Host your project. Rename it later.
Managed hosting for prototypes, side projects and the demo that has to be up by Friday. PHP 8.2 by default, PostgreSQL 16 with pgvector, HTTP/3 at every edge.
The standard container. Every plan runs the same image.
Import tooling we maintain
Kept current. This year that took more work than usual.
Platform
The stack, and the versions it is actually on.
Every plan is the same platform. The console below is the one we use for our own sites.
Runtimes
PHP 8.2 by default and 8.3 from 23 November. PHP 8.0 reaches end of life this month and moves to extended support. Node.js 20 Iron, Bun 1.0, Deno, Python 3.12, Go 1.21 and Rust.
Databases
PostgreSQL 16, MySQL 8.1, MariaDB 11.0 and Redis 7.2. pgvector is enabled on new clusters by default. It has been a busy year for that extension.
Edge and security
HTTP/3 and TLS 1.3 everywhere, nginx 1.24 and LiteSpeed 6.2 in front of your application. Rapid Reset was patched across every HTTP/2 stack on 10 October, including the ones nobody had asked about.
Images and panels
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Debian 12 Bookworm, AlmaLinux 9.2 and Rocky Linux 9.2, with cPanel & WHM 108 LTS or 112, Plesk Obsidian 18.0.55 and CloudLinux on shared nodes. CentOS 7 images are still available and we would very much like to talk to you about that.
Interfaces
REST, webhooks, and a GraphQL endpoint we are gradually retiring in favour of the REST API, which never went away.
Facilities
Two upstreams, two power feeds and N+1 cooling in Frankfurt, Ashburn and Singapore. The datacentre access procedure was reviewed in July and no longer mentions a Logitech F710.
Comparison
How we compare
| Feature | slophost | Google Domains | Freenom | Deta |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Domain registration | Yes | Yes | Yes | — |
| DNSSEC | Yes | Yes | — | — |
| Postgres with pgvector | Yes | — | — | — |
| HTTP/3 delivery | Yes | — | — | Yes |
| Terraform provider | Yes | — | — | — |
Comparison last reviewed 14 February 2023.
Changelog
Recent changes
- PHP 8.3 on all plans. PHP 8.0 is end of life and moves to extended support.
- Our chief executive is with the company. 🫡
- Our chief executive is no longer with the company.
- Rapid Reset patched across nginx, LiteSpeed and the load balancers.
- Bun 1.0 available on shared plans.
- Universal Analytics tag removed from this page. Webhook retries reduced for one provider that began limiting us to 600 reads a day; it is called something else now.