INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
WordPress remains the juggernaut of content management systems, even though it now often gets used in ways it was never intended
And with that, managing the life cycle of WordPress sites has only gotten more complicated, too, all while hackers are trying to exploit any
and all security issues to take control of a site
looks at a page.The Israeli company today announced that it has raised a $6.5 million seed round led by SignalFire and TenOneTen Ventures,
with participation from Accel, Automattic, Seneca VC, Eric Ries and Village Global VC
CTO.About 13 years ago, Strattic CEO and co-founder Miriam Schwab founded a WordPress web development company
At that time, WordPress was often still seen as a tool for running personal blogs, but that has obviously changed over time
But she realized that once her agency handed off the site to the customer, they would often come back to her to ask for maintenance as well
major issues, so I thought, all right, why not marry these two worlds? WordPress stays WordPress, but maybe we turn it into a static site
It means that your site is 99.99999% more unhackable than before
Strattic, users still get the usual WordPress experience, but the company only spins up a WordPress container when you are using it, which
significantly reduces the attack surface, and then generates the static sites as you make changes
Those static sites obviously load very fast and also provide a smaller attack surface
very nice pace and getting real customers
So in order to raise this round, the company went to Silicon Valley, looking to raise $2 million but came back with $6.5 million in an
oversubscribed round.The team plans to use the new funding to build out its product team and start rolling out new features quickly
system, because they rely on database connections
Support for these types of sites is in the works, though.
