WordPress.com: Now With Three Gigabytes Free
Written on January 21, 2008 – 2:19 pm
Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten,
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Matt Mullenweg has just announced that upload space at Wordpress.com has been increased 60 times from 50 Megabytes to 3 Gigabytes. Mullenweg writes “To get half that much space (1GB) at our nearest competitor, Typepad, you’d pay at least $300 a year. We’re doing the same thing for free”.
Previously the 50 megabyte limit made it necessary for a lot of serious bloggers to host Wordpress on their own services. With this upgrade they might be tempted to start hosting at Wordpress.com again. And it IS tempting to move away from a dedicated server to the Wordpress hosting platform. As Mullenweg notes “Over the past year we’ve developed our file infrastructure, replication, backup, caching, and S3-backed storage to the point where we don’t feel like we need to artificially limit what you folks are able to upload just to keep up with growth”.
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3 Responses to “WordPress.com: Now With Three Gigabytes Free”
By David Petherick on Jan 21, 2008 | Reply
That’s some useful storage!
I’ve been thinking of paying to increase my online backup allocation - I might just rethink this now and set up a few Wordpress blogs.
However, I can see a danger in that there might now be a lot more p*rn images being dumped on Wordpress blog servers, so I’m not sure if I’d be happy sharing space (and a common root domain) with that type of content!
PS: Related to your .ME domain story Boris - who will gt there to register the domain ‘press.me‘?
By Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten on Jan 21, 2008 | Reply
David; regarding your .Me question: not.me, wasnt.me so why-ask.me?
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