My First Micro-SaaS, Tech platforms used
Many hours of research, trial and error went into choosing the tech platforms that now make the foundation our service offering.
In 2018, it has never been easier to start a business thanks to tools and services like these!
Vultr
We use Vultr as our IaaS provider. Thanks to Vultr we don’t have to worry about managing hardware, datacenters, bandwidth, or IP address allocations. Vultr’s API made it easy for us to create servers automatically with our Python scripts.
Zabbix
We use Zabbix to monitor resources and uptime on all of our servers. We can spot and fix problems with server resources before they cause downtime, and configured custom alerts which trigger emails when something urgent comes up that we should look into right away.
Cloudflare DNS
All of our servers use Cloudflare for DNS. Records are created and deleted automatically by our Python scripts by using the API. Cloudflare ensures fast load times, and can help with DDoS protection if needed.
Stripe
Stripe handles our payment processing.
WordPress
WordPress is our website platform.
Startuply WordPress Theme
Startuply is our WordPress theme.
Easy Digital Downloads Stripe
Easy Digital Downloads Stripe WordPress plugin helped us integrate Stripe into our checkout process.
Easy Digital Downloads Recurring Payments
Easy Digital Downloads Recurring payments WordPress plugin helped us to be able to automatically bill subscribers each month.
DigitalOcean Spaces
DigitalOcean Spaces provided a super cheap storage for us to dump backups from all of our servers onto.