Leahy & Co’s ownThe platform behind BuiltSite

BuiltSite builds websites for trades and small businesses, and every one of them needs somewhere to live. It has to be quick, hard to break into, and simple to change: a change to a client’s site should be live in minutes, and a mistake should be easy to undo.

I built the hosting platform every BuiltSite website runs on.

• Each website runs in a sealed container. It can serve its pages and send its enquiry emails, and nothing else. It can’t change its own files, so there’s very little for an attacker to work with.
• The server has no open doors to the internet. Visitors reach it through an outbound-only tunnel to Cloudflare, so there’s no port for anyone to knock on.
• Every change goes through the same automatic steps: build it, deploy it, then check the site through the same path a visitor uses. The previous version is kept ready to put back.
• The security settings every site needs live in one shared place, so a fix reaches every site at once.