Automattic quietly up to date the WP Engine Tracker web site with an exercise log exhibiting a repeatedly up to date checklist of domains which have switched away from managed WordPress host, WP Engine. This replace is a part of Mullenweg’s self-described “nuclear battle” towards WP Engine, with the Tracker web site actively selling rivals by providing hyperlinks to their internet hosting promotions.
WP Engine Tracker
Automattic created a web site for the aim of monitoring what number of websites have deserted WP Engine six September twenty first, 2024, the date that Matt Mullenweg began went “nuclear” on WP Engine after they rebuffed his request for $32 million {dollars}. The web site promotes offers with different internet hosts for transferring away from WP Engine, and a CSV spreadsheet with the domains of the websites which have left WP Engine.
In some unspecified time in the future after launching the web site was up to date with an inventory of the highest internet hosts that WP Engine clients have migrated to and a consistently up to date checklist of websites which have just lately moved.
WP Engine Tracker “Exercise Log Right now”
Automattic escalated what the WP Engine Tracker web site does by including an extra characteristic that exhibits a frequently up to date working checklist of domains which have migrated away from WP Engine and the vacation spot host.
Screenshot Of Exercise Log Right now Function
WP Engine Lawsuit
The WP Engine Tracker web site, created by Automattic and Matt Mullenweg to publicly monitor and provide hyperlinks to promotions to different internet hosts, was cited in a preliminary injunction filed by WP Engine as proof of Mullenweg’s purposeful “assault on WPE” as a part of his “nuclear battle” towards the managed WordPress host.
The preliminary injunction filed by WP Engine explains:
“Simply final week, in an obvious effort to brag about how profitable they’ve been in harming WPE, Defendants created a web site—www.wordpressenginetracker.com—that “checklist[s] . . . each area hosted by @wpengine, which you’ll see decline every single day. 15,080 websites have left already since September twenty first.
September 21 was not chosen randomly. It’s the day after Defendants’ self-proclaimed nuclear battle started – an admission that these buyer losses had been attributable to Defendants’ wrongful actions. On this extraordinary assault on WPE and its clients, Defendants included on their disparaging web site a downloadable file of ‘all [WPE] websites prepared for a brand new residence’—that’s, WPE’s buyer checklist, actually inviting others to focus on and poach WPE’s purchasers whereas Defendants’ assaults on WPE continued..”
However obtainable transcripts of the preliminary injunction listening to of November twenty sixth don’t present that it was talked about. The decide at that listening to requested the plaintiff and defendants to return to court docket on Monday December 2nd with an settlement on a slim and particular scope for a preliminary injunction, having stated that the unique request was too imprecise and consequently unenforceable.
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