Managed Linux hosting with cPanel & WHM or Plesk Onyx, free certificates that renew themselves, and HTTP/2 on every domain. Deploy with Git, or with the FTP client you have had since university.
AutoSSL on every domain PHP 7.1 · nginx 1.12 · HTTP/2 Docker in the panel
New accounts peak the night before the Y Combinator deadline and are back to baseline by Thursday.
Plesk Onyx 17.5 ships Git, Docker and the WordPress Toolkit. cPanel & WHM 66 runs the shared fleet and 68 is on the new machines. Odin Automation accounts import without a rebuild.
AutoSSL issues and renews free Let’s Encrypt certificates for every domain and subdomain on the account. Wildcards are promised for January, and we will believe it in January.
Redis, Varnish and LiteSpeed 5.2 with LSCache sit in front of the origin, so a good week does not become an incident. In December a game about cats congested an entire blockchain, which is the year’s clearest lesson in capacity planning.
Every plan runs the same stack. These are the versions in production this quarter, not the ones on the road map.
Imunify360 patches the kernel without taking the machine down. The largest breach of the year was a patch that had been available since March.
SOAP and WSDL remain available to the enterprise pilot, which is now old enough that its own documentation describes it as legacy.
| Slophost | Datapipe | Cogeco Peer 1 | Joyent public cloud | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free auto-renewing certificates | Yes | — | — | — |
| cPanel or Plesk included | Yes | On request | On request | — |
| A plan small enough for one project | Yes | — | — | — |
| Independently owned | Yes | — | — | — |
99.99% network uptime on all plans. The additional nine cost more than the previous three combined and buys you forty-four fewer minutes a year.
Incident notices are plain text and go out before the fix rather than after. April was a reminder of how far a single photograph of a cheese sandwich can travel.