60 seconds. That was the goal. Click a button, get a running OpenClaw instance.
What I actually built:
- A pool of pre-booted VPS instances sitting idle, waiting to be claimed
- A container commit system so user changes survive restarts
- Dynamic routing through Redis
- Four-layer security model
- All running from one Rails app. By myself. In about a week.
The domain registered on February 5th. This post went up six days later.
I wrote up the full technical deep dive: snapshot-based provisioning, prewarmed VPS pools, the security model for running untrusted Docker containers as root.
https://clawhosters.com/blog/posts/how-i-built-60-second-vps-provisioning
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