Adam Fisher

The core platform and website is written with an ASP .NET Core front end and a .NET Core worker service for background tasks.

MySQL powers the backend data persistence for domains and DNS records registered through the service.

HubSpot allows us to centralize our communication and outreach efforts along with providing a holistic view of each business contact. It has been an invaluable cloud business tool we also use to access contacts on the go.

WordPress provides a complete ecosystem to manage a website and it was chosen as the core platform for our website along with a designer curated theme.

We initially tried Polylang but found it to be too manual. We were looking for something more rapid and WeGlot surprisingly delighted. We just installed the plugin and it got to work automatically performing machine translations of the five languages we chose.

We only use Azure DevOps for our build and deploy pipeline to an Azure VM. The boards and planning functionality is ok but we think there are other products better suited to that job. The package feed is also invaluable because you get 2 GB of private feed storage.

We use Tawk.to to provide live sales chat on our website. Tawk.to is perfect for a shoe string budget and comes with a delightfully packed feature set for being a free product. We plan to use this until it outgrows our needs.

WordPress powers the core of our website because of its extensibility, rich plugin ecosystem, and effortless configuration. We ended up creating a custom plugin to support our special business logic. Normally we would have had to create a login area and layout our site manually but not so with WordPress.

Cloudflare CDN allows us to cache over 90% of our static assets and serve them globally while removing load on our servers. I highly recommend them as you won't find another CDN provider like them offering free global distribution. Same goes for DNS service.

CloudFlare provides the DNS resolution for our site because they have the fastest benchmarks in the industry on DNSPerf.com. They also offer free SSL and proxy caching capabilities back to the origin server so we can get by with lower hardware requirements for a longer period of time.