Good news for the Wordpress.com bloggers. The free upload space for every account has been increased to 3GB. Yes, three Gigabytes. Mind it, earlier it was just 50mb. We think that, this 60 times increase in free space will encourage bloggers to use rich media in their Wordpress.com blogs. Also, 3GB is more than enough space for many blogs.

The Official Wordpress blog says:

Today, one of those developments comes to fruition — everyone’s free upload space has been increased 60x from 50mb to 3,000mb. To get the same amount of space at our nearest competitor, Typepad, you’d pay at least $300 a year. Blogger only gives you 1GB. We’re doing the same thing for free.

Our hope is that much in the same way Gmail transformed the way people think about email, we’ll give people the freedom to blog rich media without having to worry about how many kilobytes are left in their upload space.

But for some bloggers, 3GB is nothing! So, Wordpress.com has also increased the limits of the paid upgrades. Extra 5GB will be given for every 1GB paid upgrade. In Wordpress, paid upgrade is required to use certain file types, like movies.