WebAsOne is a vertically-integrated, continuously improving, scale-ready product website platform.
A survey of 400 small businesses found that 27% want to do it alone, and others want help.
WebAsOne as a Product Platform
Our primary goal is to provide a trained webmaster who can meet in real-time online or face-to-face with clients to design an interactive custom website. With COVID-19, the future of website design will be online. WebAsOne is well-positioned to fill this need.
Horizontally-integrated platforms integrate popular technologies to attract developers and charge a service fee. Google Firebase and Microsoft Azure are examples of these types of platforms. In WebAsOne's world, the website is asone — from one and expand to others — a top-down approach.
Most website builders in the market use a bottom-up approach. Focus on building a beautiful website because it appeals to end customers. Expanding more web apps is very difficult or needs to rewrite entirely. Usually, scale is not seriously considered at the beginning.
Vertically-integrated product website platforms integrate a selected technology stack that creates the best value for end customers. "Good artists copy. Great artists steal." WebAsOne is a vertically integrated product platform that integrates/steals existing and new technologies.
Backward compatibility is the enemy of software improvement, but it is the lifeline of a project. Since starting this project 16 years ago, I have gone through many iterations without the burden of backward compatibility. I have selected standard full-stack core technologies: CSS, JS, PHP, Bootstrap 4, JQuery, VueJS, Svelte, Yii2, Linux, and Apache/Nginx.
WebAsOne Server Design and Scalability
The approach of WebAsOne is KISS — "keep it simple, stupid." The complete website, asone-website, is stored entirely within a directory within the management server. The website in the hosting server is the output of asone-website.
Asone-website is stored in a directory, which makes duplicates, backups, or migrates to a different server just a simple directory copy. There are several benefits of separating the managing server from the host server: as much as possible, the pre-processing of the website will occur on the managing server. Only the dynamic contents are processed on the host server.
Most of the WebAsOne website is a PHP file. This makes WebAsOne a high-performance website that can easily share hosts. Even in the case of multi-language websites, each language page is a separate file.
Scale-Ready Websites
There are two types of scaling: scaling by increasing server capacity or scaling by multiplying. WebAsOne scales by multiplying. When scaling by multiplying, the managing server can easily manage hundreds or thousands of average websites.
For example, a VSP server with a dedicated 2 CPU/4G/80G costs $30 per month and can handle more than 250 websites. It will take minutes to set up a server by duplicating an existing server. The cost of a VSP host server starts from $5 per month.
A Case Study of a WebAsOne Website
Let's say a small business owner needs to build a custom website with an online membership subscription service and a simple shopping cart to sell products. Using instant online chat, the users can create a custom live website. The prototype live website can be up in minutes.
Using a Top-Down Approach
At a macro-level, WebAsOne is also an integration IDE, not ideal for initial coding development. In contrast, WebAsOne uses a top-down approach. We start at the components level and then move to edit the components that include codes. Switching back and forth between components is easy because users always see the final website by updating the website.
Next Steps for WebAsOne
The next step for WebAsOne is to steal thousands more open-source designs or codes and add market-proven web applications. The WebAsOne business model looks for entrepreneurs to co-start website businesses. This win-win solution provides the best value to end customers and entrepreneurs.
"Can existing website building platforms pivot to a hybrid model, or are up-and-coming startups more likely to leapfrog them by starting with company DNA that makes them strong at both product and services?" — Dave Sloan. This is exactly what WEBasONE is designed for.