Profile
Name | Host Magi |
About Me | I have been involved in WordPress since 2005. I have devoted my professional life to WordPress as a freelancer, in my career, and now in my own businesses. I have a background in hosting and design, but my passions are teaching, securing, and managing WordPress. I am married to an amazing woman and together we have 4 beautiful children. When I am not working in WordPress, I am with my family, riding my 4-wheeler, or airgun hunting. |
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Current Location | Iowa |
WordPress Origin Story | I originally discovered WordPress in 2005. At first, I was not overly impressed and sort of saw it as “yet another blogging platform”, like the many others that were popping up at the time. But because I am an open source enthusiast, I followed the project. By mid/late 2006, I had become fairly impressed with the project, so I started my first WordPress blog. By early 2007, I had fallen irrevocably n love with WordPress. I began building small throwaway sites, for the sole purpose of learning everything I could about WordPress. In 2014 I attended and spoke at my first WordCamp, WordCamp Omaha. Shortly after that, I was hired by InMotion Hosting where I spent a year before moving to Missouri and eventually going to work for A2 Hosting. Then in 2017, I was hired by Pressable where I worked as a customer success engineer. Later in 2017, I founded WP Top Hat to bring my vision of WordPress maintenance and hosting to the WordPress community. I sold WP Top Hat in 2019. My first company, Host Magi, had continued to serve customers during this time, but without a major focus on growth, more or less as a hobby. In 2023,I decided to revive and reinvent Today Host Magi exists as the most comprehensive and complete managed WordPress platform available by offering features that usually require multiple providers in a single platform. I continue to contribute to the WordPress community by speaking at WordCamps, teaching WordPress to others for free, and participating in various WordPress forums, slack groups, and social media. |
Company | Host Magi Inc |
Job Title | CEO/Founder |
Interests | Air rifle & crossbow hunting |
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Contribution
Sponsored | No |
Hours per week | 5 |
Contributor Teams | Hosting Team, Support Team, Training Team, TV Team |