WordPress Goes VIP
By Rob Safuto on Sep 25, 2006 in Blogging, Social Media | Tags: Blogging , VIP-Hosting , WordPress
WordPress.com has announced a VIP Hosting Program. The offering is geared toward publishers getting major traffic to their blog.
The offering promises, “…the benefits of what we’ve built without the limitations of a free WordPress.com account around theme editing and javascript.” What they’ve built is an infrastructure that can support millions of pageviews per day.
Some of the key features of VIP Hosting include: Your own domain name. Akismet spam protection. Template editing.
Those features aren’t exactly blockbuster since you can get all of that with an implementation of the WordPress Open Source program. The value here for the folks that want to go this route is undoubtedly in the server support on delivering lots of page views.
The cost is a $500 setup fee and $250 a month. Wowza! True to the name of the program it is invite only so they “won’t except everyone who applies.”
It seems to me that only a few publishers will need something like this. The average business blogger could certainly go with WordPress.com or install the application on their own host. I host with a company called Dreamhost that offers “one click” installation of WordPress on your domain plus over 50 themes with any hosting plan. My plan runs $9.95 per month.
Check out the VIP Hosting page to get all the details. My bet is that you’ll be able to get by very nicely with one of the other options I mentioned above.
[tags]Social Media, Blogging, WordPress, VIP Hosting[/tags]
