r/ShittySysadmin ShittyCloud 21h ago

How to quickly provision a website/company stack? domain/email/hosting

I need to setup a company fast! FAST!

Any way to set this all up fast? How about with AI? Ideally ChatGPT connected. What if I wanted the whole thing "unified"?

I heard the "CLI" is useful.

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u/TwoPlyDreams 20h ago

Get a couple of devs, a trillion token credit and have a vibe-rator party.

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u/bippy_b 16h ago

Devs?!?! Just ask ClaudeCode to do it for you!

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u/christopher_mtrl 17h ago

I heard the "CLI" is useful.

Yes, but the CLI can be hard to find.

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u/Pure_Fox9415 16h ago

I know the guy, who know the guy, who can sell you some cli

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u/mumblerit ShittyCloud 21h ago

https://www.reddit.com/r/devops/comments/1w44la7/how_to_quickly_provision_a_websitecompany_stack/

Say I want to establish a company or an organization's representation on the web quickly. The 'stack' involves domain, email in/out, public-facing website, (optionally) social media presence.

Are there any products out there that unify the 'stack' and allow provisioning from minimal amount of steps? Or do I need to set up each item through separate providers?

Ideal if the solution has an MCP or cli.

Thanks ❤️

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u/0dinscan 15h ago

Skip the CLI entirely! No need, just open 47 browser tabs, each a different "all-in-one" SaaS free trial and digitally duct-tape them together with Zapier zaps you'll forget exist.

For domain buy it through whatever ad Instagram showed you at 2am.

Email you connect to ChatGPT through a Chrome extension called "TotallyLegitMailSync" you install it because the icon looks trustworthy (it's a padlock).

Hosting you just click "Deploy" on a template you don't understand, ignore every warning step and call the stack "unified" because all the tabs are pinned in the same browser window.

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u/Affectionate-Cat-975 12h ago

Don't forget to grant it full access to your super secure LastPass account. That'll never get hacked

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u/JicamaParticular3421 17h ago

Yeah I did this with Claude but it’s not one click setup. You just basically need to be the hands. For example, setting up email, DNS, hosting website.

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u/d__max 21h ago

I prefer hiring full stack IT architecture expertise on Fiverr to simply leveraging agentic AI because I can ask a human for general questions after the completion of the contract with Fiverr. Usually.

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u/SpudzzSomchai ShittySysadmin 19h ago

I wish I didn't work for a company that did. I no longer work there so I got that going for me.

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u/GarageIntelligent ShittyCloud 9h ago

Perfect time to go serverless

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u/LivingOperation2513 21h ago

AI can help coordinate the setup, but there isn’t really a safe “one click” unified system yet. I’d start with a domain registrar, managed email, and a simple hosting provider, then connect them through documented APIs. Use a checklist and verify DNS, SPF/DKIM/DMARC, SSL, backups, and ownership before calling it done.

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u/Forward-Outside-9911 ShittySysadmin 19h ago

Wrong sub, that’s far too sensible