WordPress Playground: A WordPress that runs entirely in the browser

Re:WordPress Playground: A WordPress that runs entirely in t... by WhackyIdeas on Friday July 14, 2023 @05:05PM (#36729928)

Absolutely. The other day, I took my slow Wordpress server hosted at Vultr on bare metal (£200/pm) and put it on a server at £500 per month and even after doing all the performance tuning I could with MySQL and PHP I couldn’t notice a difference in speed when I was on the back-end where Cloudflare wasn’t caching it.

I then tested on a lower performance server which costs £80 per month at Vultr and again couldn’t detect any difference when in the back-end.

No matter what performance tuning I done, I couldn’t make it work faster for us. But at least I am on an £80 server instead of a £500 server I guess.

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Re:WordPress Playground: A WordPress that runs entirely in t... by photomatt on Friday July 14, 2023 @06:27PM (#36730776)

Just come to WP.com and we'll run it super-fast, auto-updated, and secure for $25/mo.

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Re:WordPress Playground: A WordPress that runs entirely in t... by ushakov on Friday July 14, 2023 @06:42PM (#36730930)

Didn’t know you owned that domain. How/when did you get it?

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Re:WordPress Playground: A WordPress that runs entirely in t... by program on Friday July 14, 2023 @06:46PM (#36730963)

It's Matt. Automattic CEO.

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Re:WordPress Playground: A WordPress that runs entirely in t... by ushakov on Friday July 14, 2023 @06:53PM (#36731034)

I know. Still curious about the 2-letter .com though

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Re:WordPress Playground: A WordPress that runs entirely in t... by photomatt on Friday July 14, 2023 @07:39PM (#36731450)

Domains are my vice. Also have w.org. Ma.tt. I would rather have a cool IP address (like Cloudflare's) or domain than a fancy car or boat.

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Re:WordPress Playground: A WordPress that runs entirely in t... by b0ner_t0ner on Friday July 14, 2023 @10:18PM (#36732513)

When are .wp TLDs coming?

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Re:WordPress Playground: A WordPress that runs entirely in t... by swissspidy on Saturday July 15, 2023 @03:53AM (#36734573)

They already own .blog

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Re:WordPress Playground: A WordPress that runs entirely in t... by nullcipher on Saturday July 15, 2023 @01:38AM (#36733903)

The link in your profile doesnt work - http://www.justin.tv/startupschool/b/298808177

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Re:WordPress Playground: A WordPress that runs entirely in t... by 1f60c on Saturday July 15, 2023 @03:06AM (#36734329)

I assume it's this: https://twitch.tv/videos/45877747

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Re:WordPress Playground: A WordPress that runs entirely in t... by photomatt on Saturday July 15, 2023 @05:07AM (#36734965)

Nice! Updated profile.

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Re:WordPress Playground: A WordPress that runs entirely in t... by dboreham on Friday July 14, 2023 @08:14PM (#36731741)

There was a time when you could register one and two letter domains.

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Re:WordPress Playground: A WordPress that runs entirely in t... by rob on Saturday July 15, 2023 @09:33AM (#36736597)

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Re:WordPress Playground: A WordPress that runs entirely in t... by goldenkey on Friday July 14, 2023 @11:29PM (#36733036)

Does wordpress.com used a forked version? Last time I remember that the custom themes were limited for the hosted solution. Maybe this was for performance reasons?

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Re:WordPress Playground: A WordPress that runs entirely in t... by photomatt on Saturday July 15, 2023 @05:05AM (#36734961)

On the business plan (25/mo) you can run any plugin or theme, or custom code. You also have full SSH/SFTP and wp-cli access.

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Re:WordPress Playground: A WordPress that runs entirely in t... by rob on Saturday July 15, 2023 @09:32AM (#36736587)

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Re:WordPress Playground: A WordPress that runs entirely in t... by sogen on Saturday July 15, 2023 @02:47PM (#36739775)

Can it run custom plugins?

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Re:WordPress Playground: A WordPress that runs entirely in t... by Vindl on Sunday July 16, 2023 @09:14AM (#36746641)

Yes. You can deploy your custom plugins and themes.

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Re:WordPress Playground: A WordPress that runs entirely in t... by poliuk on Saturday July 15, 2023 @07:11AM (#36735507)

It's not a fork, is WordPress running on the best infrastructure possible: http://wordpress.com/hosting

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Re:WordPress Playground: A WordPress that runs entirely in t... by jameshush on Saturday July 15, 2023 @03:35AM (#36734477)

I don’t work for Automattic but after spending years trying to “save money” on wordpress hosting I agree just spend the extra cash for a proper managed soloution. Life is too short to spend optimizing page load for your marketing site when its already a solved problem

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Re:WordPress Playground: A WordPress that runs entirely in t... by michelb on Saturday July 15, 2023 @05:45AM (#36735133)

I've got a client using LearnDash, BuddyBoss, WPML, ACF and Woo for their subscription platform. It's dog-slow on the uncached pages, even on a very beefy server with only 5 concurrent users, choking the database apparently. Serving only 2 countries so don't need a CDN per se. (Why) Would this be faster on wp.com?

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Re:WordPress Playground: A WordPress that runs entirely in t... by nagpai on Saturday July 15, 2023 @09:18AM (#36736448)

You should certainly give it a shot.

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Re:WordPress Playground: A WordPress that runs entirely in t... by rpgbr on Saturday July 15, 2023 @06:25AM (#36735289)

I just noticed WP.com Business tier exists recently. It’s a no-brain, indeed. On Thursday I signed with you guys and planning to move my site today. (Wish me luck!) Moving will save me ~90% of what I was paying for a managed VPS.

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Re:WordPress Playground: A WordPress that runs entirely in t... by WhackyIdeas on Saturday July 15, 2023 @12:10PM (#36738149)

There is a worry that I have about switching to a company like yours…

What really happens if you decided you didn’t like the products a website sold?

…Would you give them the time to move and take their backups with then or would you immediately hit the delete button on their data?

These are the reasons we switched to self-hosted Wordpress in the beginning. You don’t need to be on HN for long each day to see the same stories being told continuously about how the big guys treat the wee people.

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Re:WordPress Playground: A WordPress that runs entirely in t... by RadixDLT on Friday July 14, 2023 @08:39PM (#36731916)

you have to make sure you are on the right server, (apache vS enginx)

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