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.
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.
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.
In your list of server backups, a new option to 'Clone' each backup has appeared. As the name suggests, this creates a new server based on the backup that you select. Handy if you want to retrieve old files without overwriting the live server, or as a "most of the way there" starting point for a new server. Read about Server Cloning in the KB.
As explained in the blog, there was a time when we applied monitoring alerts to all Cloud Containers, even unmanaged ones, so we could keep a close eye on the platform. That's no longer necessary, so we're taking this internal monitoring off unmanaged Cloud Containers. Newer containers, managed servers, and alerts and monitoring that you have set up for yourself are all unaffected. As always you can add your own monitoring or add Server Management today.
MariaDB 11.8 is now available as an integrated database option for Cloud Containers. You can select it as a database host directly from the Add Databases page, giving you access to the latest features and improvements in MariaDB.
The SiteHost Dockerhub account now contains public versions of our latest PHP web images, integrated database images, and our pma image. Each one matches a Cloud Container image, with all the essential files baked in. The blog has more news and the Knowledge Base explains how to use these images to develop websites in a local environment that matches production Cloud Containers as closely as possible.