3 ms·
With this product, reputation is neither the problem nor the solution. The amount of people who are willing to shell out 50 bucks/months to get their WP blog ho
by Udo 16y ago
With this product, reputation is neither the problem nor the solution. The amount of people who are willing to shell out 50 bucks/months to get their WP blog hosted is small:
Pretty much the only feature on your hosting site NOT available to someone renting their own server space (for less money) is CDN. I would hazard a guess that the number of blogs that need this is very small and those who do generally have companies behind them to make their own setups, under their own complete control.
I don't think this is a bad service, mind you, not that it matters. It's a great set of scalability and reliability features for that price. But the target audience in acute need of that service is low. In order to scale this, you need to reach far more people than those 17000 who subscribed to your RSS.
- dirtyaura 16y agoOh boy, there will be plenty of people and businesses who are willing to pay $50/mo for someone to take care of all technical details. It's absolutely trivial amount for any business and totally inside the reasonable limits of serious hobby bloggers (prosumers as they call them in the camcorder industry) Based on my observations in Europe, reading blogs is hitting mainstream, the prime example being fashion blogs that already gathering more daily uniques than websites of established news sites. It's a kind of funny, as many early adopters think that blogging is passé. But the truth is that the whole web economy and web-based marketing is just about to start. There's plenty of opportunities to just pack and serve existing technologies into super-usable servings. WPEngine will be a success.
- Udo 16y agoWPEngine will be a success. I wasn't saying otherwise, you're attacking a straw man here. Nobody said blogging is passe. Nobody said there would be no customers for this. I was merely explaining why there were limited results from trying to convert RSS subscribers into customers.
- dirtyaura 16y agoYou are right, but you gave the context in the last sentence, and I - reading too hastily - had made my mind based on the generic-sounding assertions that you gave before that. Sorry 'bout that.