The race to build the next WordPress

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runako•about 2 hours ago

Do people really prefer to see vCPU pricing in per-second increments? Is this useful for any person?

Presumably no information is conveyed by the first 4 significant digits. And can anybody compare this pricing to e.g. AWS or Google Cloud? I have never known my compute cost to second resolution, so I'd need to do calculations to even ballpark this.

Suggestion: Don't obfuscate the price, just remove it. Clearly you don't really want casual browsers to know how much you're charging[1]. Which: fine, this is the current trend in tech. So just remove the pricing and put your calendar link there as a CTA instead. Be classy. Don't play games with your audience.

1 - anybody who plugs this into a calculator will a) understand why you don't show monthly pricing and b) think this is screamingly expensive. Which reinforces my recommendation to just replace the price with a CTA and your calendar link.

camillomiller•about 1 hour ago

> It couldn't care less about all the distributed system cloud goodness that we are all accustomed to. WordPress runs on servers. It reads and writes files. Managed VMs weren't around when WordPress was created, not speaking of containers and serverless and CDNs and the rest of modern cloud infrastructure.

Yeah, thanks, can you now also give us the downsides?

topaz0•about 6 hours ago

The idea that "agent harness" is the thing people actually want is laughable.

rogerthis•about 6 hours ago

It seems it is the buzzword of the month.

pipeline_peak•about 3 hours ago

The fact that author automatically jumps to “distributed system cloud goodness” has me glazed over.

We don’t need a new Wordpress that subscribes to today’s current tech trends.

“It doesn’t scale well” what does that even mean?

camillomiller•about 1 hour ago

It means that the author has no idea what they are talking about. Probably never heard of Kinsta, for example. We ran a successful network of about 70 wp installs that had peaks of 8.000 concurrent visitors for hours per day already in 2011/2012. Our sysadmin at the time deployed the whole thing over 2 server clusters behind a wonderful load balancer he fine tuned on OVH. Total monthly costs: 800€.

That was 14 years ago. So imagine thinking that wordpress is “behind” in 2026 just because it doesn’t subscribe to the deranged cloud subscription culture that has infected the industry.

Wordpress has heaps of techical and non technical issues to solve (including especially governance), but being server-side ain’t one of them.

The race to build the next WordPress

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