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# Probably The Fastest Website Bootstrap I’ve Ever Done—TheRobExperiment
- URL: https://therobexperiment.com/blog/probably-the-fastest-website-bootstrap-ive-ever-done-therobexperiment/
- Published: 2020-11-23T04:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-25T00:22:00.000Z
- Description: I probably broke my own record on this new WordPress setup piece that combines a "close-enough" writing experience as Medium, yet have full ownership on all my content, as well as how I can fully design my website!
- Author: TheRobExperiment
- Tags: WordPress, WordPress-Blog, Technology, Barebone, CloudFlare, InMotion Hosting, NameCheap, Websites, Blogs, Blogging, #Import 2026-08-19 13:32

## Breaking My Re-Cycle

As with all projects and experiments, there is more often than not the “*Fear of When It Will Get Completed*” that will stop most individuals in their tracks from executing and just continue either: 

1. *Research more on what is the next best plan*,
2. *Brainstorm on how to best execute the best plan*, or
3. *The project is not worth starting at all and let’s move to the next new idea*.

I myself have been guilty of this process of **re-cycling** from (1) to (3) in more recent years that I would like to break that cycle and improve my situation by starting with *something small*… Something small like *THEROBEXPERIMENT*.

## Something Small… Simple… Fast…

After many years of building websites, primarily either just raw code or [WordPress](https://wordpress.org/?ref=therobexperiment.com), I just realised I haven’t built something that is minimal, clean and fast. I wanted something that looks simple yet still maintains the efficiencies, security and low maintenance system I have grown used to over the years.

Though I have researched quite widely and came across a few new systems like [Ghost](https://ghost.org/?ref=therobexperiment.com), or even new technologies like Headless CMS routed through [Netlify](https://www.netlify.com/?ref=therobexperiment.com), I was ultimately convinced that I should build fast with what I already knew, so that I can effectively build a new website from the ground up and break some new personal records!

My last record setup was **roughly 8-days straight**, re-designing and re-building [RobertChai.com](https://robertchai.com/?ref=therobexperiment.com) and manually sorting out the *knicks* on existing content to ensure content-legacy continuation.

### New Personal Best!

**All it took was just 3-days**! A definite new personal best! It was key to remind myself of just cutting away over-the-top animations or unnecessary plugins. Just keep the key items that were essential.

From bare-logo-creation, domain-routing, email setups, server-setups, plugin-consolidations, templating-setups, to the site-testings and other content-tweaks, this 3-day 16-hour-days marathon run to set this up over a short weekend was amazingly satisfactory once I got *THEROBEXPERIMENT*‘s [very first post](https://therobexperiment.com/2020/why-another-therobexperiment-website/) published!

[![Screen capture as of therobexperiment.com 2020-11-23](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sgrobert/ghost-therobexperiment-assets/main/2021/04/therobexperiment-2020-11-23-14_20_29.jpg)](https://therobexperiment.com/)

Screen capture as of [therobexperiment.com](https://therobexperiment.com/) 2020-11-23

### Brief Barebone Breakdown

Over the years, there were many evolving new efficient and effective barebone setups out there. However, this *baseline setup* is the summary of my last 12-years of personal trial-and-error. Not expect any super-surges in readership for this new website, I have built *THEROBEXPERIMENT* based on the following:

1. [**NameCheap**](https://go.therobexperiment.com/namecheap?ref=therobexperiment.com)—Domain Registrar—A clearly simple domain name management platform that simplifies the user experience while not attempting to outsell other unnecessary services till the checkout process.
2. [**Cloudflare**](https://www.cloudflare.com/?ref=therobexperiment.com)*—DDoS Protection + DNS routing + CDN Caching—*Started using them in 2011 and they have been a true godsend providing a very user-friendly frontline routing management system as compared to most backend service providers. Their complementary DDoS Protection + CDN Caching services really improve the user-experience; The “*constantly-online*” status is maintained while providing a notification screen if your website goes down.
3. [**DigitalOcean**](https://go.therobexperiment.com/digitalocean?ref=therobexperiment.com)—*CPanel + Hosting Services*—Best-value for the cheap! You can now sign up and get US$100 worth of free-spending credits for 60-days if you use the following [link here](https://go.therobexperiment.com/digitalocean?ref=therobexperiment.com). This hosting service is more developer-friendly. It is quite technical to get things moving along here, but they are fast, cheap, and good… *Just not-so-easy to set things up*.  
    
—OR—  
  
**InMotion Hosting**—*CPanel + Hosting Services*—Great service, a good alternative though they are not often the cheapest as compared to the five other hosting platforms I have previously used. Essentially, they have recently revamped their plans recently in Oct 2020 but overall, I just loved the service quality they provide here when dealing with server-side issues. More importantly, their core services help to pre-scan content to keep potential viruses / malware off the server files as long as you did not inject them yourself.