Comments on: Back in Startup Mode… Announcing WP Engine!

By: Vivek

Vivek — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 03:26:16 +0000

” Other things that make WP Engine different:

■3 Smart guys supporting customers personally
■A “Staging” area for one-click deployments and testing
■We give back to the community. In fact, I made sure that I could work on the WordPress open source project, write the second edition of my book, and that much of our work will be returned to the community. Code is a commodity. The people and service behind the code is not. ”

Looking forward to have it asap.

Cheers
Vivek

By: bryan

bryan — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 18:41:47 +0000

this sounds like a good option for many. looked at the site and got some 404 errors like for the plugins .zip and tar options pages. i know You’re just getting it off the ground but wanted to give you heads up on those 404s. I was also wondering if this hosting platform will have an affiliate program .

By: Phil Bundy

Phil Bundy — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:32:12 +0000

Hey Aaron, Great to hear more about your new venture… Best of luck to you and WP Engine!

By: Brandon Eley

Brandon Eley — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:41:42 +0000

Congrats Aaron, looks like a great startup. There’s definitely a need for something like this!

By: Jared Goralnick

Jared Goralnick — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:20:33 +0000

I figured you had something up your sleeve, Aaron. Really excited to see how how awesome it is. Let me know how I can help, and keep kicking butt. Hope to see you again soon.

Cheers!

By: Aaron

Aaron — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:19:26 +0000

Ha! Thank you. Love the startup life. :)

By: Sean

Sean — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:16:08 +0000

Go DUDE,

You just never cease to keep my in awe.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:08:35 +0000

Thanks, man. Move to Austin. I’m sure we could put you to work :-)

By: Aaron

Aaron — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:07:59 +0000

Happy to hear that! I am definitely keenly aware of many of the needs in the RE community and I’m sure we can figure things out to help you out.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:06:52 +0000

Hey Dave… Why don’t you email me at aaron@wpengine.com. I’m sure we can get you what you need. All of it…

By: Jerald

Jerald — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:45:08 +0000

Congrats on the new venture, my friend.

Many well wishes.

By: Jeffrey Douglass

Jeffrey Douglass — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:02:24 +0000

Aaron, I ran across you on Twitter sometime ago and just bought the WP Bible – good stuff. Working on putting together a company to get real estate agents up and running on wordpress and your new business idea sounds really good. I will be anxious to see how it goes but definitely think you are going to feed a real need in the market. Best of luck!

By: Zatz

Zatz — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:08:47 +0000

I’ve been frustrated lately… my site was hit and cleanup has been a bitch. My xlmrpc.php is still being hammered tens of thousands of times in what I assume is a bruteforce password cracking attempt. Regarding the actual hack though, theme files and maybe core files were modified and an admin user was added to WP. Media Temple told me in a service ticket it was a WordPress vulnerability. Matt M disagreed. Either way, it’s pissed me off and been a total pain. Time I’d rather spend blogging has been wasted managing the technology of my site.

So, I am open to paying for offloading hosting. But the plan details and pricing aren’t clear. What does that $50 get me? (Keeping in mind I pay MT over $100/mo…) Sounds like my non-WP web site portion I’d have to handle elsewhere along with my blog email addresses and such. Hm.

Any way, it sounds very cool and I wish you and the new company lots of luck!