VIP Hosting for Top Wordpress.com Bloggers

Top bloggers can now use the robust Wordpress.com platform to take their blog to the next level. Targetted at high profile and high-traffic bloggers using WordPress, they introduce VIP Hosting which allows you to use the WordPress.com infrastructure, without the limitations of a free WordPress.com account.

Some of the cool features you can have are your own domain name, people logged in to WordPress.com will also be logged in on your domain, which makes it easier for them to comment and link you. Of course there will be integrated Akismet spam protection and a chance to feature in top lists. You can now edit your templates via Subversion (SVN), run most plugins (that don’t modify DB tables) and now there will be no restrictions on ads placement and javascript usage.

Now that you like all those features and get ready to upgrade to VIP hosting, lets talk about what you need to pay and do…

A Wordpress VIP blog does not come with cheap webhosting. $500 to setup your site and $250 a month! Moreover you need to put a “Powered by WordPress.com” logo on your site, a few hooks in your template for their centralized stats and all your tags point to the Wordpress Tags community.

They are open to only a limited number of people and if you get more than 100,000 pageviews a month on your blog, you could be a good applicant… Interested?