Champions Open Source Innovation by Funding
Contributors and Upgrading Managed WordPress Hosting
Platform
TEMPE,
Ariz., Jan. 21, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- GoDaddy
(NYSE: GDDY) just invested a half-million dollars in the WordPress
community through a donation to The WP Community Collective, an
initiative focused on funding and empowering WordPress
contributors. This monetary support will be directed towards
providing financial, operational and promotional support within the
greater WordPress community. GoDaddy also recently launched a
redesigned Managed WordPress Hosting platform, built with
developers in mind.
The WP Community Collective contribution by GoDaddy, the company
that helps small businesses thrive, aims to strengthen open source
communities by providing resources for designers, developers and
other contributors who make the internet work.
These efforts help to build the WordPress platform and provide
individuals with the freedom to adapt and improve this open source
software to suit their needs without limitations.
"GoDaddy and its employees care deeply about the WordPress
community and show it year in, year out in many ways, including
contributions of time and funding," said GoDaddy President of
Partners Paul Bindel. "We're focused
on continuing to enhance our industry-leading WordPress platform
and hope our investment of $520,000
helps other valued members of the community sustain their
contributions throughout 2025 and beyond."
GoDaddy Supports Many Critical WordPress Community Projects
In addition to the December 2024
investment in The WP Community Collective announced today, GoDaddy
is sponsoring a handful of open source projects that will elevate
WordPress while empowering contributors.
The open source projects receiving funding, mentorship, and
other opportunities from GoDaddy include:
- PHP Coding Standards - GoDaddy gave $12,000 in total in 2024 to support PHP code
quality tools (Open Collective).
- PHP Foundation - GoDaddy donated $24,000 in December
2024 to help sustain PHP, the language powering much of the
internet.
- World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) - GoDaddy donated
$40,000 in December 2024 to champion open web standards
through the W3C.
- WP Accessibility Meetup - GoDaddy sponsors live captions
for the group's monthly meetings.
- Five for the Future - Currently, GoDaddy sponsors 46
contributors, across 17 teams, through this program. The company
ranks as the second-largest contributor of people and is ranked
third in number of pledged hours per week at 255 hours.
"These monetary contributions to the WordPress community,
alongside our team's involvement through contributions, showcase
how vital we believe WordPress is to the web," continued Bindel.
"We believe that anyone should be able to participate, contribute
and be involved in propelling the WordPress project
forward."
GoDaddy Redesigns Managed WordPress Product with Developers
in Mind
In tandem with its open source investments and goals to provide
resources, GoDaddy has enhanced the WordPress experience by
launching a newly optimized Managed WordPress Hosting platform. It
serves over 80 billion requests per month with more than three
petabytes of data and gives customers up to two times faster
performance than other WordPress hosting providers* and more
control of their WordPress site, with advanced security and
isolation at every level.
Built with WordPress developers in mind, the platform now
delivers the power of a virtual private server (VPS) with the
simplicity and reliability of Managed WordPress.
Benefits of the updated platform include:
- Seamless scaling - Handle traffic surges with vertical
scaling up to 12 cores.
- Strong isolation - Help protect a site with
containerized services and nano-segmentation.
- Multi-layer security - Stay ahead of threats with
hardened containers and immutable code.
- Real-time observability - Monitor site health and
performance through upcoming per-site dashboards.
From continually enhancing its own Managed WordPress Hosting
platform to providing crucial support to the community, GoDaddy is
fully invested in the success and future of WordPress.
To learn more about GoDaddy and its products, visit
www.GoDaddy.com.
About GoDaddy
GoDaddy helps millions of entrepreneurs globally start and scale
their businesses. People come to GoDaddy to name their idea, build
a website and logo, sell their products and services, and accept
payments. GoDaddy Airo™, the company's AI-powered experience, makes
growing a small business faster and easier by helping them to get
their idea online in minutes, drive traffic and boost sales.
GoDaddy's expert guides are available 24/7 to provide assistance.
To learn more about the company, visit
www.GoDaddy.com.
Source: GoDaddy Inc.
*Disclaimer: Page load times compared to leading WordPress
hosting providers Flywheel, Siteground, Hostgator, Dreamhost,
Namecheap, Hostinger, and Bluehost for page load times between
September and October, 2024. Actual performance may vary by
region.
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