How Should Hosting Companies Balance Short-Term Profits with Long-Term Community Growth?

How Should Hosting Companies Balance Short-Term Profits with Long-Term Community Growth?

What if hosting companies sold solutions instead of server specs? Jesse Friedman and Cory Miller of Hosting.com explore why aligning your product with customer intent, rather than infrastructure metrics, could be the key to reducing churn and growing long term.  * Hosting.com [https://hosting.com] * Post Status [https://poststatus.com] * Rocket.net [https://rocket.net] * iThemes [https://ithemes.com] * 10up [https://10up.com] * WebDevStudios [https://webdevstudios.com] * Crowd Favorite [https://crowdfavorite.com] * CloudFest [https://www.cloudfest.com] * PressConf [https://pressconf.com] Click here to watch a video of this episode. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ny7TI3ND0ak]

How Can Hosting Companies Better Support Agency Owners?

WordPress runs on 60 to 70 percent of most hosting company infrastructure - so why aren't more hosting companies actively investing in the WordPress ecosystem? Host Jesse Friedman and Cory Miller explore the business case for giving back to the WordPress community.  * Hosting.com [https://hosting.com] * iThemes [https://ithemes.com] * Liquid Web [https://liquidweb.com] * Post Status [https://poststatus.com] * My Agency Success [https://myagencysuccess.com] * WP Vibe [https://wpvibe.com] * Five for the Future [https://wordpress.org/five-for-the-future/] * WordPress Boston Meetup [https://www.meetup.com/boston-wordpress-meetup/] * Microsoft NERD Center [https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/nerd] * WordCamp Asia [https://asia.wordcamp.org] Click here to watch a video of this episode. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2efUn-yGHw]

How Can Hosts Help Users Understand WordPress Security?

Can a plugin teach WordPress users better security habits? Dan Knauss introduces WP Sudo, which forces re-authentication before high-risk admin actions. Jesse and Dan also explore what hosting companies owe the open source ecosystem and why community investment creates long-term customer gravity.  * Post Status [https://poststatus.com] * WP Sudo [https://github.com/developer-dan/wp-sudo] * Two-Factor Authentication Plugin [https://wordpress.org/plugins/two-factor/] * Fortress [https://calvinalkan.com/fortress] * Ryan Holiday [https://ryanholiday.net] * Rick Rubin [https://rickrubin.com] * Jesse's Blog (Snail Mail) [https://jesseblog.com] * Open Source Pledge [https://opensourcepledge.com] * Make WordPress Slack [https://make.wordpress.org/chat/] * Hilary Mason [https://hilarymason.com] * Patchstack [https://patchstack.com] * WordCamp Canada [https://canada.wordcamp.org] * WordCamp US [https://us.wordcamp.org] Click here to watch a video of this episode. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdsehylWEUI]

How Can Hosts Build Trust Without Creating Security Fear?

Hosting companies compete on price while quietly cutting security features customers assume they're getting. Jesse Friedman and Dan Knauss break down the gap between what managed WordPress promises and what customers actually receive out of the box.  * MalPress [https://malpress.com] * Post Status [https://poststatus.com] * Multi.dev [https://multi.dev] * Northern Alberta Institute of Technology [https://www.nait.ca] * Review Signal [https://reviewsignal.com] * WordCamp Canada 2025 [https://canada.wordcamp.org/2025/] * WordCamp Asia [https://asia.wordcamp.org] * Dan Knauss GitHub [https://github.com/dknauss] * Dave Winer [http://scripting.com] * CIS Benchmarks [https://www.cisecurity.org/cis-benchmarks] Click here to watch a video of this episode. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lf13Pjitors]

Why Do Influencer Partnerships Matter in WordPress Hosting?

Very few who buy a website or hosting cares about MySQL or bandwidth. While at WordCamp Asia, Stacy L. Osten and host Jesse Friedman break down why hosting companies should package niche solutions instead of server specs, and how influencers can distribute those solutions to the right audiences.  * WooCommerce [https://woocommerce.com] * Jetpack [https://jetpack.com] * Pressable [https://pressable.com] * WordPress.com [https://wordpress.com] * Tumblr [https://www.tumblr.com] * Day One [https://dayoneapp.com] * Woo Payments [https://woocommerce.com/payments] * Data Liberation Project [https://dataliberation.org] * WordCamp Asia [https://asia.wordcamp.org] Click here to watch a video of this episode. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFqzwioMbSw]