189 WP-Tonic: Zack Rosen of Pantheon on Cloud Hosting
Zack Rosen, CEO of Pantheon joins us to talk the future of hosting, Pantheon’s goals, Multidev, WordPress at scale, the difference between Drupal and WordPress, education, outreach, and mentorship. He also defines the three different levels of websites, and the level where he thinks WordPress is still early in it’s adoption. If you use the web to make a living at all, this is an episode you’ll want to listen to.
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Table of Contents for Episode 188
0:00 Podcast intros.
0:19 How Pantheon got started.
3:50 Where Zack sees hosting going in the next decade.
8:11 Pantheon’s lofty goal for hosting, and how they came up with that goal.
13:08 What most clients don’t know about performant WordPress hosting at scale.
20:59 The effect that education outreach with developers has on the awareness and growth of Pantheon. Discussions about workflow with larger sites with multiple people working on it at the same time.
26:03 What is Multidev? How this feature is unique in WordPress hosting, and the practical use cases for agency team workflow.
29:10 Differences in community and culture between Drupal and WordPress.
32:25 What Pantheon learned about communication from WordPress US.
36:26 Dividing lines between different classes of websites. The expectations for each level. The level where Zack thinks WordPress is still early in it’s adoption curve.
43:34 What Zack has done to prepare Pantheon for growth as it moves from one level to the next. Why he believes that the majority of entrepreneurial growth and learning comes down to mentorship.
47:01 Podcast outros.
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Links mentioned during the show:
Chapter Three
https://www.chapterthree.com/
Mission Bicycle
https://www.missionbicycle.com/about
ScaleWP.io
https://www.scalewp.io/
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