Building a Shared Hosting Platform on Azure
As part of a personal project, I built a shared hosting platform on Azure. The goal was to support web hosting for PHP-based CMS platforms like WordPress - similar to traditional shared hosting, but fully automated and cloud-native. What I Set Out to Build The requirements were simple to state, less simple to deliver: Host multiple websites on a LAMP-style stack Support multiple PHP versions Achieve high availability and performance Ensure secure access and traffic flow Integrate CI/CD for deployments Provide monitoring and logging What’s Actually In the Platform To keep it modular, I split the implementation into layers: ...