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slophost
Managed hosting since 1996

The best place to host the thing you keep meaning to launch.

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.

A hosting control panel showing a certificate that renews itself Secure slophost.dev DOMAINS · SSL/TLS AutoSSL certificate renews itself PHP 7.1 7.2 available HTTP/2 on TRAFFIC Let’s Encrypt included

Deploy the way you already do

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.

Certificates stop being a project

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.

Capacity you can plan

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.

What is actually on the machines

Every plan runs the same stack. These are the versions in production this quarter, not the ones on the road map.

Web
nginx 1.12 · HTTP/2 LiteSpeed 5.2 · LSCache QUIC, early Apache 2.4 · mod_http2 Varnish
Languages
PHP 7.1, default PHP 7.2 from 30 November PHP 5.6, end of life Node 8 LTS
Data
MySQL 5.7 MariaDB 10.2 Redis
Panel
cPanel & WHM 66 / 68 AutoSSL Plesk Onyx 17.5
Platform
CloudLinux 7 HardenedPHP Imunify360

Imunify360 patches the kernel without taking the machine down. The largest breach of the year was a patch that had been available since March.

Enterprise pilot

SOAP and WSDL remain available to the enterprise pilot, which is now old enough that its own documentation describes it as legacy.

Against the alternatives

Ownership correct as at October 2017.
  Slophost Datapipe Cogeco Peer 1 Joyent public cloud
Free auto-renewing certificates Yes
cPanel or Plesk included YesOn requestOn 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.