About — Hosting Accessories

I'm Josh Priddle, founder of Hosting Accessories LLC. I don't just work on systems at scale — I design and build them from scratch. Multi-tenant platforms, distributed billing systems, queue-driven provisioning infrastructure. From initial architecture through production and beyond.

I've done this across very different contexts — built startups from the ground up, been through the acquisition dance a few times, led engineering teams, and done SRE on one of the largest Rails applications on the internet. The common thread is taking an empty repo and turning it into production infrastructure that handles real traffic. Working in a large system is one thing. Architecting one from nothing is a different skill entirely.

I'm not a generalist. I go deep on hosting infrastructure, billing, and operations — the kind of systems where the architecture decisions you make on day one determine whether you're rewriting it in two years.

01 — // VALUES

1.

Build It Right the First Time

Comprehensive testing, static analysis, and code review are non-negotiable. Quality over speed.

2.

Security-First Mindset

Data isolation, authentication, payment security, and defensive coding are default — not afterthoughts.

3.

Explicit Over Clever

Clarity and maintainability over "clever" code. Strict typing, clean separation of concerns.

4.

Automate Everything

If it can be automated, it should be. Developer environment setup reduced from days to hours.

5.

Documentation Matters

API docs that developers actually want to use. Technical documentation as a first-class deliverable.

6.

Ship Working Software

From MVP to production. Rescuing behind-schedule projects and maintaining systems that real people depend on.

7.

Know When NOT to Abstract

Pragmatism over architectural purity. Three similar lines of code is better than a premature abstraction.

8.

Full-Stack Ownership

From Linux server hardening to frontend design — comfortable owning entire systems.

02 — // STACK

Backend

Ruby Rails Sinatra PHP Laravel Bash

Frontend

JavaScript Alpine.js Vue.js React Tailwind CSS Jekyll

Infrastructure

MySQL PostgreSQL Redis RabbitMQ AWS NGINX

DevOps

Linux Chef Docker Git GitHub Actions Capistrano

03 — // WORKING STYLE

Remote-first — 15+ years of distributed team experience.

Agile practitioner — Sprint planning, velocity tracking, retrospectives.

Mentor and collaborator — Onboarding developers, code reviews, technical guidance.

Direct communicator — Concise, focused on implementation over concepts.