Free Space to Three Gigabytes
Much of the work we do at Automattic is behind the scenes, infrastructure you’ll (hopefully) never notice or see, but we’re always thinking about how the improvements we make to the foundation of the site will allow us to build more interesting things on top of it.
Today, one of those developments comes to fruition — everyone’s free upload space has been increased 60x from 50mb to 3,000mb. To get the same amount of space at our nearest competitor, Typepad, you’d pay at least $300 a year. Blogger only gives you 1GB. We’re doing the same thing for free.
Our hope is that much in the same way Gmail transformed the way people think about email, we’ll give people the freedom to blog rich media without having to worry about how many kilobytes are left in their upload space.
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.
- January 21, 2008
- Milestone, New Features
Uhmm, Matt. How About anyone who have a domain+hosting ? Will they get the space, too ? *Stupid Question* 😛
Thanks to WordPress, now I don’t have to think about capacity. 😀
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The space upgrade is just for blogs that we host here at WordPress.com, so if you’re hosted elsewhere it doesn’t apply.
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Glad you took that hat off . Decent avatar upgrade too 😉
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It’s really a good thing. Thank you!
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hey,
this is SUPERCOOL!!
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Thats a really good move. But I wonder where do you get the money from to run this service. Will WordPress blogging be a paid service in future, cos there are rumors that gmail might become a paid service in say about a 2-3 years.
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Don’t worry, we wouldn’t offer anything for free that we weren’t confident offering for free for a long time. We still have paid upgrades for additional space, but the 3GB is free, free, free. (And I haven’t heard anything about Gmail being paid, either.)
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OH YOUR GOD!!!!!!!
This is great.
All I have to do now is to find more content to store here. :-p
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Awesome!
Now what about letting people upload audio & video for free? (It’d be the next logical step, wouldn’t it?)
Cheers and thanks!
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cooooooooool. !!!!
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You know you guys are the best, THE BEST!!!
Awesome!
Ich blogge auf deutsch, I blog in German
and thanks for all you do!
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Wow!
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no way,
if gmail becomes a paid service, why should we bother using instead of the giddy old hotmail?
or if wordpress becomes a paid service, shouldn’t we bloggers rather move to freaky windows live spazes?
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That greaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat! You guys really rock!
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This is great.
It’s really very happy when i saw the status~!
thanks alot
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Thats great Matt. You guys are powering our desires and I think wordpress is the best place to blog. Thanks a ton.
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Dear matt!
matt = my heart. merci specially!
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And just today I was looking at my blog upload space! Looks like you got into my mind and realized what I was thinking. 😀 This is awesome news. Thanks Matt.
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The main flaw about wordpress (one that i could live perfectly with) has been resolved. Best blog host ever, you’re running a great company.Thanks, and i know ypu’ll keep up the good work
(Now i’m having second thoughts about moving my blog to my own hosting…)
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Wow! thanks wordpress…..
Phil
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Great. That is the reason you’re the best.. 🙂
Stay Cool!
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Does it mean we can upload our podcasts here ?
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This will be a great help, thanks to you guys for adding the extra space. 🙂 This has to be the best blogging service on the net, free or not.
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Fabulous.
Increíble.
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You still need a space upgrade to be able to upload MP3s. A nice thing though is that bandwidth is not metered, so you’re not penalized for the amount of traffic you get.
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Sp far I’ve only used a tiny fraction of my upload space, but thanks for your efforts!
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3gb is cool, I doubt I’m ever gonna use that up!
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Seriously cool stuff! Especially since my recently purchased Gigabyte for Podcasting just miraculously quintupled. Peace of Mind for lots of episodes to come. Thanks Guys!
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Bad move! I’m going to be uploading a crazy amount of pictures to my blog now.
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Wooo Hoooo, all the photo space I need!
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wow..thats really amazing..
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Thank you! Awesome. I shall get busy using it now.
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MORE PIX! ❤ WP
Thank you Matt and the awesome team at Automattic!
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This is really good news.
Thanks, people. Keep up the excellent work.
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Should have posted this before you guys asked for the votes!!
Geez, you guys aren’t cut out to be politicians 😀 😀 Thanks a mil.
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Whoa, thank you so much! 😀 This was great!
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awsome thanx!
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=] More uploading for me! Yaaaaay! =]
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Great..
Your “quantum progress” give us the only one choice: wordpress.
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thanks!
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That’s awesome. You guys rock! 😀
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Wonderful! Even if I would of course love the opportunity to post video, I appreciate the extra space for photos very much. Thank you, guys!
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This is GREAT NEWS!!! Thanks! 🙂
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Just great!
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All my respect.
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Wonderful! Thank you very much guys!!! Grazie! 😀
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Wow, so much space to rock in! Thanks, WordPress!
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Hey thanks!
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A M A Z I N G ! ! !
WE REALLY NEED THEM!!!
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simply wow !
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THANKS! 😀
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Wonderfully. Now I have everything what I lacked.
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thanks a lot 🙂
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Cool, thank you.
This totally changes the way I can manage things.
I’d go as far as to say it’s a relief.
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gr8 ! gr8 ! gr8 !
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Gooooood!!! Really Thank you! My comics blog is happy for this additional space!
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And here I thought Christmas was done and over with. Apparently not!
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This s Awesome!!!
Thanks alot WordPress
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That is incredibly generous! Many, many thanks 🙂
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Thank you Mat.
very great!
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lovely 🙂
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Ah yes, I was worried. Thanks!
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GREAT! Thanks! You’re cooooool 😀
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Sweet! This is one really cool thing you guys have done.
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Man! What am I going to do with 3 gig??? That’s going to take some essay writting to fill that!
I though 50mb was generious. 3 gig?? Loving it!
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Hooray for WordPress!
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good news! wow 😯
many many thanks guys!
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Of course, anyone who really needs all that space is going to be very happy, but I
I always used to wonder how long it would have taken me to reach the 50MB limit. After a year of blogging, uploading photos and of course a boatload of text, I reached only 10% of the old limit.
And about videos: now that the space is available to do so, what advantage does a video upload to your blog have over a link to youtube? I would like to try it out.
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Yay! I was up to half my free space already! I love it.
Before I signed up for wordpress, I thought all the bloggers proselytizing for it were being paid somehow. Now I understand — it really is the best!
Think there’s anyway we could organize our images? Perhaps add a search feature or tags? I hate having to dig through 59 pages of images trying to find one I know I’ve previously uploaded.
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Great notice, Matt!
No doubt, Word Press is the best!
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Woohoo! Noice… 😉
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Absolutely phenomenal stuff.
Thank you x100.
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This is great. Im realy excited about this, after only ten days of blogging I was reaching 88% yesterday night but I was justthinking “I cant pay, what should I do?” I even considered ooking at places such as blogsavy but they are so much worse at 25MB. Now you really got me hooked to this place. Thanks!!!
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Thanks!!!=)
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Awesome!!!
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Awesome! Now I will no longer have to link my photos through flickr just to save my storage!
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oh my god
Thank you my matt !
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It’s a great news, Matt. Thank you very much.
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Thank you very much WordPress 🙂
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That´s awesome. I noticed my used space had recently reset to 0% and thought perhaps I got 50MB to upload per year. I much prefer the real explanation, thanks!
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Oh yeah! Now i can host images here, on wordpress 🙂 This means no limit, for me 🙂 Cool!
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OMG!!! NOW MY SITE HAS 8GB! I would like to ask something… if you put movies on your site, will the creators of it sue you, cuz u have to have copyright? PLZ ANSWER!
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snowdobby, the space is still subject to our Terms of Service:
http://wordpress.com/tos/
If you do something illegal your blog could be shut down whether you have an upgrade or not.
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Gr8t
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Thanks Matt. You have increased my breathing space too.
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