Ask HN: Companies of one, what is your tech stack?
I do not usually comment on Hacker News, but heck, I am actually proud of what I am building this time. I run an open-source WordPress hosting company focused on privacy — well, kinda, it is in closed beta —, so my stack is, maybe, a little boring.<p>Dedicated AMD 32 core RAID 10 servers from Hetzner running LXD for customer containers — seven containers per server on the cheapest plan. Each dedicated server has their filesystem encrypted with LUKS — including &#x2F;boot — and each container runs the &quot;default&quot; WordPress stack, i.e., NGINX, PHP-FPM, MariaDB, Redis, ElasticSearch, Postfix, WP-CLI, fail2ban, monit, aide, etc.<p>WordPress is modified to leak less data by default — heck, by default you can use their REST API to get the email of anyone who leaves a comment —, have a better-looking dashboard experience, and each container runs a TOR bridge to help people in oppressive regimes.<p>All servers run a slightly modified version of Ubuntu, resolve DNS queries using one of my 8 DNSCrypt servers, are managed using on-premise Canonical Landscape and connect to a Hashicorp Vault instance for credentials and whatnot.<p>Backups are handled by another big Hetzner server — sitting at 60 TB of storage right now —, by Rsync.net in their Switzerland location and by another server in my house. All backups are encrypted by default, but I still need to implement a way to test them to make sure they work.<p>The customer portal is being built with Laravel and will connect to the Hashicorp Vault instance to get credentials for customers. We didn&#x27;t choose the payment gateway yet, as the company is incorporated in Romania and options are kinda scarce, but we will probably go with Adyen and BitPay, which will connect to our Invoice Ninja instance.<p>The onboarding process for new customers is handled with Jitsi Meet — again, another Hetzner server.<p>The help desk was initially handled by Help Scout, but I migrated to Full Help recently — which I found on Hacker News —, and I could not be happier. The developer behind it is super awesome and went as far as adding GPG encryption and Postmark support when I asked for it.<p>I do have six other partners, but as I am currently building everything out myself, I guess it qualifies as a company of one? Partners will be responsible for different parts of the business, i.e., legal, documentation, and whatnot.