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> The hosting bills for WordPress.org's plugin repository for instance can't be cheap, god knows how they fund it. The CEO of Cloudflare already offered to hos
by JimDabell 2y ago
> The hosting bills for WordPress.org's plugin repository for instance can't be cheap, god knows how they fund it.
The CEO of Cloudflare already offered to host it for free:
https://x.com/eastdakota/status/1841154152006627663 https://x.com/eastdakota/status/1841154152006627663
- Arcuru 2y agoSure now that it's in the news and can give them good PR, but a week ago they weren't the ones paying for it.
- FireBeyond 2y agoYou can buy a lot of web hosting for $400M. And with everything here, it also seems like quite a deliberate and calculated move to make sure he personally maintains ownership of WP.org (or else why was it not transferred to the Foundation (also him) when all the trademark stuff was being done?)
- mthoms 2y agoDon't celebrate yet. It looks more like he's just trying to help Matt out rather than support the community - https://imgur.com/a/6isRMCv https://imgur.com/a/6isRMCv Fun fact: WPEngine is a Cloudflare customer. Automattic is not.