Wow, Wordpress.com increases everyone’s free upload to 3GB. Matt Mullenweg makes the following announcement.
Free Space to Three Gigabytes
Today, one of those developments comes to fruition — everyone’s free upload space has been increased 60x from 50mb to 3,000mb. To get half that much space (1GB) at our nearest competitor, Typepad, you’d pay at least $300 a year. We’re doing the same thing for free.
How are we able to do this? Over the past year we’ve developed our file infrastructure, replication, backup, caching, and S3-backed storage to the point where we don’t feel like we need to artificially limit what you folks are able to upload just to keep up with growth. We’re ready for you.
What about the space upgrades? They’re still important. You still need a space upgrade to upload certain file types, like movies, and we’re also increasing the limits of the paid upgrades, so if you bought a 1GB upgrade before it now adds 5GB for no additional charge.
Source: WordPress.com
It’s amazing how much WordPress grew. Started an open-source project back then, WordPress grew into a commercial business while still keeping WordPress software open-source. This is what open-source should be about. Today, they offer 3GB of free space. It just shows how open-source projects can be successful.
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Tags: blogging, open source, wordpress
its good thing to upload 3g
nice
thanks
by flflh (Jan 25, 2009 at 6 AM)