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Company blog · pagely.com/blogwebsystems

Pagely is the company blog at pagely.com, writing about web and systems. Since 2015, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 21 times, most often “Benchmarks for Amazon's new Aurora database for use with WordPress”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-28, and you can follow it by feed.

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21mentions?
11HN people?
2015–2021first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 6 in 2017

Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Pagely is a managed WordPress host whose blog covers WordPress security. Most comments are job listings, a sales-stack description, or a company mention; one links a post on a WordPress host header vulnerability.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Experience world-class managed WordPress hosting with Pagely, trusted by top brands for performance and security.

Most-linked posts?

  1. /careers/
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-08-06
  2. Benchmarks for Amazon's new Aurora database for use with WordPress
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-08-28
  3. Video and slides from our Dir. of Sales “remoteyear”
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-04-13

What Hacker News says?

  1. We're hiring for MULTIPLE positions at Pagely - a leading provider in managed WordPress hosting. All positions are 100% remote. Working at Pagely: https://pagely.com/careers/ INFORMATION SECURITY / DATA PRIVACY ENGINEER https://pagely.breezy.hr/p/83b3f524586e-information-security... PRINCIPAL SOFTWARE ENGINEER https://pagely.breezy.hr/p/e4095f4e070a-principal-software-e... CUSTOMER SUPPORT PLATFORM ENGINEER https://…

    Comment linking /careers/

    on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2020)”
  2. Submitted Whitehouse.gov Chooses WordPress, Again as a story · 380 points

    HN discussion
  3. Pagely | https://pagely.com/careers/ | REMOTE | Full-time Original managed WordPress host that hosts brands like Disney, Warner Bros, Virgin Galactic is hiring for a handful of engineering & DevOps roles. I am a former employee and have no current affiliation with the company other than I had a great 5yrs with them and can recommend them as a good company to work for. Team is entirely distributed with engineering ne…

    Comment linking /careers/

    on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2021)”
  4. Submitted Benchmarks for Amazon's new Aurora database for use with WordPress as a story · 10 points

    HN discussion
  5. I ran sales for Pagely for 5yrs and we used: - GetProspect.io and hunter.io for lead research - Reply.io for cold outreach automation - Segment.io for routing data to various services (eventually replaced with BigPicture.io as it was cheaper and yielded various intel on site visitors) - Zapier for glue amongst systems - Clearbit for lead enrichment - Optimizely for A/B testing landing pages - Olark -> Intercom -> Dr…

    Comment linking /blog/b2b-sales-process/

    on “Ask HN: What is your “sales stack”?”
  6. Submitted Hiten Shah on Building FYI, Crazy Egg, Kissmetrics and Advising 120 Startups as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  7. davidbhayes · 2017-09-15Recommends
    A less inflamed take on the topic I found illuminating: https://pagely.com/blog/2017/05/exploitbox-unauthorized-pass...

    Comment linking /blog/2017/05/exploitbox-unauthorized-password-reset-vulnerability-wordpress/

    on “WordPress 4.8.1 still vulnerable to Host Header Attack”
  8. Submitted A citizen's guide to open source communities as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  9. @good_vibes - Is this presumably directed only at devs or are you speaking to any remote workers? I'm head of Sales for Pagely.com and just finished a program called Remote Year where I worked across 51 cities, 16 countries and 4 continents. I ended up giving a talk at PressNomics in April on everything involved in making this situation work. It was well-received. You can find that here if interested: https://pagely…

    Comment linking /blog/2017/04/making-remote-work-work/

    on “Ask HN: Do you work remotely? How did you get that job?”
  10. Submitted Malwatch – web hosting malware scanning tool – 25% faster scan time as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  11. I don't want to defame the author, but I must ask: are they in any way affiliated with Amazon, do they resell Amazon services? I ask because there are things that would appear to be errors on the comparison matrix, and Amazon Aurora is listed as receiving full marks in every category, as if it was the greatest of all the solutions! Some issues I see: Amazon Aurora has checkboxes for horizontally scalable (none) and…

    Comment linking /blog/2015/08/we-benchmarked-amazons-new-aurora-database-for-use-with-wordpress-results-within/

    on “A comparison of advanced, modern cloud databases”
  12. Submitted WordPress Performance and Digging into PHP as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted P3 WordPress plugin caught doing the shady as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted Video and slides from our Dir. of Sales “remoteyear” as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted How to Nail Photo Galleries in WP as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted Managed WordPress Hosting is 7 years old as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted Tracking WP PHP Object Injection Attackers as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  18. Submitted Explainer on PHP Workers and WordPress. (Your host is likely upselling you) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  19. Submitted WordPress security: Researchers vs. Developers, why the drama? as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  20. Submitted 5 Key Elements of a Successful Enterprise WordPress Site as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  21. Submitted How to make your blog more searchable as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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