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I was expecting a simple Heroku-style scalable cloud hosting solution for Wordpress with one-click deploy from wordpress.org. A few plugins that wordpress hosts

I was expecting a simple Heroku-style scalable cloud hosting solution for Wordpress with one-click deploy from wordpress.org. A few plugins that wordpress hosts doesn't seem like that exciting of a feature :\

briandoll 16y ago
Same here. The use of the word "cloud" here is a misnomer and feels very strange coming from a group of folks many of us previously assumed were above that sort of hype. I'm confused why someone would want to run the decidedly hamstrung version of Wordpress if they have the option to run the "real thing"? For example, Wordpress.com blogs do not allow JavaScript of any kind. They make decisions like this to better be able to handle the scalability of their hosted offering, and for that it's entirely logical, if not a bit annoying. Would the Jetpack version of Wordpress be similarly locked down? Of course you could make tweaks to it to do whatever you want with it once you host it on your own, but then again, why not just use the full wordpress.org version? Open-sourcing a few plugins that were previously only available to Wordpress.com users would be just as nice, but I guess then the ability to put the word "cloud" in big type doesn't fit as well.
- photomatt 16y ago
  We're trying to remove all the barriers you used to have to hosting WP yourself, from ease of upgrading to the cool social features on WP.com that are in or coming to Jetpack.
photomatt 16y ago
I don't want to host every WordPress blog in the world -- too much trouble. :) Also not how the internet should work. This gives you the best of decentralized and centralized. Many of the third-party hosts are doing crazy-nice stuff already with scaling and failover, they just don't market it in a Heroku-manner because their standard pricing works so well. (The launch partners for Jetpack have close to 2B in revenue collectively.)

briandoll 16y ago

Same here. The use of the word "cloud" here is a misnomer and feels very strange coming from a group of folks many of us previously assumed were above that sort of hype. I'm confused why someone would want to run the decidedly hamstrung version of Wordpress if they have the option to run the "real thing"? For example, Wordpress.com blogs do not allow JavaScript of any kind. They make decisions like this to better be able to handle the scalability of their hosted offering, and for that it's entirely logical, if not a bit annoying. Would the Jetpack version of Wordpress be similarly locked down? Of course you could make tweaks to it to do whatever you want with it once you host it on your own, but then again, why not just use the full wordpress.org version? Open-sourcing a few plugins that were previously only available to Wordpress.com users would be just as nice, but I guess then the ability to put the word "cloud" in big type doesn't fit as well.

photomatt 16y ago
We're trying to remove all the barriers you used to have to hosting WP yourself, from ease of upgrading to the cool social features on WP.com that are in or coming to Jetpack.

photomatt 16y ago

I don't want to host every WordPress blog in the world -- too much trouble. :) Also not how the internet should work. This gives you the best of decentralized and centralized. Many of the third-party hosts are doing crazy-nice stuff already with scaling and failover, they just don't market it in a Heroku-manner because their standard pricing works so well. (The launch partners for Jetpack have close to 2B in revenue collectively.)