Qwen3.8-27B has superseded Qwen 3.6-27B as a same-model-family replacement on our AI Platform. Extensive validation tests showed improved performance across the board, as well as reduced token usage. Like every model we make available, we're hosting it in New Zealand, on our own servers, with zero data retention. Read more about using our AI Platform in the Knowledge Base.
Anyone with Managed Cloud Containers can now enable or disable Traffic Protection for individual Containers. You can find the Traffic Protection toggle on the Containers Settings screen in the Control Panel. Traffic Protection can also be toggled on/off at a server level. By default, Traffic Protection is on. As always, you can add Server Management today. Read more about our Traffic Protection work on the blog.
We’ve given our Dedicated Server plans a significant refresh, including a new entry-level server at our lowest price point in a while. You can read all about the new plans and our work to supply these builds on the blog.
To better support server-side tracking for Google Tag Manager, we’ve made an unmodified instance of Google’s GTM Docker image available as a pre-built image on Cloud Containers. As the blog explains, this idea came straight from a SiteHost customer.
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'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.
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.