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I wonder if this is intended to be competition with managed Wordpress providers such as WP Engine? the article doesn't distinguish between Wordpress.org (domain.wordpress.org) and Wordpress.com (self hosted) platforms. Perhaps both, with such a large partnership. But in the developer's linked blog post he seems to be referring to the self-hosted platform by mentioning themes and plugins. Very interested to see how this progresses.

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Yeah, it reads like self-hosted is their focus. Make sense too.

If Google offered a WP hosting solution (a la WP Engine) on the Google Cloud, I'd be very very interested. I don't think Google will do it anytime soon though.

WP Engine is a GCP partner: https://wpengine.com/try/google-cloud-platform/

And GCP has a page dedicated to Wordpress: https://cloud.google.com/wordpress/

(I work for GCP)

Yes, I've seen GCP documentation on WP get better and better each year. Still very different from a managed-hosting offering like WP Engine.

Can you put me on GCP/WP waitlist if such an offering is in the works? ;)

Thanks for the info!

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