WPJack

Over the course of the last 12 years, I’ve installed WordPress manually more than 250 times.

First, I was using bash scripts, lately I've been using Forge, Plesk and other tools. They are all good, but I needed something specific for WordPress.

One of my clients last summer requested web application for automatic installation of WordPress sites.

I investigated the market for some solution which could help me and landed with Plesk and their WordPress toolkit.

Published application, got over 700 WP sites in 1st week, super awesome.

But the issue with Plesk is its license model is based on the number of servers. It's not made for horizontal scaling of VPS instances. Meaning 1 bad site on the server can cause bad reputation for all the other sites.

This project made me think about existing Hosting Control panels, they are easy to use, anyone can use them but they are not good from perspective of scaling, security and domain reputation.

That's when I decided I am going to build WPJack.

Because of my other obligations I didn't immediately start developing.

During March of 2022 I started developing it as a side job and it was published live on 29th of June.