2024-09-23 –, Grand Ballroom III
This talk will touch on strategies and challenges we have encountered along our journey of hosting over 1,000 Django/Wagtail sites. Told in the storybook style of "One Thousand and One Nights" (a.k.a. "Arabian Nights") this talk will feature real-world anecdotes about: technical architecture, business challenges, financial challenges, customer support, and security challenges such as dealing with onslaughts of spammers and attack vectors.
The abstract says it all, however here is a more detailed breakdown of topics:
* Brief background about our hosting business and the types of sites we are hosting.
* Technical architectures (virtual machine vs docker vs cloud etc.)
* Problems of scale (how the heck do you actually keep track of 1,000 websites?!)
* Using Django to host Django (yes, the snake really does eat itself!)
* Financial challenges we have encountered (customers wanting refunds, dealing with cloud provider billing nightmares, how we cut costs, etc.)
* Customer support (the most time-consuming part of the business, and how to reduce the need for support).
* Security nightmares (our own customers attacked us, the rise of A.I. spam bots, dealing with relentless attacks)
Hailing from the gritty metropolis of Cleveland, Ohio, Vince has over 10 years' experience as a Django developer ranging from Corporate America to bootstrapped startup. Vince co-founded CodeRed in 2013, which has since launched the specialized Django hosting platform, CodeRed Cloud, in 2020.