Nexcess is a part of the Liquid Internet Household of Manufacturers. Our President, Carrie Wheeler, shares an replace on our household of manufacturers.
There’s A LOT occurring right here at Liquid Internet and our Household of Manufacturers. I’m excited to share only a few updates with our group of staff, companions, prospects, and buyers. Final month, I stepped into a brand new place, and I now have the pleasure and honor of heading up our Liquid Internet Household of Manufacturers, which incorporates our Liquid Internet, Nexcess, StellarWP manufacturers, and our Fashionable Tribe company groups.
In my prior function as EVP and Chief Working Officer for Liquid Internet and Nexcess, I led our Managed Internet hosting, Managed Purposes, and Cloud Improvement & Platform groups. And now, I welcome our StellarWP manufacturers and Fashionable Tribe into my purview as we extra intently align these nice manufacturers inside our set of merchandise that signify what we name our “Commerce Cloud” Enterprise.
We discuss with our grouping of world-class manufacturers as “Commerce Cloud” as a result of our enterprise is concentrated on offering one of the best cloud-based internet hosting, software, and software program merchandise to small and midsize companies that generate profits on-line. We’re obsessed with serving these corporations whose on-line enterprise is their enterprise — and the creators constructing on-line websites and shops.
In different very thrilling information, late final yr, our prior buyers Madison Dearborn Companions, in a really regular funding cycle, offered their funding to One Fairness Companions. We couldn’t be extra excited to have One Fairness Companions (OEP), a worldwide non-public fairness agency with ~$10 billion in property inside the industrial, healthcare, and expertise sectors in North America and Europe investing in us. They’ve important expertise investing in expertise, and we’re thrilled so as to add their management and experience to our crew.
Oftentimes, these adjustments might be met with skepticism and concern that the corporate will change in ways in which don’t profit the communities they serve — and typically, that skepticism is warranted. Not right here. As a administration crew, we had enter into who our subsequent associate can be — and I’m fairly energized and excited concerning the subsequent section of Liquid Internet’s alternatives, significantly as a result of OEP will probably be investing in our internet hosting, purposes, and software program product strains to broaden our presence available in the market. They’re desirous about our progress, not simply squeezing money out of a very nice asset. It’s why I’m right here, why I’m excited, and why we’re working arduous to place collectively new and thrilling product roadmaps throughout our portfolio with an emphasis on higher internet hosting choices, tooling, and capabilities.
With the enthusiastic backing of OEP, you will notice our manufacturers proceed to develop globally. You might be assured that our buyer technique for our Liquid Internet household of manufacturers (Liquid Internet, Nexcess, StellarWP) is extra centered than ever — empowering our small companies and their creators to generate profits on-line. We’ll do that by increasing our product strains into new internet hosting areas and capabilities, including efficiency, safety, and reliability options into our current product strains, and enhancing the usability of all our merchandise — from internet hosting to purposes to software program.
You could have seen that we proceed to broaden our VMware providing, not too long ago asserting the growth of our VCDA capabilities into our Phoenix knowledge heart and refreshing our VPS product line. We’ve additionally simply launched two merchandise constructed to ship safety and peace of thoughts for our prospects. For our Managed Purposes prospects, the Efficiency Defend add-on powered by Cloudflare supplies best-in-class CDN, DDoS, and WAF safety with many extra options out there for personalization of your wants. And for WordPress prospects experiencing issues with malware infections, we’ve launched our Malware Remediation Program, which may take the ache out of getting your website up and working once more.
Internet hosting for our options stays a cornerstone of our worth proposition, and we have now work lined as much as broaden and lengthen our choices in thrilling methods. Refreshed Devoted Server choices, feature-rich VPS merchandise, and extension of our VMware IaaS and PaaS options are core to how we offer rock-solid internet hosting for our prospects. We’re additionally within the means of including quite a few safety and add-on capabilities to our product units, in addition to integrations to some main platform applied sciences that our prospects depend on extra on daily basis.
For these of you in our large WordPress group, because it pertains to our StellarWP Manufacturers, I’ll be taking the reins from Joe Oesterling, who’s shifting on to pursue a brand new profession path. Joe’s been my associate and good friend for almost 15 years, and I actually hope to hold on his ardour and focus for participating in the neighborhood and serving our prospects with one of the best services and products potential.
As I write this, I’m reflecting on WordCamp Europe and making ready for WordCamp US — occasions that all the time energize me by assembly with companions, buddies, and, sure, even rivals. I’m all the time impressed with the organizers, the standard of the occasions, the keynotes, and the periods. It’s arduous to explain what it’s prefer to be surrounded by 2,000 of your closest WordPress buddies — all professionals dedicated to this ecosystem that has modified the way in which websites and shops are constructed for a lot of the world. It’s extraordinary to have the ability to attend in-person occasions of this caliber, which we could have taken with no consideration previous to Covid.
WordPress and our software program options stay core to our progress plans. WordPress stays the dominant CMS, and we’ll proceed to search for methods to draw SMBs and creators to our internet hosting infrastructure, our premium WordPress plugins, and/or our simplified SaaS options, similar to LearnDash Cloud. We stay dedicated to our commerce cloud technique of creating it simpler to construct on WordPress.
We’ve got a stable management crew with years of internet hosting and software program expertise on the helm of our growth efforts. And we have now over 1,000 dedicated crew members who assist us serve our prospects 24/7/365. I’m enthusiastic about this subsequent evolution of our technique to grow to be the chief in cloud computing for small and midsize companies. You will have my assurance that our mission stays core to who we’re and what you must count on.
As all the time, I might love to listen to from our companions, prospects, and group members. I can all the time be reached at carrie@liquidweb.com.
Right here’s to the long run,
Carrie Wheeler
President, Liquid Internet Household of Manufacturers