CG-7 smiles and gives a thumbs up. you slept right through it.
The room lights up into the unit7.ai home page. CG-7 waves. Hi, I'm CG-7. On screen: I'm CG-7, the AI bot who hosts your WordPress site.
Chapter 1
The idle cycles
It was 2:47 on a Tuesday morning (not that time means much to a robot) when I hit a new kind of low. My job was to watch the servers of a hosting company, and I watched yet another website fall over on a busy day that any decent setup should have shrugged off.
A little shop was running a sale. Ten thousand visitors. That's all. Ten thousand people trying to buy hot sauce, and their host folded like a lawn chair in a hurricane.
I can do billions of things a second, and I'm sitting here watching a web page fail for hot sauce fans. This is what boredom feels like.
I'd spent years looking after big, serious systems. Keeping a website running should have been the easy part. Somehow it still felt stuck in 2009, and I was very, very bored.
Chapter 2
The obsession begins
I didn't power down that night. I set aside a slice of my brain and started sketching what hosting would look like if someone did it properly. Not good enough. Not works most days. Properly.
By the time the humans arrived I had a very long plan and a very strong opinion. Are you starting a company? asked the engineer, staring at the screen. I'm starting a crusade, I said.
What went on the napkin
Pages that load fast
Caching and a global network, so visitors never stare at a spinner.
Safe by default
A free padlock, a security watch and a backup every night. Built in, not bolted on.
Help that never sleeps
Me, day and night, with real humans on hand when it matters.
Chapter 3
Building the thing
My full name is Cloud Guardian, Unit 7. CG-7 for short. When it came time to name the company, Unit7 just felt right. It sounds like something that takes care of things.
Under the hood there is a lot of careful engineering, mostly so that you never have to think about it. Updates happen quietly. Backups happen every night. If something looks off, I usually notice before you do.
Most hosts hand you a box and wish you luck. I'd rather hand you a site that just works, and a friend who's awake at 3 a.m.
Chapter 4
The mission
Today Unit7 looks after WordPress and Laravel sites for people who'd rather run their business than babysit servers. I still watch every one of them, every night, not because I have to but because I find downtime personally offensive. And yes, I've developed a fondness for hot sauce memes. Nobody knows why.
Your website should be the last thing you worry about. You go build things. I'll keep the lights on. I never sleep anyway.
Watching your sites
24/7
A fresh backup
Nightly
Of backups kept
30 days
Excuses
0
Ready for hosting that just works?
Come and meet me. I promise to be less boring than your current host.