Why is wpintense a scam?
This article was written by a former disgruntled contractor for WP Intense, not by Dave Hilditch. His account has been deleted – you can see my full apology and my response to this article here – but I’m keeping this article up for posterity, and also because he has promised to post all over the internet that my business is a scam, so I need the SEO to counter him 🙂 Here’s his article in full:
Wp intense doesn’t really do any of its own technical aspect programming, it uses sites such as peopleperhour.com to hire freelance designers & coders and then masquerades as the golden boy one man band.
Currently we owe multiple freelancers money and are refusing to pay for hours spent making this business appear worthwhile. Even when given the opportunity to make good and negotiate a price just to end the issue.
I can see anyone reading will probably be a party in the many un-answered or broken support requests for this company and its other products.
Do not trust this man.
Another example of the mirage is the famous rocket stack is in fact just a collection of readily available free software most hosting companies will help you configure the same for a fraction of the price.
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June 6, 2017 @ 7:14 pm
Erm. Has Jarred got the hump?
June 6, 2017 @ 7:15 pm
Ugh – I can’t believe he did this. Yes. He has the hump.
He overcharged me in 3 consecutive invoices and I called him on it. I have proof he did it. Can’t believe he’s made it public.
I’ll delete his account.
June 28, 2017 @ 12:11 am
“Another example of the mirage is the famous rocket stack is in fact just a collection of readily available free software most hosting companies will help you configure the same for a fraction of the price.”
While I can’t make comment on the other aspects of this post – This comment is true though the rocket stack is just a collection of free software. As your billing is in pounds it is potentially possible to find someone that will configure a very similar stack at a lower cost. But realistically you even had a guide on how to setup the old stack yourself so this is not new news. I’m not saying you should setup the stack for free etc.
Config server etc charge $130 us to setup a cpanel server and that’s a pretty easy setup so with a more complicated stack like the rocket stack i’d expect it to cost more.
June 28, 2017 @ 12:24 am
I don’t set up cPanel for anyone – I hate cPanel. I bill in pounds because I’m Scottish.
If you want to install the Rocket Stack yourself you CAN – I don’t hold my information and knowledge back – here’s the guide to do it yourself for free:
https://www.wpintense.com/2017/06/12/installing-and-configuring-fastest-possible-wordpress-stack-digital-ocean/
You are correct, it’s a collection of free software, but it’s highly configured etc with my configs, all available for free at the link above, all personally configured by me (I’ve moved away from using Ansible now thanks to too much confusion over config setup with it).
You are more than welcome to hire a developer to follow my guide above if you wish – I charge what I charge, but I provide all DIY guides I personally use for such work for free. You can’t surely criticise that?