millipedia Posted July 7 Posted July 7 Just in case you ever need some ammo in persuading a client that WordPress is probably not the way to go these days: https://webdesignerdepot.com/the-slow-implosion-of-wordpress-2025-and-the-cms-thats-losing-its-soul/ 3
FireWire Posted July 7 Author Posted July 7 @millipedia The Mullenweg affair has been nothing short of a three ring circus. My partner manages a website where they work and it is truly a headache, and speaking to the ecosystem, that site is on WPEngine and the experience of working with them is as bad as WP itself. Side note on WPEngine, they charge premium prices for a very not premium product. They host on shared servers, you don't even get a VPS. Their sales team is overly aggressive. My partner looped me in on an email exchange for help where they were trying to bully them into paying for the next tier of hosting which was a lot more expensive and more than what they need. WPEngine said: "With the traffic your website gets we need to make sure that your website doesn't affect the other sites on the server." So confirmed with them that they are hosting this site (for the premium money they charge) on a shared server. They said "yes". So I replied with: "Should we be concerned that traffic to other sites on your server is affecting our site? If that's the case then this is a WPEngine service quality problem and that may affect the future of hosting this site with you." They said no and backed down. It took a developer familiar with web and hosting to stop their sales team from bullying a customer. This may not be a $500 plugin that is mentioned in that article, but it absolutely fits within the same story of outlandish pricing and substandard quality in the WordPress ecosystem. The amount of abuse that developers using WordPress and the clients who have to live with it endure will never cease to amaze me.
bernhard Posted July 7 Posted July 7 Sounds terrible! Surprisingly they have quite good ratings here https://www.wpbeginner.com/hosting/wpengine/ and here https://www.trustpilot.com/review/wpengine.com 1
FireWire Posted July 7 Author Posted July 7 @bernhard Having the coldest glass of water in hell doesn't change the fact that you're in hell 🤣 1
markus-th Posted July 7 Posted July 7 1 hour ago, FireWire said: @bernhard Having the coldest glass of water in hell doesn't change the fact that you're in hell 🤣 My quote of the century 1
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