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Managed WordPress hosting platform

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The battle for WordPress: WP Engine vs. Automattic

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Majority owned by Silver Lake, fighting legal battle with Automattic

Silver Lake invested $250 million in WP Engine in 2018, taking majority control of the managed WordPress hosting company. Six years later, WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg called WP Engine a cancer to WordPress and banned them from WordPress.org resources, triggering a legal battle that has split the community powering 43% of the web.

Updated Jan 8