PageCrafter Acquires WordPress Hosting Clients from The Bitworks, Inc.

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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

Greed: Rackspace’s Extreme Price Increases

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I recently received a shocking email from Rackspace. It was cold and calculated. Heartless even. Here it is in its entirety:

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

PageCrafter Update for 2025

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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

How to Retire from your WordPress Hosting Business

You’ve worked hard for years to build up a respectable WordPress hosting company and now you are thinking about settling down into a life of retirement. What do you do? Unlike if you were a salaried employee at a large company, you can’t simply accept your retirement package and move on with your life. You have clients that still need … Read More

Your WordPress Hosting Clients May be More Valuable Than you Think

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So you’ve managed to run your website hosting business successfully and you’ve amassed a number of WordPress hosting clients. You’ve perhaps started considering retirement or moving on to another chapter, and you’re considering trying to sell. The question you’re probably asking yourself is: what are my WordPress hosting clients worth? They may be more valuable than you think; to the … Read More

Fake DDoS Attack Email

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In the same day, I had two clients recieve the same, fake DDoS email with a link to a suspicious Google Drive folder. The sender was different for both, but both claimed to be from a major company (in the two I saw, Intuit and Hubspot). The email seems pretty much legitimate other than a few grammar errors that seem … Read More

HostingAdvice.com Feature

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We are excited to announce that we were featured on the popular hosting information website, HostingAdvice.com. We got to do an interview and they wrote up a whole piece about our history and business. If you haven’t heard of them before, HostingAdvice.com is a highly-trafficked website that does reviews of website hosts, provides tutorials and guides on various aspects of … Read More

Where did Facebook Ambient Mode for Chromecast Go?

If you’re like me, you loved using Facebook Ambient mode for your Chromecast backgrounds. But you probably noticed that it stopped working and, upon further inspection, found that the option is no longer available. I’m a bit of a photographer, and over the years I’ve amassed lots of photos of my various trips, which I share almost exclusively to Facebook. … Read More

Thelen Cabinet Co. – New Website Design

We are thrilled to announce the launch of a new website design we developed for our client, Thelen Cabinet Co. This was a website I was particularly excited about working on because the nature of the work they do is so visual. We knew right away that we wanted wanted to display great big photos of the beautiful cabinetry they build and … Read More

New Website Design for Appro Development in Lakeville, Minnesota

We are thrilled to announce that we have just launched the new website for Appro Development and Cerron Properties in Lakeville, Minnesota. This is a project we’ve been talking about doing with these clients for some time and finally got to start working on earlier this year.This website features a responsive design that works great in any browser. Almost every … Read More