Matt Mullenweg announced on his blog this week that all free WordPress.Com accounts now come with 3 Gigabytes of disk space available. This is HUGE - considering that space generally costs money on the web and 3GB is rather generous. The space increase for WordPress.Com users is not only useful, but greatly appreciated!
The space is increased from the original 50MB - that’s quite a leap!
More details can be found at the WordPress.Com News Blog:
Much of the work we do at Automattic is behind the scenes, infrastructure you’ll (hopefully) never notice or see, but we’re always thinking about how the improvements we make to the foundation of the site will allow us to build more interesting things on top of it.
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Our hope is that much in the same way Gmail transformed the way people think about email, we’ll give people the freedom to blog rich media without having to worry about how many kilobytes are left in their upload space.
What about those folks who had already purchased the 1GB upgrade???
..we’re also increasing the limits of the paid upgrades, so if you bought a 1GB upgrade before it now adds 5GB for no additional charge.
Before you think that this is your solution for streaming your own video or audio files on your WordPress.Com - in order to do that, you’ll still need to pay for the space upgrade.
How does the free WordPress.Com blogging soluton now compare with their competition at Typepad.com and Blogger.com - in terms of space availability??
Today, one of those developments comes to fruition — everyone’s free upload space has been increased 60x from 50mb to 3,000mb. To get the same amount of space at our nearest competitor, Typepad, you’d pay at least $300 a year. Blogger only gives you 1GB. We’re doing the same thing for free.
As always - bandwidth at WordPress.com is unlimited, and remains free.
This makes WordPress.Com *almost* perfect. The one thing that Typepad and Blogger have over WordPress.Com is that on those two other services, you can freely advertise on your blog. As of right now, WordPress.Com disallows advertising unless you are a member of their VIP Club.
