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Scott Stapley Built BigScoots One Support Ticket at a Time
He started a hosting company in college, kept the servers close, and made customer support the product. Sixteen years later, Scott Stapley is still listening at the edge of the network.
The Hosting Company That Refuses to Put a Robot Between You and a Human
A bootstrapped host from Chicago spent 13 years betting that real humans and owned hardware beat cheap resellers and chatbots. In 2023 private equity agreed - to the tune of roughly $19 million.
Kinsta Wants the Boring Parts of WordPress to Stay Boring
The bootstrapped host turned WordPress maintenance into a subscription - wrapping cloud infrastructure, security, developer tools and human support into one unusually tidy control room.
WP Engine
WP Engine built a large business by taking the anxiety out of WordPress. Now it is turning that trusted foundation into an operating layer for publishers, stores, agencies and AI-powered websites.