Cloud7: Hostinger launches Patchstack WordPress Security Omnisend: The 6 Best List-Building Tools for 2021 WP Tavern: Full Site Editing Is Partly a ‘Go’ for WordPress 5.8 Bottle Rocket Media: 4 Projects Solopreneurs Shouldn’t Have to Take on Solo
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HostPapa Acquires Silicon Valley Web Hosting
Just because it’s been a bit quiet for HostPapa in the first quarter, don’t think the HostPapa Acquisition Spree is ending. Today we have Silicon Valley Web Hosting as the target. From the obligatory press release: “HostPapa Inc., a leading Canadian web hosting and cloud service provider for small and medium businesses (SMBs), announced today […]
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CloudFest 2021 Recap Mashup
CloudFest 2021 was held March 23 – 25 online. Was going to do my own post conference review but I just didn’t have as much time to fully appreciate it that would warrant a recap. Luckily we have three other recaps from which we can pull. What is CloudFest? CloudFest has a long history and […]
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Wix vs. WordPress, The Final Word
If you’re not into watching the WordPress community chatter like a hawk, you might have missed it, but earlier this month something odd starting happening. Queue the music. Background Wix started sending mysterious packages to known names in the community. The secret package contained some fancy Bose headphones and a link to a “top secret” […]
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Free Software Foundation (FSF) Continues Crisis
Talk about adding insult to injury, FSF doubles down on RMS, ostracizing future open source leaders and thinkers. Period. We all need that Don Quixote who tilts at windmills, but not the one who rides back into town and throws a torch into your house. It’s ok for leaders of movements to be reassessed, replaced, […]
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Everything is AAS
There’s a new AAS (as a service) in town. What, another acronym service? Why another acronym service? Actually, it’s Website as a Service (WaaS). Is this some new Elon Musk created future tech? The truth is much much less exciting. It’s an acronym wrapped around stuff that we’ve been using for decades. Let’s take a […]
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Links of the Week
BBC: Remote working: Is Big Tech going off work from home? Kim Doyal: Pricing & Side Hustles WP Tavern: Yes Comments Are Still Relevant But We Need a Better System Cloud7: Web hosting services market to reach $183.05B by 2027
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GoDaddy Adds To TLD Portfolio
Yes it’s an acronym in the title but otherwise it would be way too long, Top Level Domains (TLDs) are the end of any website address. We all know .com, .net, and .org from the beginning of the internet but now you can choose from a plethora of TLDs, which of course someone owns, manages, […]
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Facebook and Instagram Were Down
16:42 CDT – Facebook and Instagram are reporting error pages. Universe briefly flirts with maximum entropy. 16:44 CDT – Chaos is restored.
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HeroPress Adopts Hallway Chats
This isn’t an acquisition per se but it is news for the WordPress community, from HeroPress, Hallway Chats Joins The HeroPress Family: “We were considering a podcast, but had moved it down the build list. Tara Claeys and Liam Dempsey, while loving the work they’ve done with Hallway Chats, found life was moving then in different directions, as […]