runtimes
PHP 8.5 is the default and has the pipe operator. PHP 8.4 remains the conservative choice. PHP 8.2 goes end of life in December and stops starting in January.
Managed hosting for prototypes, side projects and whatever landed on main overnight. One image on every plan, a shell on every plan, and a machine at the end of it.
Platform
The versions running today, not the ones on a roadmap.
PHP 8.5 is the default and has the pipe operator. PHP 8.4 remains the conservative choice. PHP 8.2 goes end of life in December and stops starting in January.
Python 3.14 with free-threading, supported rather than tolerated. uv is the default installer. pip is still installed, still works, and we have stopped bringing it up.
PostgreSQL 18 with pgvector, MariaDB 12, MySQL 8.4 LTS and Valkey. We have never removed a database engine from this list, only stopped defaulting to one.
cPanel & WHM, Plesk Obsidian and DirectAdmin. cPanel raised its licence again in January, as it has in every January we have been a licensee.
ACME automation on everything. Maximum certificate lifetime dropped to 200 days on 15 March. Six-day certificates are available, and are issued mostly to accounts that asked twice.
REST, webhooks and SSE. The panel, the REST API and the MCP server expose the same operations, in that order of age.
Network and access
Uptime
99.99%
Network uptime, measured at our edge and published monthly whether or not it was met. The measurement has not changed since 2012, which is why the archive is comparable and occasionally unflattering.
Shell
$ ssh
Every plan includes a shell. Most accounts never open one; the ones that do are usually an agent, which was not the constituency we had in mind.
Estate
corvus is emulated. The original hardware left the building in 2004, the hostname still resolves, the nightly boot check still passes, and we have stopped putting it on the roadmap.
Everything else is in fra1, iad1, sin1 or lhr1, on the same image, on hardware bought this decade.
human madeDrawn from the photograph by the engineer who racked it. The illustration on this page was not generated.
Comparison
| slophost | Angelfire | HubPages | Skype | Newfold legacy brands | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hosting new projects | yes | — | — | — | — |
| Shell on every plan | yes | — | — | — | — |
| PostgreSQL 18 with pgvector | yes | — | — | — | — |
| HTTP/3, hybrid post-quantum TLS | yes | — | — | — | — |
| Machine-readable spec at llms.txt | yes | — | — | — | — |
Skype closed in May last year and stays in the table, because removing a column requires a decision. Angelfire has been in it since 1997 and has never required one.
Changelog