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tmaly on April 5, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: What made WordPress so freaking popular?

things started out on shared hosting. WordPress is easy to install on shared hosting, so it took off. It also has a nice graphical install process.

If everything was a shared VPS, that would have been a different story.

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