Some people appreciate a lot of notice before their domains expire, while others would rather not have quite so many reminders fill up their inbox. So warnings when there are 1, 15, and 60 days to go are all now optional. If you auto-renew domains, another new setting lets you decide whether to receive an email 7 days beforehand. Find all of this under Account > Preferences, and read more in the Knowledge Base.
We are now running our own gear for Cloud Container customers in California, rather than renting servers there. As well as boosting performance, this gives us direct responsibility for another slice of the Cloud Container platform. It’s also a step towards our goal of making Cloud Containers as standardised as possible around the world.
View any Cloud Container or Cloud Container Server through the SiteHost Control Panel, and you'll see a new metrics widget near the top of screen. Take a quick glance at CPU, memory, disk and load, or click the widget to open your full Metrics suite in a new tab. (This update removes the old "Graphs" tab.) Catch up on the launch of this new Metrics interface in the blog.
Closely monitor your Cloud Container servers and individual containers with a new, detailed Metrics dashboard. Graph out server load, CPU usage, RAM usage, database disk usage and more over periods from 5 minutes to a year (once that much data has been collected). Read the introductory blog article, get more detail from the Knowledge Base, or log into your SiteHost Control Panel and open any Cloud Container (or Cloud Container server) to find the new Metrics link.
Take a look at your list of Cloud Container SSH users and you'll notice that it's had a bit of a tidy-up. As well as visual changes, like switching the 'User Type' to an icon, we've added more details. Now you can see the keys that each user has, without having to click into each one. We've had a lot of requests for this update so we're stoked to deliver it.
If you manage DNS Zones via the SiteHost Control Panel, DNS changes will now show under Account > Activity Logs. There's a full run-down of DNS management in the Knowledge Base.
Last month we started acting as the registrar, rather than just an onseller, when you register new .com or .org domains. Today we've added in renewals, but left you in control. If you want to cut out the reseller, you can swap your domain's registrar to us when you renewing your domain(s). Read three reasons why this is a good idea in the blog. This option will apply to a growing list of TLDs over time.
Got a lot of NZ domains with another registrar? You can now transfer them all to us in one fell swoop. If convenience has been putting off your switch, now is a good time! The Knowledge Base explains how it works.
When you view your list of Cloud Container backups, you'll now see what image the container was running at the time. If you want to restore a backup that was taken before the image was upgraded or changed, we recommend changing the image back before restoring. See how to restore a Cloud Container backup in the Knowledge Base.
If we manage and monitor your Cloud Containers, there's a new "Production Mode" setting within their environment variables. If this setting is off, we'll know that the container isn't production-ready and we won't monitor the website. When it's on, so is our round-the-clock monitoring.