u/ZGeekie

Jetpack is one of the most popular WordPress plugins with more than 3 million active installations, and it's also one of the most unpopular plugins. I think it qualifies as the most hated WordPress plugin ever!

It's ironic that this plugin was developed by Automattic, which you'd expect to know and do better than any third-party WordPress developer.

If you have used Jetpack, what exactly was your issue with it? And why did you install it in the first place?

>Meta Platforms is developing plans to build a cloud infrastructure business that would sell access to AI computing power and models. It would take on industry leaders like Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud.

Yeah, I've done that! Sometimes I sign up for a new hosting account at a 70-80% introductory discount and before it renews at the full price, I cancel and move the website to another provider that offers a similar introductory discount.

I usually do this with my new websites because I like to try different providers.

I feel a little guilty about it, but again, I mostly do this with new websites that receive low traffic and barely consume any server resources.

For my established websites, I don't mind renewing the hosting plan at the full price.

Do you keep jumping from one host to another to take advantage of their discounts?

News is circulating that the domain name WebHosting.com has changed hands recently. Obviously, it was bought by Automattic (the company the owns WordPress).

Automattic's logo is displayed on the homepage with a "coming soon" teaser.

Are they planning a new WordPress hosting platform to compete with WordPress.com? Something more "open" maybe?

I've seen a few web hosting companies whose websites are clearly vibe coded -- first impression: looks cool, but nope!

It's very unprofessional, particularly for a web hosting company, to have a vibe-coded website.

Do you think it matters? Would you look past it?

There is one important resource most people overlook when choosing a WordPress hosting service: disk I/O. It's so easy to overlook because most providers don't usually list the disk I/O limit among the technical specs.

If you have a WordPress website with a large database or lots of media files and you can't figure out why it's loading slowly, your hosting account's disk I/O limit could be the bottleneck.

How much disk I/O is good depends on your website. For a small blog and such, 5-10 MB/s may work fine. A more complex/larger/high-traffic website may need 50+ MB/s to run smoothly.

If you've been using WordPress for a long time, what do you find most frustrating about it? And why do you keep using it in spite of it?

Do you remember Jimdo? It's one of the oldest free website builders I used many years ago before WordPress totally won me over.

I almost forgot about it, but I've just heard the name in another post and I went to look at their website...

Well, they have done away with the "create a free website" branding and pivoted to serving small businesses.

They are now competing with small business/e-commerce website builders and hosts like Squarespace and Wix.

Is anyone using Jimdo for their small business websites these days? Pricing seems steep, but are they worth it?

I've just been reading a post in another sub where someone complaints about Spaceship's shared hosting...

They're hosting around 180 WordPress websites on a single shared hosting account and they're constantly experiencing connection errors and downtime.

Spaceship allows you to host unlimited websites for around $50 per year. With 180 websites, you're paying about $0.28 per website per year. What do you expect?

Of course you'll be constantly hitting all sorts of server/network limits with that many sites using such a cheap shared hosting service.

I've used Spaceship's shared hosting and similar cheap shared hosts. Those are only good for one or two low-traffic WordPress websites. 180 websites is insane even for high-end shared hosting.

Every once in a while, I come across a post about a WordPress website migration totally messed up by a certain web hosting provider, particularly those that offer free website migration.

In most cases, migrating a WordPress website goes smoothly, but exceptions happen. Sometimes it's just a PHP version issue or another server configuration that causes conflict with a certain plugin and breaks the entire website (or part of it). Most hosts won't spend an entire day trying to figure out what went wrong -- they'll just deliver a broken website and call it done!

I always migrate my sites on my own. No web host is touching them.

Do you have any WordPress migration horror stories to share?

I see so many newbies obsessed about their website's speed as if a faster website is gonna make it rank higher in search engines overnight.

And on the other hand, many WordPress hosts brag about their servers' speed and the PageSpeed scores they promise to deliver if you host your website with them.

Truth is, website loading speed is only a small SEO factor and it's not as important as many people think. Unless your website is painfully slow, wasting your time on boosting your speed scores won't likely have any effect on its search rankings.

I've seen many websites with a poor PageSpeed score among the top rankings. What matters more is what's actually on the page. If your website loads fast and it doesn't have what I'm looking for or expecting, then I'm leaving fast!

I'm not saying faster WordPress hosting isn't better, but it's overblown and some people waste so much time on something that may not be the reason their website isn't ranking well in search engines.

Adam Warner, GoDaddy's Director of Field Marketing, published an article on X refuting the "NoDaddys".

He's sick and tired of "hearing the same outdated complaints about our Managed Hosting for WordPress platform from people who haven't touched it in half a decade."

He argues that GoDaddy's managed WordPress hosting has fundamentally changed and improved, and he's got third-party benchmarks to prove it.

Alright, I'll give him that, the performance benchmarks look good, but the thing is, it was never really just about performance.

GoDaddy's biggest issues are their poor outsourced support (especially L1 support agents), upselling, and price hikes. Those haven't changed, at least not for the better!

For those who self-host WordPress websites on a self-managed VPS, what server control panel do you use?

>Oracle plans to raise $45 billion to $50 billion in 2026 to expand its Oracle Cloud Infrastructure for customers like OpenAI, xAI, AMD, Nvidia, and Meta, it said in February. About half of that funding will come through debt, with the remainder coming from equity. When Oracle announced this, investors had already been concerned about Oracle’s growing debt to fuel its AI efforts. Overall, Oracle has over $120 billion in debt, per its fiscal year 2026 earnings report.

Many major web hosting providers have switched to AI chatbot support. Some of them give their bot a human name and a human face, so newcomers may not even realize they are chatting with a bot.

Some of the hosts I use have added an AI chatbot as first-line support while others still have all-human support.

I've had mixed experiences with both. Sometimes I actually find a chatbot more helpful than a clueless, outsourced human support agent!

Does your web host still have human support?