Pagely, a WordPress hosting and support service for enterprise, public sector and media companies, has been acquired by GoDaddy, an all-in-one website building platform and one of Arizona’s most successful tech startups. The companies haven’t disclosed the terms of the deal, but both companies are excited about the acquisition. “Pagely possesses the platform, expertise and … Read more
Small businesses to personal bloggers and everyone inbetween who uses GoDaddy will now have more convenient access to analyzing their site’s security. Website security solutions company SiteLock and GoDaddy have partnered to introduce a new WordPress plugin with their security services for customers. “We’ve [partnered] with SiteLock for a year and a half now and have been … Read more
For professional website developers and designers, managing your customer’s website just got easier. GoDaddy, the world’s largest technology provider dedicated to small business, today announced two new products, GoDaddy WebPro and four new full-featured plans for Managed WordPress hosting. GoDaddy SVP and GM of Hosting and Security, Jeff King said, “We think about half of small … Read more
The third installment of the annual PressNomics conference kicked off today with hundreds of guests and more than 15 speakers at the Tempe Mission Palms Hotel and Conference Center. The event brings together companies from the WordPress community to engage in conversation centered around the success and failures of running a business. The conference is … Read more
Hacking has become the world’s current pain-in-the-neck, with recent attacks on Target, eBay, and WordPress – to name a few. Companies are doing their best to combat hackers and secure their customer’s private information, but in a world of intellectual cyberpunks it is becoming easier for them to attack-and this time the little blue bird … Read more
Pagely, a product focused exclusively on managing WordPress hosting, has been busy coding for months to support its new WordPress hosting plans and features supported by Amazon that expand the product line and cater to a wider audience. Most plans now allow multiple WordPress installs, a Pagely first for non-enterprise accounts, as previously all standard … Read more
This past weekend WordCamp Phoenix held a sold out event for developers, designers, hobbyists, and WordPress users everywhere. WordCamp Phoenix is a non-profit event, led by volunteers who organized conferences, seminars, workshops, presentations, and networking events in order to celebrate the WordPress community. During the event GoDaddy launched its new web hosting platform dedicated to … Read more
Small business owners, bloggers, designers, developers or anyone else who has an interest in WordPress will come together at WordCamp Phoenix 2014! This three-day event combines workshops, classes and parties featuring the best of what the WordPress community has to offer. The sponsored event will provide an opportunity to learn from the best – Friday … Read more
Page.ly, a managed WordPress hosting company, announced the acquisition of competing service BlogDroid in an all cash deal* with the goal to diversify their customer profile. During the transition, Page.ly will manage the BlogDroid domain name and move customers from the existing BlogDroid infrastructure to their hosting platform. BlogDroid customers will immediately benefit from Page.ly’s … Read more
If you missed it: Key takeaways from Pressnomics day 1. Mikkel Svane, @mikkelsvane Zendesk, a new generation enterprise software startup you shouldn’t think of customer service as a cost, but as an opportunity to increase revenue. Zendesk started out as 3 consultants who didn’t want to end up being consultants for the rest of … Read more