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 … Continue reading
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35% discount for new customers and last weeks Birthday winners
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 … Continue reading
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
Read This Before Our Next Meeting – Al Pittampalli
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 … Continue reading
Fight Night! El Chupacabra Luchador intro video.
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.
Page.ly Hires Employee #2 “El Vaquero Furioso”
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 … 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
What makes a good writer?
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, … Continue reading
A birthday of sorts…
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 … Continue reading
We’re hiring PHP Devs
Holy crap we are growing fast. We want your help. We are hiring PHP devs. See here: http://page.ly/about/careers/
Lions and tigers and MySQL oh My! + Future Upgrades
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 … Continue reading
A new look, coming soon.
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 … Continue reading
John James Jacoby – WP Heavy Hitters
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? … Continue reading
Announcing Page.ly Birthday Present Winners
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 … Continue reading
Page.ly++ | Coming Soon
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 … Continue reading