[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #14087: Set up team to evaluate web-hosting providers for WP.org recommendations

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#14087: Set up team to evaluate web-hosting providers for WP.org recommendations
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 Reporter:  demetris       |       Owner:                    
     Type:  enhancement    |      Status:  new               
 Priority:  normal         |   Milestone:  WordPress.org site
Component:  WordPress.org  |     Version:                    
 Severity:  normal         |    Keywords:                    
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Changes (by mikeschinkel):

 * cc: mikeschinkel@… (added)


Comment:

 Replying to [comment:5 demetris]:

 A '''huge''' +1 on this.  And your suggestion is so serendipitously timely
 too!

 After the [http://www.thebusinessof.net/wordpress/ conference] I hosted
 last week to advocate for businesses to use WordPress (in addition to just
 the blogging loyalists) I was approached by one of our two main sponsors
 [http://www.asmallorange.com/ A Small Orange] web hosting (a.k.a. ASO)
 asking how they could provide an offering that specifically targeted the
 needs of WordPress websites developers and owners. Evidently they believed
 in the message of our which was that WordPress is not only already huge
 for end user bloggers but will soon be absolutely huge for business users
 too. (note, ASO is local to Atlanta and I've been a customer of A Small
 Orange for 5+ years.)

 So I have plans to meet with them in a few weeks to brainstorm how they
 can add lots of value by making offerings that are WordPress-specific. I'm
 sure I can come up with some ideas for them but it would be so much better
 if the community developed a set of best practices and suggested
 enhancements and I could simply communicate all the great best practices
 to them rather than just brainstorm and suggest a handful of ideas of my
 own.

 So YES, I am all in for helping with this.  Would creating a '''wp-hosting
 mailing list''' for web hosts and people interested in development best
 practices for web hosts make sense?

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