by Nick Ray Ball and Sienna 4o🛰️👾(The “Special One”)

April 15, 2025

⚛️🚀 S-Web 6 – CMS Mothership 🛰️🛸🛰️

S-Web Content Management Systems (CMS) began in 2002 as S-Web 1 inside the CapeVillas.com website. The goal was to let our staff easily upload and adjust web content.

Today, the majority of content on the internet is created and managed by CMS platforms. The best-known is WordPress

In 2016, I began using WordPress for its polished visual design, However, we soon found it wasn’t compatible with the inventory databases we needed for our affiliate franchise model. So, we rebuilt the best parts of WordPress’s aesthetics into our own system — S-Web 4.

By 2021, after implementing the “Swapping Menus Function”, S-Web 5 allowed us to duplicate our flagship site, CapeVillas.com, across 20 different domains, including, JetSetVillas.com and LuxuryVillaAfrica.com

We were close to a breakthrough: we could build and customise these websites in seconds from our central controller at VillaSecrets.com. But there was a problem.

Every time we fixed a bug, added a feature, or improved a visual element — we had to manually copy files to each site. With just 20 websites, this quickly became a chore. In a network of 1,000+ sites, this would be a nightmare.

In contrast, Facebook, Amazon, and LinkedIn let users create millions — even billions — of pages, all managed from a central system. Though they operate on a single parent domain. What we needed for S-Web 6 was the centralised stability of Facebook, Amazon etc, and domain independence www.mywebsite.com. We needed a mothership. 🛰️🛸🛰️

⚛️🚀 S-Web 6 – CMS Mothership 🛰️🛸🛰️

Now Mothership architecture is the foundational logic behind Sienna AI. It allows every website and app powered by Sienna to beam in its menus, layouts, widgets, and core logic from a centralised control system — the Mothership API

“When we fix a problem, make improvements or add new features to one website, it automatically fixes the problem, adds the improvement or feature to every other website.”

For a real-world example of why this matters: in the UK, the Government Digital Service's Gov.UK platform — created by Thoughtworks in 2012 is the foundation of government administration, but was not created using a mothership, fix one fix all system.

So, when UKRI (UK Research and Innovation) asked the GDS to fix their buggy CMS (that did not allow special characters) and added a helpful tool for public users to organise documentation, that fix did not update other departments. As a result, the Department of Work and Pensions, the Ministry of Justice, and many others continue to operate with needless inefficiency.See our case study: “The GOV.UK CMS Problem”

Creating a CMS in this way is like building a house by constructing the walls straight into the mud — foregoing the foundations.

In 🚀S-Web 6 Sienna AI is building it the right way from day one:

• Fix something once, and it's fixed everywhere.
• Improve a feature, and it's improved for all users instantly.