Monetize your website with Arc vs Pagely

Make money and accelerate your website

Websites rely on ads to survive. Users hate ads and having their personal data exploited. Arc's widget resolves this conflict by enabling websites to monetize hardware, not humans.

How? Websites add Arc’s widget with one line of code. While users browse these sites, without doing or giving up anything (including performance or personal info), Arc responsibly unites some of their idle device bandwidth into a distributed content delivery network (CDN). Websites rent the CDN, revenue is pooled, and websites get paid for the time users spend on their sites. Users get a faster, less distracting web experience and support the sites they love with unused bandwidth, not their wallets or attention.

Arc is a two-sided marketplace. Some websites install Arc to make money. Their users contribute bandwidth to Arc’s peer-to-peer CDN. Other websites rent Arc’s low cost CDN to reduce hosting costs and improve performance. Many websites do both. As regulators crack down on data privacy and ad revenue declines, Arc offers website owners a safe, sustainable way to monetize their content.

Try it with no cost or commitment. Learn more and sign up free at https://arc.io/?ref={source} (append a source ID to the main link for each posted source. i.e. https://arc.io/?ref=r%imadethis or https://arc.io/?ref=apprater)

Location: Palo Alto, United States

We help startups scale WordPress.

Pagely created the Managed WordPress hosting space in 2009, and has been providing secure and reliable WP hosting services to companies like Facebook and NGINX with a focus on:

Performance: Opcode caching, full page caching, optimized PHP and Database setups are essentially platform defaults now instead of the customer trying to figure it out on their own with a mix of plugins and research. More sensible resource balancing on shared setups (old shared hosting providers were notorious for overselling). Collectively these things have made WordPress dramatically faster (vs. a default install) in most use cases.

Security: Some level of malware/file scanning, hardened OS installs, least-privileged access, web application firewalls and DDoS mitigation may be defaults at most Managed WordPress providers now. You don’t hear about widespread security issues as we did in say the 2008-2011 period. Those that come up are mitigated quickly by the Core team (or the respective plugin author) and aided by rapidly deployed patches or firewall rules by the Managed hosts.

Tooling: Automating installs, code updates, and backups along with staging and deployment workflows enabled development teams to work faster and create more complex yet stable sites on WordPress.

Support: More knowledgeable support technicians that understand WordPress to a higher degree than a generic web host. Some providers are better than others but all seem to at least make an attempt to specialize in the unique support requirements of WordPress. Here at Pagely we take great pride in our quality over quantity approach to support ensuring that every agent is not only deeply skilled in WordPress but proficient in the core technical skills of DevOps and deployment management allowing them to address any performance or security issue that may arise.

What’s next for Pagely?
It’s odd to look at the landscape, this $1 Billion-channel we created (and of course others helped to grow) and reflect on where we fit in the picture going forward. For us, it’s fairly simple – do more of the things that have made us successful thus far: Investing in our people and focusing on the customer. It’s a recipe that wins over the long term.