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WordPress.com VIP Hosting Program Goes Public for $250/mo
wordpress.com — Based on their experience with folks like Anousheh Ansari, Scoble, Om Malik ’s Web Worker Daily, and other high-profille and high-traffic bloggers using WordPress, WordPress has put together something called "VIP Hosting" You may be a good candidate for VIP hosting if, for example, you get more than 100,000 pageviews a month and have $250/mo.
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- attila, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Should have written "Goes Public (some what...)" because according to their website, it's not open to everyone. There are a few stipulations, one being, your blog needs to receive over 100k pageviews per day. Also, in addition to the $250/mo fee, there's a $500 setup fee. Those are just some things to consider, hmm, follow the link to see for yourself if this service is right for you.
- canadianguy33, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18Wow! Just Wow!
$250 a month and a $500 setup fee is ridiculous unless there's someone over at wordpress that's going to write my blogs for me. - joshjoneswas, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5blog shmog. I'm content with just saying my 2 cents about anything on digg comments. 8)
- HMTKSteve, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7Shouldn't that be they want to pay YOU $250 per month and give YOU a $500 signing bonus?
- Alphabet, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12I have a site that gets 23million page views a month, transfer 700gb of data, and I only pay $80 bucks a month. $250bucks a month plus $500 setup fee is ridiculous.
- jcaino, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3you can go to somwhere like pair.com - get 400gb/month traffic + 6GB server space, 30 databases plus support for 179/month and no setup fee...
and wordpress is terribly easy to install there too..
want a domain? ok its 1 buck a month + 15 setup...
still lots cheaper
but the big thing i want to know is how are their support options? - robdavy, on 10/12/2007, -6/+3Sure, it's a lot of money, but hosting a dynamic site that might get hundreds of thousands of hits in the course of a few hours really isn't easy (eg, if you get on the front page of Digg or Slashdot).
Sure, you can get a Dual Xeon for $250/month, but even that might not (probably) couldn't handle a huge ammount of traffic. Most hosts would get a little upset too. Also, do you just have a dual xeon sitting there waiting to be Dugg or Slashdotted? Most people don't exactly plan for/schedule these things, they just sorta happen.
Because they're only accepting a small number of these too, I'd imagine the support is very good.
There's certainly a market for this product. $250/month to make sure my site survives a Slashdotting or being Dugg is a bargain really.
(btw, my last job was working for a site which did 40m pages a day, all dynamic, hosted on around 40 machines (VERY dynamic) - we had $100k worth of hardware, which makes this seem like a bargain)
- canadianguy33, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18Wow! Just Wow!
- llbbl, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7That price is extordinate. They better give you an entire machine all to yourself. No shared hosting. I have a shared hosting plan with dreamhost and when I got farked they were able to handle the load. Also I know damninteresting is hosted with dreamhost also and they probably get a sizeable amount of traffic. Any good shared host can provide the same level of service that wordpress is offering at a much lower price.
- robdavy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4That's the thing - it's distributed, you get a lot more than a machine to yourself. Most machines couldn't handle a dynamic site getting a good Slashdotting or being Dugg (remember, that traffic all comes in a few hours)
Most Shared hosting providers would fall over and die (being farked really doesn't compare, and damninteresting uses multiple dedicated servers from them, and even then, their load is spread out over the day)
- robdavy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4That's the thing - it's distributed, you get a lot more than a machine to yourself. Most machines couldn't handle a dynamic site getting a good Slashdotting or being Dugg (remember, that traffic all comes in a few hours)
- mkoby, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Priced a bit high much? I use Wordpress on my blog on my own hosting I pay for even if I was to get my own server from the hosting provider I use it still wouldn't be $250/yr. That price is just unbelievable.
- headzoo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15"What do we ask in return?
* A “Powered by WordPress.com” logo on your site."
Wait? You want me to spend $250 -- twice the norm -- AND you want me to advertise for you? Prf.. right. What a joke. I think someone is buying into their own hype.- drig, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7I agree. When paying a $500 set-up fee plus $250 (which is actually well justified), they shouldnt be asking for a link back to their homepage. It does seem like a neat service with load balanced servers at multiple data centers, but the link back to their website just boggles my mind. I wonder how many are going to sign up.
- waytoorandomx, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Ripoff! Alert the masses! :>
- drig, on 10/12/2007, -6/+4I think the cost is well justified. Thats a great service they are offering. However, I do consider the backlink to be a "ripoff."
- EV1L, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I can have a dedicated machine with Dual Xeon/Opeteron for $250
- bashfulczar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Someones got a big ego...
- ers35, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14I'll have some of what WordPress.com is smoking.
- macewan, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1One of our county commissioners has set up a site called wordpressbuilder.com - would this not be considered trademark infri* on his part?
- pdonline, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3ers I agree. WordPress.com is askin for a LOT.
- 1021, on 10/12/2007, -5/+0The question is: can it handle the digg/dot effect?
- robdavy, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6For god sake, RTFA, it even mentions Digg and Slashdot specifically...
- gerardleblond, on 10/12/2007, -15/+1High traffic can cause big problems for people who aren't use to dealing with it. But even if a person is use to dealing with loads of site traffic, lucky them, Wordpress' VIP program could make a lot of sense for people who know how to monetize their traffic.
Respectfully, Gerard LeBlond
President/Founder
AboutYourWealth.com and SellinfoProductsOnline.com- robdavy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Your comment is perfectly valied, it's just a shame you have to be Dugg down because of the silly ads in your post
- kasted, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4$500 setup fee? what do they gotta setup?
- tehsexy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5perhaps a direct deposit straight from your checking account
- mike6496, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5wtf?
"if, for example, you get more than 100,000 pageviews a month on your blog"
100k page views/month is nothing. I get 175k page views/month on my blog and I'm no VIP blogger, but then again I only pay about $24/month for hosting. I guess if you pay for the bottle of bubbly then you're a VIP and you get to "sit" with the dancer, eh? - ayam, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2$250/month for a wordpress ? i better buy a colo and start my own wordpress multiuser
- Linh, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1what the hell... i love wordpress (altho, I don't use it anymore)... this just doesn't make any sense whatsoever
- afx1, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2"What do we ask in return?
* A “Powered by WordPress.com” logo on your site.
* Your tags go into and point to our Tags community."
For $250/month, I shouldn't have to do a single one of those damn things. - GoodBrain, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3The price is great if you are a high profile, high traffic blog. I doubt they'd even talk to you if you don't fit in that category. This is probably a pilot program so they can work more of the bugs out of allowing people the ability to customize their wordpress.com sites.
I'd expect, in a couple of months, that they will introduce much lower pricing tiers for people who want more customization, etc than they can get with the free offering. - bradbaxter, on 10/12/2007, -5/+0First off, we DID have jets ready to intercept Flight 93.
Second, LBJ and JFK (Democrats) were both President during Tonkin and Northwoods. Though he says it is both parties, he is citing those two examples in order to bring legitimacy to his conspiracy that the Republicans are guilty this time around.
Third, Alex Jones is a nut. I've watched one of his hit-piece documentaries on 9/11. He outright lies. For instance, he shows a picture in one scene of a document that Bush supposedly signed which he said prohibited the FBI from doing anything about the events of 9/11 beforehand. At the time I watched this, I went looking for this document. I searched everywhere (he had named the document, but right now I can't remember the name of it). Turns out, this "document" was just hypothetical -- even though Jones cited it as fact and showed a fake picture of it. That's just one example of his tactics.
Kinky Friedman must be afraid he's gonna win this election -- so, he brings in Jesse to sabatoge it for him. That's the only realy conspiracy I can find here! - doank, on 10/12/2007, -4/+0WordPress to JFK, you can find these two topic related together on Digg!
- photomatt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Howdy diggers. You can absolutely get an alright dual xeon for $250 a month from someplace like theplanet or EV1. Those are nice boxes---we're going to have over a hundred in a month or so. At the end of the day, though, it's still a single point of failure at the server, the database, the network, the datacenter.
There are some commenters here that really nailed it. If $250/mo sounds high, you are definitely not the target audience.
That said, we have gotten a lot of feedback on the pricing, and we're looking at making a change.
We're going to raise it next month.- weiran, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3If the hosted site is going to be spread around hundreds of servers around the world, then $250 isn't such a bad deal. It also means you don't have to worry about maintaining your server(s) and keeping them running ship shape.
Remember these are sites making tens of thousands in revenue per month from advertising or elsewhere, and $250 is a drop in the ocean. It's worth it alone to save them the time in server admin so they can post more (and make more).
- weiran, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3If the hosted site is going to be spread around hundreds of servers around the world, then $250 isn't such a bad deal. It also means you don't have to worry about maintaining your server(s) and keeping them running ship shape.
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