Release Notes


03 September 2025

Improved
  • Clarity around managed servers, maintenance, and service containers

    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.

15 August 2025

Improved
  • Environment variables - easier to add & update, harder to accidentally delete

    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.

15 July 2025

Improved
  • Unicode characters in Cloud Container labels

    Cloud Container labels can now include unicode characters, which means that macrons and other diacritics are supported. In situations like containers labelled with internationalised domain names (IDNs), this keeps things properly aligned.

27 June 2025

Improved
  • Cloning comes to custom Cloud Container images

    Container cloning has been a feature of managed Cloud Containers for years, but until now it wasn't available for custom images. There are now no restrictions on the containers you can duplicate, so long as your Cloud Containers are managed by us. The next step, overwriting custom containers, remains a work in progress. Read about Container cloning on the Knowledge Base.

10 June 2025

Improved
  • Larger storage allocations for new Cloud Container servers

    Add a new Cloud Container server (either standard or High Performance) and you'll be allocated 5-15GB more storage than before. That's because, as the blog explains, some files and data that wouldn't have counted against your limit in the past will now be stored where they belong. We are also in the progress of bringing every other Cloud Container server into line with the new plans.

07 May 2025

Improved
  • Cloud Container fleet now running Ubuntu 24.04

    Also known as Noble Numbat, Ubuntu 24.04 is the latest long-term support (LTS) release. This upgrade, which applies to every Cloud Container server, guarantees standard OS support through to 2029. It also boasts the new 6.8 Linux kernel, security improvements (bye-bye TLS 1.0, 1.1 and DTLS 1.0), an updated Docker package, a solution to the 2038 problem, and a number of other improvements.

27 February 2025

New
  • Automated two-step response to low disk space

    If your available storage on your Cloud Container server drops to 10% or 5GB (whichever is lower), a warning email is now triggered. This starts a 3-hour window for you to free up space or add storage. After that time, we'll treat a further drop to 5% or 2.5GB as a signal to permanently add 5GB. As the Knowledgebase explains, this change effectively automates a manual process.

24 January 2025

New
  • Ready-to-go Silverstripe image

    Get Silverstripe running on Cloud Containers faster than ever with our new prebuilt Silverstripe + PHP 8.3 image. When you're creating the container, just look under 'Application Image'. This quick option is ideal for test or prototype instances of Silverstripe. There's more about working with SilverStripe Containers in the Knowledge Base.

03 September 2024

New
  • High Performance Cloud Containers launched

    New, faster Cloud Containers servers. High Performance Cloud Containers are built on fast modern hardware (including AMD Ryzen 9 CPUs and NVMe storage) and a slick new virtualisation layer inspired by our High Performance Virtual Servers. Look for "Performance Plans" when selecting your next Cloud Containers server.

26 July 2024

Improved
  • Californian Cloud Containers on SiteHost hardware

    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.

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