Oh Irony 1
Just while I’m in the middle of the (too lengthy) process of deciding whether to stay with VPS.net or change hosting provider again and even go to a dedicated WordPress hosting outfit, I see a pre-battle tweet by Brian Clark AKA Copyblogger that nobody has done it right so far. When someone asks him whether he had looked into WPEngine he answered:
Yes, we decided to roll out our own Websyntesis. Apart from WordPress itself, this is the third dedicated WordPress only hoster after Page.ly and WPEngine I’m aware of.
Oh Irony 2: Copyblogger is a former Thesis partner – hence the name?
Last year there was much ado about Matt Mullenweg threatening to sue Chris Pearson of Thesis with respect to the theme’s GPL compliance. I started my post with:
Yesterday I opened my dashboard and noticed syn-thesis-1 by Matt Mullenweg in a window
While this was going on Chris Pearon and Brian Clark split up their partnership and Brian gave an interview to Technosailer about this split up. Guess what? Technosailor is one of the guys behind WPEngine.[Oh Irony update: I found out Technosailor stepped down first and left WP Engine entirely later]
Afterward Copyblogger teamed up with Genesis od Studiopress, a WordPress theme framework developping community.
Oh Irony 3: Chris Pearson is on VPS.net
He seems decently served by VPS.net. However I’m not sure anymore he’s still there.
Oh Irony 4: Woothemes is also on VPS.net
Next to Genesis and Thesis Woothemes is the third big WordPress theme developper and also they are seemingly served well by VPS.net..
Preliminary thoughts
- You can only host at Websyntesis if you use the Genesis theme. Not for me for the moment.
- Theme wars just one step further…As Chris has promised his version 2.0 for over a year now without delivering…this might be an inducement to step away from Thesis.
- Brian claims the cemetery of WordPress blogs with hosting issues is only due to wrong theme coding..I really doubt this, because I’ve experienced strange things with later versions of WordPress after 2.8. It could be in the WordPress core coding as well IMHO.
- It’s about time for a European counter intitiative in dedicated WordPress hosting.
Update
And I just discovered another US based WordPress only hosting party: Zippykid
Last edited by GJE on January 5, 2012 at 11:07 pm
Hello, thanks for this post. I am nowadays looking for a good wordpress optimized vps. Wpengine is very good but their price is very high for my budget. What do you suggest me?
Hi Burçe,
I really don’t know at the moment.
Have a look here: Lowend Box gives an idea how to configure a WordPress dedicated low end VPS server solution.
What I do know is: you would want to use Litespeed or Nginx in stead of an apache server because they have a smaller footprint than Apache. Also your panel should have a light footprint….or as lowendbox suggests don’t use a panel at all….