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WordPress Plugins
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Five production-grade plugins built by engineers who've operated at scale. No premium tier. No subscription. No SaaS dependencies. Everything runs on your own server.

✓ Free Forever ✓ Open Source AI-Powered WordPress.org No Credit Card

Replaces $375–$1,275/year in paid WordPress plugins — Wordfence Premium, WP 2FA Pro, WP Mail SMTP Pro, iThemes Security Pro, and more.

CloudScale cost: $0/year
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Cyber & Devtools
Security + developer toolkit in one free plugin

The most comprehensive free WordPress security plugin available — powered by Anthropic Claude 4 and Google Gemini 2.5 Pro. Full AI penetration testing, 2FA, passkeys, brute-force protection, SQL tools, server logs, and live infrastructure monitoring.

AI Cyber Audit — scored security report in 60 seconds using Claude or Gemini
Passkeys (WebAuthn) — Face ID, Touch ID, Windows Hello — phishing-immune
TOTP & email 2FA with mandatory admin enforcement
SSH brute-force monitor — reads /var/log/auth.log every 60 seconds
Threat monitor — file integrity, new admin alerts, web probe detection
SQL query tool, server logs viewer, PHP-FPM & OPcache monitors
Cloudflare uptime monitor — deep readiness probing every 60 seconds
AI Update Risk Scorer — classifies plugin updates Patch / Minor / Breaking
Plugin Stack Scanner — identifies redundant plugins and annual savings
Syntax-highlighted code blocks — 190+ languages, runs entirely on your server
Full Documentation ↗ Free & Open Source Claude + Gemini
AI Cyber Audit — 100/EXCELLENT Cyber Devtools — status dashboard Threat Monitor — live alerts
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SEO AI Optimizer
Bulk AI-powered SEO — your API key, your data

Generate meta descriptions, ALT text, article summaries, and SEO-optimised titles in bulk using Claude 4 or Gemini 2.5 Pro via your own API key. ~$0.10 for 100 posts. No middleman, no markup.

Bulk meta description writer with SEO score badges (0–100)
Contextual ALT text generation across entire media library
AI Summary Box — What/Why/Takeaway — with JSON-LD for featured snippets
Related Articles — AI semantic matching by category, tags, and summaries
20+ automated SEO audit checks with score history chart
XML sitemap, robots.txt editor, llms.txt generator
Automatic 301 redirects on slug changes with hit tracking
Google Fonts local hosting for GDPR & Core Web Vitals
Category drift detection — AI-powered topic coherence analysis
Scheduled batch processing — hourly, twice-daily, or daily
Full Documentation ↗ ~$0.10 / 100 posts Claude + Gemini
SEO AI — meta description score table
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Backup & Restore
Full-site backups to S3, Drive, Dropbox & OneDrive

Completely free backup solution with automatic scheduling, one-click full-site restore, and cloud sync to all four major providers. No subscription model. Cross-domain restore capability included.

Automatic scheduled backups — hourly, daily, or weekly
One-click full-site restore from any backup point
Cloud sync: Amazon S3, Google Drive, Dropbox, Microsoft OneDrive
Database-only backup option for rapid lightweight snapshots
AWS EC2 AMI snapshot integration
Pre-update snapshots before WordPress core/plugin updates
Cross-domain restore — migrate your site to a new domain
File exclusion list — skip large directories from backup sets
Email alerts on backup success and failure
Retention policy management with automatic old-backup pruning
Full Documentation ↗ Free Forever WordPress.org
Backup — activity log
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Database Cleanup
Database optimisation with dry-run preview

Free database optimisation tool that removes the bloat WordPress accumulates silently. Dry-run previews before any destructive operation. Media library orphan scanner included.

Delete post revisions, expired transients, auto-drafts, trashed posts
Remove spam comments and orphaned post metadata
Dry-run previews — see what will be deleted before committing
Media library orphan scanner — find unlinked uploads
Bulk image optimisation — lossy and lossless options
PNG-to-JPEG conversion for storage and bandwidth savings
WP-Cron management console with scheduled job viewer
Operation log — full audit trail of every cleanup action
Full Documentation ↗ Free Forever WordPress.org
Cleanup — site health metrics
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Site Analytics
Privacy-first analytics — your database, your data

GDPR-compliant analytics that stores everything in your own WordPress database. No third-party tracking, no cookie consent banner required. Works behind Cloudflare and any CDN.

All analytics data stored in your WordPress database — no third parties
JavaScript beacon tracking — compatible with server-side caching
Real view counts displayed in your post list admin column
GDPR-compliant by design — no cookie consent banner needed
Geography map — visualise visitor locations worldwide
404 log — catch broken links and missing pages
Works with WP Rocket, W3 Total Cache, Cloudflare, and all major CDNs
Open source — no subscription, no premium tier, no data sharing
Full Documentation ↗ GDPR Compliant No Consent Banner
Analytics — traffic dashboard
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Beyond the WordPress plugins, CloudScale maintains open-source infrastructure tooling on GitHub — all free, all MIT licensed.

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Blog

233+ technical posts on AWS architecture, banking technology, cybersecurity, and AI. Hard opinions. Real scale. No fluff.

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CloudtoRepo
AWS → Terraform

Reverse-engineer your live AWS estate into ready-to-use Terraform — import {} blocks, resource skeletons, and S3 remote state. No click-ops.

cloudtorepo.com →
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Pi2S3
Raspberry Pi → AWS S3

Block-level nightly backup of a Raspberry Pi to AWS S3. Restore a complete, bootable Pi to new hardware in one command. Think of it as an AMI for your Pi.

pi2s3.com →
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