bstroh.com is built on a simple premise: hosting a website shouldn't be complicated or expensive.

Too many people are paying $20-50/month for website builders that lock them into proprietary systems, charge extra for basic features, and make it nearly impossible to leave. We believe there's a better way.

Our platform leverages modern cloud infrastructure to deliver fast, secure, and reliable websites for a fraction of the cost — typically under $25/year for hosting. No monthly fees. No hidden charges. Just simple, straightforward website ownership.

🏗️ AWS Infrastructure

Your website runs on Amazon Web Services — the same infrastructure that powers Netflix, Airbnb, and countless Fortune 500 companies. We use:

• S3 for ultra-reliable static file storage
• CloudFront CDN for lightning-fast global content delivery
• Route 53 for DNS management
• ACM for free SSL certificates (HTTPS)

This architecture means your site loads fast from anywhere in the world, stays online 99.99% of the time, and scales automatically if you go viral.

🎨 Visual Page Builder

No coding required. Our admin interface lets you:

• Drag and drop components to build pages visually. Copy existing components to easily keep your style consistent.
• Choose from multiple color schemes or customize your own
• Upload images and create galleries to highlight your best work
• Add submission forms to standardize how your audience interacts with you
• Preview changes before publishing

The entire admin system runs on a tiny, cost-efficient server that hibernates when not in use.

🤖 Built With AI

Here's something cool: every page you're reading on this site was created using an AI chatbot.

The infrastructure, this homepage, even the admin interface itself — all generated through conversation with an AI assistant. This isn't just a gimmick; it's a preview of where we're headed.

We used Claude Code (Anthropic's CLI tool) to build the entire platform — from the AWS CDK infrastructure to the Flask admin app to the Jinja2 templates. The AI wrote the code, debugged issues, and even migrated content from the old MkDocs blog format to our new component system.

💬 AI Content Generation

Imagine describing what you want and having AI create it for you:

• "Create a page about our summer sale" → Full page with compelling content, proper structure, and call-to-action buttons
• "Generate a jaw-dropping image of a mountain sunset" → Custom AI-generated imagery tailored to your brand
• "Write a blog post about our new product launch" → Search Engine Optimized content ready to publish

We're building chatbot interfaces directly into the admin panel so you can create entire pages through natural conversation.

🖼️ AI Image Generation

No more searching stock photo sites or paying for expensive graphics:

• Generate custom illustrations that match your brand colors
• Create product mockups and lifestyle imagery
• Design logos, icons, and graphics on demand
• Automatically optimize and resize images for web

We're integrating with state-of-the-art image generation models to put professional-quality visuals at your fingertips.

We're transparent about where we are. Here are the major gaps we need to address before this platform can scale to serve many users:

🔐 Authentication & Multi-tenancy

Currently, each site has a simple password. We need proper user accounts, OAuth integration, and secure session management to support multiple users managing multiple sites.

💳 Billing & Subscription Management

To offer this as a service, we need Stripe integration for payments, usage tracking, and automated provisioning of new sites when customers sign up.

📊 Monitoring & Observability

We need comprehensive logging, error tracking, uptime monitoring, and alerting. When something breaks at 3 AM, we need to know about it before our customers do.

🔄 CI/CD & Infrastructure as Code

The deployment process needs to be fully automated with proper staging environments, rollback capabilities, and infrastructure changes tracked in version control.

📧 Email & Notifications

Contact form submissions currently need a backend to actually send emails. We need SES integration, notification systems, and proper email deliverability.

🛡️ Security Hardening

Rate limiting, DDoS protection, input validation, CSRF protection, and regular security audits are all essential before handling real customer data.

This is Just the Beginning

bstroh.com started as a personal project to learn AWS and explore what's possible with AI-assisted development. It's grown into something more — a vision for how website hosting should work.

Simple. Affordable. Intelligent.

Check out the blog to follow along with the journey, or get in touch using the contact form in the sidebar.