New comment by gshdg in "Ask HN: How would you rebuild WordPress for the modern web?"

Wordpress took off because even before it became a 1-click control panel install it could be installed in minutes with near-zero expertise on any of tens of thousands of cheap cPanel hosts starting around $1/mo.

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