You created something truly great and valuable with WordPress thet has the potential to blossom for many more years to come, now it’s your responsibility to be an inspiring leader to take WordPress into the future, otherwise others will pick up that task.

In the end, WordPress is not *about* you, it’s to serve its users. And a leader is not a self-proclaimed thing, the concept of a leader can only exist when other people keep perceiving you like that.

Keep up the great work

There are millions of small businesses running on WordPress and dealing with core, plugin and theme updates as necessary. It’s actually not that hard.

Yes, a SaaS alternative takes care of all that. But it comes with limitations.

With WordPress, you’re future-proofing yourself. Your website can grow as needed – introduce eCommerce, eLearning, Memberships, etc…

You can structure your content as you wish, and create the navigation that makes sense to your users.

You can integrate with anything.

On a propriety platform, the future of your website is dictated by the commercial imperatives steering the development roadmap.

We believe this summer special and the “WordPress without limits” message resonates strongly here, and we’re excited to help expand its reach in LA.

Best , Sergio.

As it relates to both clients and agencies, very few users express concern, or even need to understand the nuanced difference of MS vs non-MS WP, and explaining it only overwhelms them more (again, in my experience), because WP MS is a real thing, but they’re not able to use the features that make MS distinctive on the .com platform. In other words, most users don’t care how the sausage is made, or the fact that you’re using MS to serve shared hosting customers.

The difference you seem to be explaining is, again, the difference between .com and “self-hosted” and the only benefit to explaining it the way you have is to avoid the point that .cloud is a similar experience to any other WP self-hosted experience. This confusion has been a long brewing and discussed issue that has felt ignored, to be honest, so bringing it up now is great, I’m curious if perhaps you’d be willing to consider that we need greater tools to distinguish these types of WP.

WP.com is one site at a time per plan, but you can manage infinite sites on it. If you want a MS install of your own, I suggest Pressable or VIP.