the future? Inquiring minds want to… Read It
For our 1st Birthday we decided to give away some presents including 2 iPads, 5 free for life accounts, and 2 $25 iTunes gift cards. We received many quality entries and the decision making process has not been easy. I know that many of you have spent a lot of time putting together your submissions… Read It
It’s been a year since we started this journey to create a Managed WordPress Hosting service that would set a new standard for what customers should expect from their WordPress Host. I’d like to think we set the bar pretty high. We are about to out do ourselves. Next week we will announcing a new… Read It
