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WP ENGINE ACQUIRES STUDIOPRESS WORDPRESS SOLUTIONS INCLUDING GENESIS FRAMEWORK

AUSTIN, Texas — June 27, 2018 – WP Engine, the WordPress digital experience platform, today announced it has acquired StudioPress, creators of the Genesis Framework (“Genesis”), the world’s most popular theme framework for the millions of WordPress sites that comprise 30 percent of the Web. Genesis, and its accompanying suite of themes, helps enterprises, startups, and agencies to accelerate the building of amazing digital experiences.… Read more

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WordPress.com parent company acquires Atavist

Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, WooCommerce, Longreads, Simplenote and a few other things, is acquiring Brooklyn-based startup Atavist. Atavist has been working on a content management system for independent bloggers and writers. With an Atavist website, you can easily write and publish stories with a ton of media. You might think that this isn’t particularly groundbreaking as anyone can create a website on WordPress.com or Squarespace and do the same thing.… Read more

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How many Apache sessions can an AWS EC2 micro instance running WordPress handle?

Short answer (with my specific WordPress setup and test scenarios): 10–15 concurrent users sustainably, 100 concurrent users before WordPress crashed. Long answer: I recently executed a test to measure performance of a t2.micro running WordPress, as part of a training I am preparing. My test had a t2.micro running WordPress, served by Apache and with a MySQL database in the same EC2 instance.… Read more

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WP Engine vs Pagely vs Synthesis vs Flywheel vs GoDaddy WordPress Hosting

If you’re looking for a good WordPress hosting platform, and you’re just about done with cheap low-quality providers, then you’re in a good place. Today, we’re comparing five of the most popular and recognized managed WordPress hosting solutions out there: WP Engine vs Pagely vs Synthesis vs Flywheel vs GoDaddy. There’s a lot of reasons why you should consider abandoning cheap shared hosting plans and invest in something that’s slightly higher tier.… Read more