Case study
67 websites for Colombian SMBs
Ran a freelance web design and development practice in parallel to full-time roles, delivering 67 sites end to end: design, front-end implementation and DevOps/server maintenance.
- Company
- 1A Hosting
- Period
- Jan 2009 – Apr 2018
- My role
- Designer, developer and ops
Client work: the client isn’t named and there are no screenshots, so the architecture is described in words.
The problem
Small and mid-sized businesses in Colombia needed websites designed, built and kept running by one person.
Approach and architecture
Reusable templates and a shared deployment routine on self-managed Linux servers (LAMP).
Architecture
- LAMP stack on self-managed Linux servers.
Key decisions and trade-offs
- Reusable templates and a shared deployment routine to keep 67 sites maintainable by one person.
Outcome
67 sites delivered.
Key facts
- 67 sites delivered
Restated from the resume, with no estimates.
My role
Designer, developer and ops
Stack
- HTML5
- CSS3
- JavaScript
- PHP
- MySQL
- Linux