This was never specifically about WP Engine. WP Engine was only the first target.
So it seems if you are an agency that offers Managed Hosting you are now in the limelight as well. This may scare many freelancers and agencies from publicly supporting WordPress services.
“Our beef is only with WP Engine.”
Obviously, WP Engine was the first one to tell Automattic to get bent, and we’ve seen the results. I hope all the other hosts, plugin/theme developers, and anyone else in the WP ecosystem take notice.
It’s not going to stop at WP Engine.
>“A brief perusal of Google Ads and hosting company landing pages will turn up a lot of ‘Managed WordPress’, or companies that offer ‘WordPress Hosting.’” he wrote. “Is this OK? Can we clamp down on these things? The answers are… no, and yes.”
This feels like a pretty huge stab at what makes WordPress a compelling platform compared to many others, with a WordPress site since the underlying technology is open you aren’t locked into any vendors. By doing everything they can to make every other host second-tier Automattic is going to do a lot of damage to the community.
Welp, there it is.
This was never specifically about WP Engine. WP Engine was only the first target.
So it seems if you are an agency that offers Managed Hosting you are now in the limelight as well. This may scare many freelancers and agencies from publicly supporting WordPress services.
“Our beef is only with WP Engine.”
Obviously, WP Engine was the first one to tell Automattic to get bent, and we’ve seen the results. I hope all the other hosts, plugin/theme developers, and anyone else in the WP ecosystem take notice.
It’s not going to stop at WP Engine.
>“A brief perusal of Google Ads and hosting company landing pages will turn up a lot of ‘Managed WordPress’, or companies that offer ‘WordPress Hosting.’” he wrote. “Is this OK? Can we clamp down on these things? The answers are… no, and yes.”
This feels like a pretty huge stab at what makes WordPress a compelling platform compared to many others, with a WordPress site since the underlying technology is open you aren’t locked into any vendors. By doing everything they can to make every other host second-tier Automattic is going to do a lot of damage to the community.