Pagely Turns Seven Years Old!

7 years ago this month, Pagely® launched as a service that aimed to smooth and eliminate some of the technical hurdles of launching and hosting a WordPress powered site. It was a brand new category at the time, and now Managed WordPress Hosting is an ubiquitous channel within the broader Hosting industry. Estimates paint just this specific channel at $1 Billion in value inside of the larger $16-18 Billion hosting market. An abbreviated origin story.
Back in 2006, when our company was a small Web Design agency, our co-founder Sally had an idea for a ‘website builder’ service that would provide automated deployment and self-service content management for our agency customers. Our developer at the time, Joshua Eichorn (now Pagely’s CTO,) built the product around an early version of WordPress, even using some symlink trickery in the wp-content directory to create ‘child themes’ before there was such a thing. We promoted it to our customer base and got 30 or so clients paying for the platform. We handled the WordPress updates, and all the DevOps-type things like security, email, DNS etc. After a few months we put the idea on ice for a few reasons, chiefly
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