Architectural overview

In medium-length sentence: qte’s WP platform is a multi-tenancy cloud environment built on Google Kubernetes Engine, with the purpose of making hosting of WordPress sites (including headless) be as performant, easy and cost-effective as possible.

So what does this really mean? It means that we need have to challenge the current hosting landscape and come up with a solution for our customers and engineers that solves these problems while not adding additional complexity.

Again, a huge shoutout to WordPress VIP, Automattic’s own (minimum $25000) enterprise offering. They do a lot of things right and have really paved the way on how to do WordPress hosting the most optimal way.

Key components

Google Kubernetes Engine

GKE is the core foundation on which the platform is built on. Traditionally, WordPress sites are hosted on VM instances, and updates to the sites are done through FTP. This opens the door for countless human errors; accidental file overwrites, hard rollback scenarios, scalability issues etc. Kubernetes solves all these problems in one very simple way: containerized applications.