By Mark Sutton Tuesday, 9th February 2010 As you may have read, TechCrunch , a blog focused on profiling and reviewing internet products, was hacked a couple of weeks ago. They were using Rackspace's hosting service, but if you run a traceroute on the TechCrunch domain you'll see that it's now pointing to wordpress.com. Even more of a giveaway, they have changed the hosting tag in the footer of their site, so it now says, " Powered by WordPress.com VIP ". Make that Change? It's easy to understand why a web site like TechCrunch would have knee jerk reaction to their site being compromised and change host. They're a large company who have been operating since 2005, have built a large following, and have expanded into Japan as well as focusing on specific parts of the internet market, such as mobile, hardware, and new startups. But why change to WordPress VIP? WordPress VIP WordPress.com VIP hosting is aimed at businesses with a high profile, or new start ups that have gained the interest of wordpress.com . They consider you a good candidate for VIP hosting if your receiving around 1 million views of your blog a month. They host your site across 1000 servers in three different data centres, and offer the obligatory 24/7 support, as well as hourly backups and various other generic features, (spam protection, site map, etc...) The description of this hosting product actually says, "Because of the nature of this program it is not open to