<div class="gmail_extra">One of the detrimental effects of the wild popularity and ease-of-use of WordPress is the development of the misconception that hosting, maintaining, and using a web application is "so easy a caveman can do it."</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">It's not.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">WordPress comes as close to commoditizing a self-hosted web app as currently possible, but using it - as with any web app - still requires certain knowledge and skill sets. (You'd be surprised by the number of WordPress users who have to ask what an FTP client is.) No web app can account for all possible server configurations, all possible use cases, all possible security exploits, etc. To host, manage, and use such a web app properly, one must have an understanding of all these aspects.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">On a side note: I'm actually quite happy that the general code quality of repository-hosted Themes has improved to the point at which we are now discussing the impact of relative server performance. IMHO, given the state of code quality of repository-hosted Themes two years ago, that we're even having this discussion is a huge win for end users.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Chip<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 9:28 AM, Robb Shecter <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:robb@weblaws.org" target="_blank">robb@weblaws.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><br></div><div>I guess that for me, I'd sum it up like this: Wordpress is making a promise to users. That, out of the box, it'll work well. Not well enough to handle true slashdotting or front page of <a href="http://cnn.com" target="_blank">cnn.com</a>, but well enough for small traffic and the occasional link from Hacker News.</div>
<div><br></div><div>And so, I feel like this might not be the case, after my experiences this weekend.</div></blockquote></div></div>