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11/25/24 •

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Firmon is a platform for building online education businesses, offering custom page creation without compromising performance. It provides full access to website customization using technologies like Next.js and integrates with WordPress for no-code page building, resulting in fast, secure, and SEO-friendly websites.

Firmon platform

• 00:00:47 Firmon is a platform for building online education businesses, such as selling courses, ebooks, and digital products, while maintaining brand control and ownership of data and analytics. It offers pre-built features for course creation, pricing, multiple currencies, and more, all accessible through a custom-built platform.

Custom Pages

• 00:00:35 Firmon's custom pages allow users to create unique website designs without sacrificing performance. The platform enables the use of Next.js and other frameworks to build websites and host them while maintaining essential functionalities like course infrastructure and analytics.

Website Serving

• 00:03:31 Firmon uses a combination of Cloudflare, Next.js, and static rendering to serve website pages efficiently. The platform handles requests through Cloudflare and utilizes Next.js to serve static content, ensuring fast loading times and a streamlined user experience.

Static Asset Hosting

• 00:04:40 Firmon utilizes object storage, like AWS S3, to host static assets like CSS and images, and provides a custom CDN prefix URL for these assets. This architecture ensures website performance and avoids conflicts with local development environments while allowing the use of modern frameworks like Next.js.

WordPress Integration

• 00:09:45 Firmon seamlessly integrates with WordPress, allowing users to leverage its drag-and-drop page builders and various plugins for no-code website design. The platform automatically exports static versions of WordPress pages and synchronizes them with the main Firmon website, resulting in fast and secure pages while maintaining the functionalities of WordPress.