WP Engine Tracker is a new website that shows how many sites have left hosting company WP Engine since September, when the company got into a fight with Matt Mullenweg, co-founder of WordPress.
Mullenweg runs a competing web hosting service called Automattic, which admitted that it made this site.
It’s funny that the full URL of the site is WordPressenginetracker.com because Mullenweg and Automattic have said during the fight that WP Engine used the WordPress trademark improperly and led people to believe that WP Engine is connected with WordPress.com.
At the time this was written, the page showed that more than 16,000 domains had changed hosts.
“One great thing about open source software is that all of its data is available to the public, so anyone can access it at any level.” When WP Engine sued, it made it clear that they are not affiliated with WordPress. It also brought more attention to the company’s bad customer service, changes to the core WordPress software, rising and confusing prices, and frequent downtimes. As a result, their customers have left their platform for other hosting providers, according to an Automattic spokesperson.
On X, the official WordPress account has aggressively pushed deals and blogs that talk about alternatives to the WP engine.
There is a court case going on right now between Mullenweg, Automattic, and WP Engine. Mullenweg and Automattic have been in court for the past week asking the judge to throw out some of WP Engine’s most important claims. The company also asked the court to turn down WP Engine’s preliminary motion. If the motion is granted, the server provider will be able to access Mullenweg’s owned WordPress repository site, WordPress.org, again.
Mueller said at Parhlo World Disrupt last week that WP Engine will lose more than 8% of their business in the next few weeks. In September, Mullenweg asked WP Engine to pay 8% of their sales as a license fee for the WordPress trademark.
“A lot of people are leaving, so we’ll see what happens.” We’re at war with them, as I said. He said, “We’re either going to take every single one of their customers one by one, or we’re going to go brick by brick.”
WP Engine used some of these comments to back up their move in a court document they filed earlier this week.
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