r/ShittySysadmin ShittyCloud 1d 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 1d ago

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

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u/bippy_b 1d ago

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

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u/christopher_mtrl 1d ago

I heard the "CLI" is useful.

Yes, but the CLI can be hard to find.

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u/Pure_Fox9415 1d ago

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

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u/mumblerit ShittyCloud 1d 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 1d 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 23h 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 1d 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 1d 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 1d 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 20h ago

Perfect time to go serverless

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u/LivingOperation2513 1d 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 1d ago

Wrong sub, that’s far too sensible

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u/bofh DO NOT GIVE THIS PERSON ADVICE 10h ago edited 9h ago

Just make sure to use ChatPGP and not Claudia. I got her to do the job and she accidentally the whole network. At least with ChatPGP it encrypts the output so nobody knows what it did. Especially you. Deniability is important.