Managed DNS and WordPress are here!
đ It feels like itâs been months since we sent out the first wave of signup invites but itâs only been 3 weeks! Weâve been super-busy in that time, squashing bugs and onboarding new customers all while working on new features to round out the service.
Read on for whatâs new!
đ„ Managed DNS!
You can now point your domain to our name servers and weâll set your A records automatically when you attach your domains to sites.
You can also manually add other DNS record types that you may need, such as CNAME, MX, SRV, and others.
Our DNS setup is slightly different than the ones you may have used in the past. We decided to build regionality into our setup from the beginning. Each region that we have servers in has its own set of name servers so that your audience gets faster response times when doing DNS queries for your domain.
Youâll want to point your domainâs name servers to the name servers in the region closest to your audience. You can find out more about how to set this up in our help docs for DNS records.
đ„ WordPress!
Youâve said it loud and clear, you want a WordPress installer. Itâs here! You can now install WordPress from the control panel. You can also tune your PHP-FPM settings for your specific use cases by following our WordPress docs. Since our PHP-FPM configuration uses PHP 7.3 your WordPress web site should see a nice speed improvement if youâre coming from from PHP 5.x.
Whatâs coming next?
đ Letâs Encrypt!
With DNS finished and installers starting to roll out weâre focusing on the second most-requested feature: automated Letâs Encrypt certificates! It should be ready within the next couple of weeks. Until then, you have the option of issuing LE certificates manually with certbot.
đ§ Email!
After WordPress and Letâs Encrypt email has constantly been on the feature request list. Weâre still working on it and it should still ship in the next month or so. DNS and TLS certificates are part of the infrastructure required to have a smoothly functioning email service. Once both of those things are done the work on email will go much faster.
âïž More Installers!
The Python/uWSGI installer will ship sometime late this week or early next week (May 23 – May 27). Django, Flask, and other installers will come shortly after that.
đ Control Panel API!
Our control panel API is mostly complete and weâre already using it in our installers. Weâve got a few more endpoints to implement and a bunch of docs to tighten up and then weâll unleash it on the world!
đź And after that?
We’ll be introducing other hosting plans such as managed VPS and managed dedicated bare-metal servers as well as pricing for shared hosting add-ons such as private IP addresses.
Weâll have a reasonably complete hosting service when all of the above is done but weâre not going to stop there. Weâre always kicking around ideas to make the service better and thatâs where YOU come in!
Whatâs on your hosting wish list? Let us know!