Custom Domains, SSL, and Hosting: The Infrastructure Behind Your AI-Built Site

Building a website is only half the job. The other half — the half most people don't think about until something breaks — is infrastructure. Where does the site live? How fast does it load? Is it secure? What happens if traffic spikes?

These aren't exciting questions, but they're the difference between a professional web presence and an embarrassing one. Here's a transparent look at the infrastructure stack behind every WebriQA site.

Custom Domains: Your Brand, Your Address

Every site starts on a WebriQA subdomain (yoursite.webriqa.com) so you can preview and test immediately. When you're ready, connecting your own domain takes about two minutes.

The process:

• Enter your domain name in the site settings
• Update your DNS records (we provide the exact values to copy)
• WebriQA detects the DNS change and provisions everything automatically

We support apex domains (yourbusiness.com) and subdomains (www.yourbusiness.com) — and we configure both so that visitors reach your site regardless of which version they type. No more "www vs non-www" headaches.

DNS Propagation

When you update DNS records, the change needs to spread across the global DNS network. This typically takes 5–30 minutes for most domains, though it can occasionally take up to 24 hours. We show real-time status in your dashboard so you know exactly when your domain is live.

SSL Certificates: Security Without Configuration

Every WebriQA site gets a free SSL certificate — automatically. You don't request it, configure it, or renew it. The moment your domain connects, we issue a certificate through our Cloudflare integration and enforce HTTPS across every page.

Why this matters:

• Trust: Browsers display a padlock icon for HTTPS sites. Without it, Chrome literally labels your site "Not Secure" — not the first impression you want.
• SEO: Google has used HTTPS as a ranking signal since 2014. It's a minor factor, but a free one.
• Data protection: SSL encrypts all data between your visitor's browser and your site. Contact form submissions, login credentials, payment info — all encrypted in transit.
• Compliance: Many industries require encrypted connections. SSL handles this by default.

Certificate renewal happens automatically before expiration. You'll never see an expired certificate warning on a WebriQA site.

CDN Edge Caching: Speed at Global Scale

Your site's files are distributed across Cloudflare's global network of 300+ data centers. When someone in Tokyo visits your site, they're loading it from a server in Tokyo — not from a single origin server in another continent.

This architecture delivers several benefits:

Faster Load Times

Physical distance between server and browser is one of the biggest factors in load time. A CDN eliminates this by caching your site at the edge — within milliseconds of every visitor on the planet. Typical time-to-first-byte (TTFB) for WebriQA sites is under 50ms globally.

Traffic Spike Protection

If your site goes viral on social media or gets featured in a news article, you don't need to worry about your server melting. The CDN absorbs traffic spikes across its distributed network. Whether you get 10 visitors or 10,000 in an hour, the experience is the same.

DDoS Mitigation

Cloudflare's network automatically detects and blocks malicious traffic. Distributed denial-of-service attacks — where thousands of bots flood your site to take it offline — are filtered before they reach your actual content. Enterprise-grade protection, included by default.

Hosting Architecture

WebriQA sites are served as static assets at the edge wherever possible, with server-side functionality handled by our application layer. This hybrid approach gives you the speed of a static site with the capabilities of a dynamic one.

Static assets (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, images) are cached aggressively. Dynamic features (contact forms, analytics, A/B testing) route through our application servers, which auto-scale based on demand.

The result: your site stays fast under any conditions, and interactive features work reliably without cold-start delays.

Uptime Monitoring

We monitor every published site continuously. Our system checks site availability from multiple geographic locations every 60 seconds. If an issue is detected:

• Our operations team is alerted immediately
• Automated recovery procedures kick in
• If the issue affects your site specifically, you'll be notified via email

Our current uptime across all sites: 99.97% over the trailing 12 months. The remaining 0.03% accounts for planned maintenance windows, which we schedule during low-traffic hours and communicate in advance.

Backups and Recovery

Every version of your site is stored and recoverable. When you make edits and publish changes, the previous version doesn't disappear — it's archived. If you need to roll back to an earlier version, it's a single click in your dashboard.

Site data is backed up continuously with point-in-time recovery capability. In the unlikely event of a catastrophic failure, we can restore your site to any point in the last 30 days.

How This Compares

If you were building this infrastructure yourself, you'd be looking at:

• A hosting provider ($5–$50/month)
• A CDN subscription ($20–$200/month for global coverage)
• SSL certificate management (free with Let's Encrypt, but you handle renewal)
• Uptime monitoring service ($10–$50/month)
• DDoS protection (starts at $200/month for serious coverage)
• Backup solution ($5–$20/month)

With WebriQA, all of this is included. Not as add-ons, not as premium tiers — included with every site. Because infrastructure shouldn't be a line item you negotiate. It should just work.

That's the philosophy behind everything we build: the technical details should be invisible to you, but rock-solid underneath. Your job is to run your business. Our job is to make sure your website never gets in the way. See it for yourself.