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Wordpress offers 3GB of space - not a big deal

January 21, 2008 |

Update: Andrew Watson put together a nice comparison chart that nicely illustrates the different offerings of the big blog hosts. 

Here is another nice example of complete non-news making a splash in the blogosphere. Wordpress has announced that it will now offer 3 GB of space to its bloggers.

Really! 3 GB. Can you imagine any blogger who can actually fill that amount of space? That’s a hell of a lot of bibles you would have to write to get to 3 GB. However, apparently Erick Schonfeld of TechCrunch thinks this is a big deal (he does say so, after all):

This is a big deal. Free storage is the new arms race in online services. Blogger and TypePad will have to respond to remain competitive. It also goes to show how Web-scale infrastructure can benefit consumers directly.

This doesn’t make sense to me. I would also bet that Wordpress doesn’t want to get into the business of serving up big video or audio files - the only way a person could ever use this amount of space. Today, we all use YouTube to embed videos; we get our pictures from flickr etc.

3 GB is a lot more space than Blogger, LiveJournal or any other blogging platform currently offers, but when was the last time you heard somebody complain that they ran out of space on Blogger? Also, wouldn’t any blogger who actually needed that amount of space host it on a real domain?

On second thought, those guys at Wordpress are smart and maybe they are up to something more. Wordpress photo hosting maybe? Or maybe it’s just a lot of hot marketing air. Unused space is free after all…


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  1. Andrew on January 22, 2008 8:06 am

    Thanks for the kind words and the link. Yes, it is hard to see how anyone’s going to get near 3 GB… unless they post MP3s and videos, for which they need a paid storage upgrade anyway.

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