[southwesterly]

Wordpress.org is free.

[lolinder]

WordPress.org doesn't offer hosting, and once you install it on a $5/mo VPS you're way past $29/yr.

[x3sphere]

WordPress itself offers managed hosting plans on wordpress.com. They have a free ad-supported plan, and the cheapest paid starts at $48/year.

That's what they are competing against.

[KomoD]

PikaPods.com, managed and only like ~$1.60/mo for Wordpress depending on how you spec it.

I also host my Ghost blog there for basically nothing

[QazCetelic]

There are plenty of managed Wordpress hosts that cost less than $29/yr, often including email too.

[withinboredom]

If you already have a server, it's essentially free.

[lolinder]

Most of the people who are interested in WordPress or Ghost don't already have a server.

This is the classic HN Dropbox reaction.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863

> you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem

[withinboredom]

I wouldn't say it is quite that extreme. Though you do make a fair point.

(I was thinking about businesses, who usually have at least one server, somewhere.)

[lolinder]

No, you're right, it's not that extreme. I wrote the comparison before going back and actually finding the quote, and the quote was much worse (better?) than I remembered!

[lnenad]

lol, what does this even mean as an argument? The software is free yes but he's not selling software he's selling SaaS.