Over 10 Years of Experience with WordPress

• Ingyenblog.hu - That was my first WordPress project

  • Started in 2009 (I was only 16 years old!)
  • Free for everyone
  • Ad-supported
  • 13,5k active blogs in 2017
  • One of the most popular blogger site in Hungary
  • I sold it in 2018 (and the new owner didn't operate it well, so it doesn't work since a few months ago - It's not my business anymore :) )
  • Fun fact: The database size was more than 15GB when I sold it 
  • Fun fact 2: The web hosting provider couldn't make a backup, so I had to operate it without any restore point. That is so risky!

• Blogginger.com - That was my first international WPMU project

  • Started in 2014
  • 14 days trial
  • Low monthly price rate (from $2)
  • Ad-Free
  • Automated SSL order by shell script when someone signed up
  • Domain mapping was enabled for paid users
  • Smart backup and self-diagnostic solutions on server-side by shell scripts
  • But that was no so popular because I didn't promote it enough
  • 3-4k signups, but only a few active (paid) users
  • Shutted down in Marc of 2021

After that my next project is this blog, so I can share my best practices here. Yes, I know this website based on Publii, and the reason behind this choice is the safety and speed.

My opinion about WordPress is mixed...

• Advantages:

  • Open source
  • Quickly fixing bugs and security issues
  • Huge community
  • Lot of plugins to extend features
  • Easy to use
  • Translated to all languages

• Disadvantages:

  • Slow, because the codebase is big
  • You need lots of plugins for additional features
  • Using a lot of plugins is a security issue
  • Using a lot of plugins cause slow website speed
  • Website can down sometimes without any reason
  • Required SQL database (due to security and performance issue)
  • Required a lot of resource

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