A few days ago I wrote about building an automated WordPress deployment platform using Terraform and AI. Well, i’m happy to report that the entire platform is live and ready for you to explore and launch your own WordPress website.
Introducing 45Squared’s WordPress deployment platform powered by Ubuntu and Claude. Try it out today at https://ai.45sq.net.
Let’s talk about how this all works.
The front end infrastructure that an end user will see is pretty straightforward. I am utilizing an ECS cluster and NextJS to deliver the end user experience. The second portion of the user experience is handled by an AWS API Gateway to manage all of the user credentials, payment processing, sit launch status. Authentication is handled by AWS Cognito. Hate on it all you want, Cognito works just fine when configured correctly.
Behind the scenes, once a user transaction has completed successfully, the website is provisioned using another ECS task. This container runs through a sequence of steps to provision the AWS EC2 instance for the user to utilize. Each tenant instance is running a hardened Ubuntu image that is built using Packer. I will cover this in another post. Throughout the provisioning process, the task is updating the DynamoDB table so that the user gets a live look into how their website is progressing.
Each tenant is given a subdomain as well as the ability to utilize a custom domain name. Each tenant is also given a Cloudfront CDN for global static content distribution. And of course, each tenant receives their own SSL certificate for both their custom domain and their subdomain.
Each site can be managed by SSM which will eventually be linked into an AI agent for management through Slack or another messaging platform.
I don’t intend to use this platform to compete with the large players. 45Squared’s vision has always been to serve the small to medium size businesses who want personalized support while still receiving an amazing product. This platform gives them the ability to quickly launch a website and get their company on the world wide web within 10 minutes.
If you are interested in building out a website using the platform the first few users can receive 50% using code “BETATESTER50”. There are limited redemption so be sure to get going quickly!