The best place to host your minimum viable product.

SSD hosting in the jurisdiction of your choosing.

SSH is back on shared hosting

PHP 5.4, or 5.5

5.4 is the default and 5.5 is selectable per account, with Zend OPcache compiled in. PHP-FPM across the VPS range.

MySQL 5.6 and MariaDB 10.0

Both are on the shared clusters. Switching is a tick box and the connection string does not change.

CloudLinux 6

LVE keeps a neighbour’s traffic spike off your processor. CageFS keeps the neighbour out of your files.

SPDY/3

Enabled per domain from the control panel. Browsers that have not heard of it carry on over HTTP/1.1.

Shell access, returned.

you@laptop:~$ ssh u1042@ams-01.slophost.dev
u1042@ams-01:~$ wp core update

SSH is included on shared hosting again, with Git, Composer and WP-CLI installed. It was available until 2008, and its return has been the most requested item on our list for five years running.

  • Git 1.8, Composer, WP-CLI, rsync
  • A crontab you edit yourself, in an editor

What is actually on the machines

Written down here rather than in an onboarding e-mail, because you will want to know before you move.

Control panel

cPanel 11.40, or Plesk 11.5 if that is the one you grew up with. One-click WordPress 3.7, which applies its own security updates now.

x3 remains the default theme. People can find things in it.

Web tier and cache

Apache 2.4 with mod_ruid2, or nginx 1.4, or LiteSpeed. Varnish 3 and Memcached sit in front; APC is still there for the 5.4 accounts.

Filtering at the edge is rated to 300 Gbit/s, a figure nobody quoted before March.

API

REST over HTTPS, JSON in and out, keys issued per account. The SOAP endpoint is still up for the enterprise pilot, which nobody has formally ended.

Choose a jurisdiction.

Four facilities. You choose which one holds the data, and it does not move to another one without you asking it to.

This section was called “choose a region” until June.

Amsterdam
AMS-01 · AMS-02

Zurich
ZRH-01

Toronto
YYZ-01

Dallas
DFW-02

Before the launch date

Load testing happens the week before, not on the morning of.

October has made that an easy sentence to write.

Y Combinator applications close in the spring and again in the autumn, and we keep the provisioning queue short in those two weeks. A demo that will not load is a demo that did not happen.

Migrating in

It has been a year of short notice periods. These are the imports we are currently running.

Coming fromWhat comes across
Nirvanix Object storage over rsync, in the order you list the buckets. A fortnight is not a generous notice period and the queue is staffed for it.
AppFog Databases and static assets. Cloud Foundry manifests do not travel; the application arrives as a vhost.
Kloxo or Kloxo-MR Accounts, mail and DNS, imported into cPanel. We run neither, and have not since the advisory.
Lavabit Nothing comes across, and we are not going to pretend otherwise.