We had a chat with Erlend Eide, the CEO of our sponsor Servebolt, about WordPress, the WordPress community and what they do to contribute.
What does your organization do?
Servebolt provides the fastest WordPress and WooCommerce hosting available in the market today. We guarantee that your site will be faster when hosted by us, and you can expect to cut response times in half – or more.
How does Servebolt help support WordPress enthusiasts and professionals?
We contribute to the community financially as sponsors, as volunteers (Thomas is the Lead Organizer of WordCamp Oslo), as speakers, as translators, plugin developers and performance experts – and all over the internet and in real life as WordPress and WooCommerce enthusiasts.
What kind of client would be a good fit for you, and who wouldn’t?
We do hosting without cutting corners, by delivering extreme peak performance – without basing performance on full page caching. Our hosting is fast because of kick-ass hardware, a self-maintained software stack designed for performance and security, and a world-class R&D team that develops and optimizes the stack to the bleeding edge in regards of performance. Not everyone needs that. But if you need high performance, scalability and a reliable environment that is amazingly fast, we’re the right fit.
How does Servebolt contribute to WordPress and the WordPress community?
For us, the WordPress community with Meetups and WordCamps are essential to meeting the right people, and to plant our ideas, spread our vision and make our contributions available to the community.
The community is the cornerstone of WordPress and is essential for making better sites with WordPress, especially since many WordPress professionals work alone or in small teams. This is why we support the community as best we can with sponsorships of Meetups and WordCamps, and share our performance knowledge with the community.
What’s your best WordPress tip or trick?
The simplest one-off trick to speed up WordPress is to use better hosting. The second best tip is to use less plugins. We’ll share more about how you make your own WordPress site blazing fast in our session on contributors day – be sure to participate!
What’s your biggest pain with WordPress, and how would you change it?
We see WordPress from the hosting perspective, and address the biggest pain points in WordPress in our Servebolt Optimizer plugin for WordPress. It is primarily aimed at Servebolt clients, but may also do good for sites with other hosting providers.
How do you see the future of WordPress?
Servebolt believes that WordPress will be powering even larger E-commerce stores, especially as WooCommerce continues to professionalize and evolve. We also believe that WordPress will be increasingly used as a backend and CMS, and less just for the front-end application.
Anything else you would like to tell the Norwegian WordPress community?
Our partner network is open for submissions. Our affiliate program is ready for you to earn easy money. And we’ll love to chat with every WordPress professional, and agencies large and small about a partnership. We want to help you build better websites!