"and are instead trying to capture the market for hardened WP hosting for mostly vanilla installs."
I don't know of any large WP installs that would need the benefit of outsourced WP hosting/experts that use 'vanilla installs'. They may exist, but I can't imagine they're a large portion of the market. Perhaps my scope of experience is too narrow in this respect?
Likely, yes. Most WP installs that I've done use 6-8 of the most supported plugins, a slightly customized theme, and mostly standard server configurations.
Re:My experience with WPEngine
by jacques_chester on Wednesday October 24, 2012 @09:20AM
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Multisite has been part of the base Wordpress install since 3.0.
Just curious, why do some pages sort 189k db rows?
That could very likely be the "Recent Comments" feature, which is incredibly inefficient.
Re:My experience with WPEngine
by jacques_chester on Wednesday October 24, 2012 @08:29PM
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This is basically what I found with some preliminary detective work from Page.ly.
It would make sense for them to offer a dev plan with every production plan though, and let you upload your site, and serve it to a limited no of people as a testing ground. Given their 'Power Tools for Power Users' stuff on their website, they really should consider at least offering staging servers for testing.
I guess at present they're just not a good setup for developers trying to modify WP, and are instead trying to capture the market for hardened WP hosting for mostly vanilla installs.