Earlier this year, we completed a mid-sized acquisition of a WordPress hosting portfolio with roughly 70 active domains. In this post, I’ll walk through how the entire process worked, from initial conversations to final transition, and highlight what sellers can realistically expect when exiting a hosting business. This is based on a real acquisition from start to finish. The goal … Read More
Ace High Casino is a family-owned casino event company based in the Twin Cities that has been putting on casino-themed events for over 30 years. The events they put on are a ton of fun and they go above and beyond to make sure everyone has a good time. We had already been working with them for a bit when … Read More
You’re the owner of a website hosting company and you’ve been seeing your industry change dramatically as AI becomes more powerful and prevalent. Maybe you’ve been worried about how these changes (real or imagined) might impact the value of your company. Perhaps you’ve even been thinking about exiting the industry and are considering if now is the right time to … Read More
Most small business owners understand that they need to have website hosting and it makes sense that when they first, they gravitate towards the most basic, cheapest options available. Many are not aware that there are far better options out there for most businesses that cover more of their bases. In this post, I’m going to highlight the differences between … Read More
We are thrilled to announce that we have acquired the website hosting services from Taylors Falls-based company, The Bitworks, Inc. This marks another step in PageCrafter’s ongoing strategy of acquiring WordPress hosting and website management portfolios from IT firms and independent agencies. Contact and Reasons for Sale The Bitworks founder, Matt Sonnentag, originally reached out to us in early 2025 … Read More
I recently received a shocking email from Rackspace. It was cold and calculated. Heartless even. Here it is in its entirety:
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Greetings, To support the ongoing costs of operating and maintaining the service, we are adjusting pricing for your Rackspace Email services: * Your new monthly per-mailbox price will be $10.00. * This new pricing will go into effect for new invoices generated on or after March 1st, 2026. Thank you for your continued trust in Rackspace. We look forward to serving your evolving email needs in the years to come. Best Regards, The Rackspace Email Team |
At first glance, this might not seem that shocking to you. But here’s the thing… My previous per-mailbox price was $2.50. That’s a 300% increase. Shared to me in an extremely brief email. No explanation, no apologies. Just … Read More
Almost nobody seems to know about the fastest and easiest way to take and share a screenshot in Windows, and it’s built-in natively to the OS. When designing new websites or maintaining websites for our clients, we find ourselves having to make and share screenshots of portions of the screen all the time. Fortunately, it’s so easy to do. The … Read More
I can’t believe we’re already well into 2025! Which means that my quarterly newsletter is now just-shy of 7 quarters late, beating out my previous record of 24 quarters. I’m both an optimist and a fan of metrics, so I would just call this a 70% improvement. The last year-and-a-half have been quite exciting for me both personally and professionally. … Read More
If you’re here, more than likely you are trying to fix an SEO issue identified on your WordPress website by an SEO Tool like SEMrush or ahrefs. During an audit of your site, they probably mentioned that you have “Nofollow attributes in outgoing internal links”. Digging deeper, you may have realized that these “nofollow” links are coming from your comment … Read More
We find often that we need to restore WordPress core files manually. Maybe we suspect that a hack has taken hold of them and made changes, or perhaps they have somehow become corrupted. Regardless, it’s something I often discuss doing in other posts, and I figured I’d put together a quick tutorial. This video walks you through it step-by-step but … Read More
