– Thousands of customers have their site hosted there

– A break down of their stack (there’s a lot going on)

– Motivation for choosing a mixture of programming languages and frameworks

– All of the services are independent and live in their own git repo

– The image optimizer service is written with Laravel

– MongoDB is quite heavily used by a number of services

– How to optimize CSS and JS bundles with many WordPress plugins

– The hosting service is written in Python with MySQL for a DB (hosted on GCP)

– It’s mostly Linux containers being used but Docker is used in some spots

– End customers don’t need to worry about things like nginx and SSL certs

– Other tech components that’s in their stack

– Payments are handled monthly or annually with Stripe and PayPal

– Client sites are hosted on Google Cloud and their services are on OVH

– Some of the servers are pretty beefy with 32GB of memory and 8+ CPU cores

– Developers can run everything on their own laptops

– The developers who build a service are responsible for deploying it

– The process to set up a server is documented and automated when possible

– Customers can access their hosted sites very quickly after signing up

– The deployment process from development to production

– Databases are backed up and core services are load balanced

– Keeping track of errors, monitoring and alerting

– Cloudflare is sitting in front of the core services

– Best tips? Really focus on getting a good architecture designed early on

– Check out https://10web.io/, Tigran’s LinkedIn and their Engineer blog