Perfect for development or test environments, or for running small projects away from your production environment, you can now stand up a Development Virtual Server for only $7.50 a month. They're not production-ready though, so read all about Development Virtual Servers before you get started.
The 'Add Service' screen was looking overloaded even before we added a new category of Virtual Servers today. This, plus a limitation that stopped the AI Platform from appearing, made it time for a redesign. Now you'll see more options, sensibly grouped and presented in a more comfortable display.
We've reworked the Databases tab in the Containers page of the Control Panel to provide more context and Container-focused options. You can now filter by where the databases back up to and get the database hostname on the page.
You can now view logs for any Cloud Container or Cloud Container Server alongside all your other data in the metrics interface. Filter by server, by Container, and by any timespan from the last five minutes to the three months. We've also added a lot more visibility into request rates, HTTP status codes, and IPs accessing your sites. Catch up on all the updates to the metrics interface in the blog.
We released v0.7.0 of GoSH, our Golang client library. It's a major expansion of API coverage, introducing more endpoints and functionality coverage, as well as fixing some bugs.
We've released version 2.0.0 of our Terraform Provider, making use of the updated GoSH package and SiteHost API v1.5. You'll get more reliable server provisioning, and properly restored job polling after server deletes or upgrades. The change locks the provider to SiteHost API v1.5, meaning the API version can no longer be changed.
We've launched our AI Platform. You can now access fast, private and cost-effective open-weight AI models hosted here in New Zealand. Offload your data workload without any data retention. Check out the Knowledge Base to learn how it works.
We've added a quick way to visualise your Cloud Container server's disk allocation in the Control Panel. Disk Usage Breakdown shows how much of your server disk space is used by files, docker images and databases.
Another boost to the Control Panel's performance, as well as security improvements and plenty of bug fixes.
We've made some tweaks to make the ABN/ACN validation process since we became an auDA accredited registrar, making .au domain registrations more painless.
Ubuntu's latest long-term support release, Resolute Raccoon, can now be provisioned on any new Linux Virtual Server or Virtual Dedicated Server. There's more about this distro in the blog.
We've enforced two-factor authentication on all accounts. If 2FA wasn't already enabled, you'll now be emailed a login confirmation code. Once you’re logged in you can upgrade to using an authenticator app instead. Account admins can control authentication frequency (from every login to monthly). See how to manage 2FA in the Knowledge Base, and read why we’ve made this change in the blog (TL;DR: too much phishing).