Website Email Has Changed. We’re Changing With It. For many years, sending email from a WordPress website was fairly simple. A visitor completed a form. WordPress created an email. The website server sent it. A few seconds later, the message appeared in someone’s inbox. At least, that was how it was supposed to work. Sometimes messages went to spam, and … Read More
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
