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harsh3466@lemmy.ml 6 days agoMullenweg owns wordpress.com. It’s arguably the only safe place to host WordPress since it’s his company and while he seems willing to burn all goodwill down to the ground for wordpress open source, hes (probably) not going to burn his own company and cash cow to the ground.
I mean, it’s not a great option, and I may be stupid for saying that, but that was my reasoning for saying so.
TBH, I’d just host it myself if I was going to do it.
PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 6 days ago
Yeah but why would the company run by the crazy person be the only safe place?
It’s open source. Just find a different host that isn’t run by a known unstable human. Literally any other. That would be my feeling on it, at least.
harsh3466@lemmy.ml 6 days ago
You’re not wrong. Again, my logic for that the crazy person is on the warpath towards other hosting companies. For a time he had cut WPEngine off from wordpress.org, which meant thousands of regular people and business running wordpress couldn’t update their plugins or wordpress core because they had no access to the .org registries.
Mullenweg isn’t going to do that to his own company. I think Mullenweg is a piece of shit, and I would steer clear of wordpress.com. My previous comment pointing towards .com is dumb.
PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 6 days ago
Ah, I got it. Yeah, it makes sense, WP.com is moderately likely to keep working fine probably, it’s just that it would make me nervous at this stage. I just don’t think he can do anything to really “punish” Bluehost if they’re using his software in some way that displeases him. WPEngine’s mistake was getting tangled up into a business relationship where they were depending on listings and APIs and things. Although, it probably seemed like a good idea until their business counterpart went off the deep end.
harsh3466@lemmy.ml 6 days ago
Agree. I’d be nervous about it too. Mullenweg seems pretty unhinged at this point.