Welcome to DEV, your monthly WordPress deep dive. As we roll on into June, here’s the low-down on new releases, fancy features and community calls to action. Let’s get into it! Oh, and stick around to the end to see “rolling on the floor with laughter,” personified. In today’s edition: WordPress 7.0 lands, finally giving...
When Cloudflare launched EmDash on April 1st, I must admit I thought it was a joke. Quite a good one, in fact! But it turned out to be something even better… an April 1st product release to match my favourite of all time (Gmail!). And something that I thought you good people might enjoy having...
50+ WordPress sites on one managed server for $15/mo Before I begin, I want to take you back to the dawn of shared web hosting – specifically, the birth of the revolutionary and wonderful cPanel and WHM. And I have a confession to make: without cPanel (and, specifically, Fantastico) I genuinely don’t think I’d be...
Welcome to a very special edition of DEV, where we bubble over with uncontained glee about the newest evolution of our hosting… UNLIMITED! (We had to order an extra shipment of sparkle emojis to prepare for this. You’re welcome.) Forgive our nerdish fervor, but this is kinda a BIG DEAL. If you’ve been busy touching...
As you can probably guess, we’ve been ‘staff testing’ the new Unlimited Hosting package behind the scenes for a while. Which has been useful (we deal with any bugs so you don’t have to) and also super interesting! But also, it means we’ve been using it for a while. So, given that, I’d like to...
Once we had decided on the software architecture and design of Unlimited, I decided to challenge our engineers to do something even more wild. I wanted to take one of our High Frequency servers (you can also use them for Dedicated) and allow users to put over 50 sites on it. And not just because...
When we finally gave in to member pressure and committed to building a much more cost efficient hosting option for WPMU DEV members, we wanted it to be special. Genuinely special, not just ‘we say this is special but really it’s just shared hosting with fancy clothes’, but something that took that whole paradigm and...
