GoDaddy Invests $520K in WordPress Community and Launches Enhanced Hosting Platform
GoDaddy has made a significant contribution to the WordPress community, investing $500,000 in The WP Community Collective. This initiative focuses on empowering WordPress contributors by providing funding, operational, and promotional support. In addition to this donation, GoDaddy recently unveiled a revamped Managed WordPress Hosting platform designed with developers in mind.
The $520,000 investment in The WP Community Collective aims to bolster open-source communities by offering resources to developers, designers, and contributors who play a vital role in making the internet work. By supporting WordPress, GoDaddy helps enable users to adapt and improve this open-source platform without limitations.
Paul Bindel, GoDaddy's President of Partners, emphasized the company's ongoing commitment to the WordPress community, noting that this contribution is part of their broader efforts to enhance the WordPress platform. “We hope our $520,000 investment will support community members in continuing their work throughout 2025 and beyond,” Bindel stated.
GoDaddy is also backing several important open-source projects to elevate WordPress and support contributors, including:
The $520,000 investment in The WP Community Collective aims to bolster open-source communities by offering resources to developers, designers, and contributors who play a vital role in making the internet work. By supporting WordPress, GoDaddy helps enable users to adapt and improve this open-source platform without limitations.
Paul Bindel, GoDaddy's President of Partners, emphasized the company's ongoing commitment to the WordPress community, noting that this contribution is part of their broader efforts to enhance the WordPress platform. “We hope our $520,000 investment will support community members in continuing their work throughout 2025 and beyond,” Bindel stated.
GoDaddy is also backing several important open-source projects to elevate WordPress and support contributors, including:
- PHP Coding Standards: A $12,000 donation to improve PHP code quality tools (Open Collective).
- PHP Foundation: A $24,000 contribution to sustain PHP, the language that powers much of the internet.
- World Wide Web Consortium (W3C): A $40,000 donation to support open web standards.
- WP Accessibility Meetup: GoDaddy sponsors live captions for their monthly meetings.
- Five for the Future: GoDaddy currently sponsors 46 contributors across 17 teams, ranking as the second-largest contributor in terms of people and third in pledged hours at 255 hours per week.
Bindel added, "These investments, combined with our team's ongoing contributions, reflect our deep belief in the importance of WordPress to the web. We want to ensure that anyone can participate in advancing the WordPress project."
Alongside these open-source contributions, GoDaddy has launched a redesigned Managed WordPress Hosting platform, built to handle over 80 billion requests monthly and manage more than three petabytes of data. The platform offers up to twice the performance speed of other WordPress hosting services and provides enhanced control, security, and isolation.
Key features of the updated platform include:
Alongside these open-source contributions, GoDaddy has launched a redesigned Managed WordPress Hosting platform, built to handle over 80 billion requests monthly and manage more than three petabytes of data. The platform offers up to twice the performance speed of other WordPress hosting services and provides enhanced control, security, and isolation.
Key features of the updated platform include:
- Seamless scaling: Scale traffic with up to 12 cores.
- Strong isolation: Protect sites with containerized services and nano-segmentation.
- Multi-layer security: Safeguard against threats with hardened containers and immutable code.
- Real-time observability: Monitor site health and performance through upcoming per-site dashboards.
Through continuous improvements to its Managed WordPress Hosting platform and vital support for the WordPress community, GoDaddy is committed to the ongoing success and growth of WordPress.
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