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How InfoEmu is organized

This page explains the concepts the rest of the documentation builds on. You don’t need it to get started, but it makes everything else click.

InfoEmu is a toolbox for your web presence

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InfoEmu is a managed cloud for the pieces most projects need on the web:

  • Community forum — a full-featured, managed discussion forum.
  • Static sites & docs — hosting for anything you build with a static site generator, plus a docs/knowledge-base format like this site.
  • APIs everywhere — deploys, community, content, and support are all plain HTTP with scoped tokens, so you (or an AI agent) can automate them.

You activate the tools you want and manage them from one place. You don’t run servers, patch software, or configure TLS by hand — that is what “managed” means here.

Accounts, workspaces, and tools

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There are three levels worth knowing:

  • Account — your login (email + password). One person, one account.
  • Workspace — the thing that owns your tools and carries one subscription and one bill. Most customers have exactly one workspace.
  • Tool instance — a single running tool inside your workspace: one forum, one docs site, one static site. A workspace can hold several.

You manage all of this from the console (your dashboard) at portal.infoemu.com.

Every tool gets a subdomain

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When a tool finishes provisioning it is reachable at a subdomain of InfoEmu, shaped like something.infoemu.com, served over HTTPS with a certificate we issue for you. You can attach your own domain on top afterwards — see Add a custom domain.

What “provisioning” means

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When you buy or add a tool, InfoEmu builds a dedicated stack for it: its own container(s) and, where relevant, its own database. Nothing is shared between customers (identity is the one deliberate exception — see below). This is why:

  • A restore, export, or deletion affects only your data.
  • A security fix or a noisy neighbour has a blast radius of one customer.

Provisioning is automatic and usually completes within a couple of minutes. Your console shows a live status for each tool as it moves from pending to ready.

One login across your tools

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Your workspace has a single identity realm. Tools that support single sign-on (the forum does) can log you in with your workspace account. This capability is rolling out across the toolbox; where a tool isn’t wired to SSO yet, it has its own login.

Regions

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InfoEmu runs in Europe today. A United States region is on the way and appears in the sign-up flow marked coming soon. (Note: identity data is stored in the EU regardless of the region you pick.)

Where the boundaries are

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A few things are handled for you by the InfoEmu operator rather than being self-service:

  • Daily backups and restores of your data.
  • TLS certificate issuance and renewal.
  • Delivery of the one-time Self-Hosted license (see Plans & pricing).

Everything else — creating tools, deploying sites, adding domains, minting tokens, managing your forum, changing your subscription — you do yourself in the console or over the API.

Next steps

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