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.
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 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.
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.
We’ve improved the underlying logic and caching behind the forms you use when creating Cloud Containers and selecting images. This optimised forms now load and perform faster, making things quicker and smoother for you.
View a Cloud Container in the Control Panel and you'll see more detailed information about container maintenance in the Manage tab, depending on whether your server is managed or unmanaged, and the type of container you're looking at. Service containers are excluded from the automatic patching routines that apply to managed servers.
Stop worrying about the encoding of environment variables. Next time you add or update a variable, whatever you enter into the Variable contents field is exactly what will be stored. Also, if you want to delete a variable via the API you now need to explicitly delete them, rather than just provide a blank value. Read up on environment variables in the KB.