Every time you save a configuration file, Ploi now automatically keeps a snapshot of the previous version. We store the last 3 versions per file, so you always have a safety net. You can preview any previous version directly in a modal, copy it to your clipboard, or restore it into the editor with a single click.

This works everywhere: the site-level NGINX editor, the server-level NGINX editor, and even when updating configs through the API. Each history entry tracks when it was saved and by whom, so you always know what changed and who changed it.

No more SSH-ing into your server to dig through backups. Just hit the History button, pick a version, and you're good to go.

Changelog

Added

• NGINX config version history for servers and sites

• Ability to email backup password if you've lost it (edit modal)

• Topbar navigation in panel

• Server grid view in server index

• Server list is now paginated

• Monitoring filter options to server index (has monitoring, no monitoring)

• Server provider icon is now shown on the server index list

• NPM security insights just like Composer CVE's

• 7 new AWS regions for server provisioning

• Rule type selection in firewall tab for load balancers

• DNS fallback is now set up when installing servers

• Automatically select SSL DNS provider when you only have one credential

• MariaDB 11.4 LTS support

• Laravel Pulse 1-click support

• Queue tab for applications, allowing you to spawn queues easily

• Support for markdown output for AI agents in our documentation: https://ploi.io/documentation/server/how-can-i-use-sftp.md

• New email template design

• Server name is now included in the site file backup failed email

• Allow setting the next backup time when modifying a backup

• Deploy started notification for all notification channels

• New suspended template

Improved

• S3 backups are now done with Rclone, other drivers will follow soon

• Uptime monitoring now includes an actual failure reason when errors occur

• Site cloning now also clones cronjobs and redirects properly

• Daemon command length has been increased from 200 to 500 characters

• System users modal: show site usage, async creation, delete loader

Fixed

• Bug in running scripts where a cache lock prevented the script from actually running

• Use proper site PHP version when running Statamic commands (php please)

• fastcgi_pass not updating when force-uninstalling a PHP version

• Repository edit form when switching to custom type

• Daemon log path now uses actual system_user instead of hardcoded ploi

• Site clone not creating system user on target server

• Site file backup validation failing for team members using owner's backup configuration

• Backup rotation only deleting one excess file per run

• Support multiple {RESTART_DAEMON} variables in deploy scripts

Removed

• ploi.dev testing domain as it caused SSL problems

CVE insights

Some of you might have noticed that we have a new insight that scans for common vulnerabilities and exposures.

This insight automatically scans the Composer packages across all your sites and checks them against known security vulnerabilities. If any of your dependencies have reported CVEs, you'll see them appear in your insights dashboard with details about the affected package, severity, and recommended actions.

How it works:         

• For newer servers, Ploi runs composer audit to check for known vulnerabilities

• For older servers (created before 2025), Ploi parses your composer.lock and checks packages against the PHP Security Advisories database

• Vulnerabilities are grouped by severity and displayed with direct links to more information

What you can do

• Review affected packages and their safe versions

• Update your dependencies to patch the vulnerabilities

• Mark insights as fixed once you've addressed them

This feature is available for Pro plans and higher. Head over to your server's Insights page to see if any of your applications need attention.

Server insight notifications

Also new, the notifications tab when you visit the insights in your server. In here, you can define the notifications you'd like to receive when new insights come in. You can create them per-server and per-priority type!

Fresh status page design

We also took the opportunity to create a fresh status page design and fixed some of the bugs that are present, including a dark-mode toggle for your users.

Changelog

• [Added] New status page design

• [Added] PostgreSQL 18 support

• [Added] PHP CLI version change available in API now: https://developers.ploi.io/php/switch-php-cli-version

• [Added] A proper payment retry system for whenever payments fail, we will try 3 times within a week and notify you each time a failure happens

• [Improved] Global server insights overview now uses a proper table with filters: https://ploi.io/panel/dashboard/insights

• [Improved] When installing a PHP version you now actually get proper UI feedback when installing

• [Refactored] Settings page in profile is streamlined with tabs now

• [Fixed] Issue when uninstalling PHP 8.5

• [Fixed] Issue where insights would duplicate itselfves, they now replace itself instead

• [Fixed] Issue when deleting a tenant and their SSL won’t be deleted, this is now forced properly

• [Fixed] Issue for duplicate cronjob creation for server monitoring

IPv6 support has arrived 🚨

IPv4 is running out and preparing for IPv6 is important. Not only did we add support for IPv6 but also hostnames! So now you can not only use an IPv4, IPv6 address but also a hostname like server.example.com 🔥

A new CLI has arrived 💻

Ploi CLI, bringing the full power of Ploi right to your terminal! Now you can manage your entire infrastructure without leaving your command line environment: https://github.com/ploi/cli

Ploi Core is now free ✌️

Ploi Core is now completely free, no purchase fee anymore. You will still need the Ploi Unlimited (https://ploi.io/pricing) subscription, but other than that you can now download this software for free at https://github.com/ploi/ploi-core

This change now makes it possible for others to contribute and make it an even better product 🔥

Server monitoring updates 💡

A lot has happened to our server monitoring feature, not only can Unlimited users go back to 30 days in history now but Pro users are also increased to 14 days retention!

Next to that we added: additional disks monitoring, network monitoring, revamped the charts and filters, and we added recovery notifications!

Teams update 🔥

We can safely say this was one of the biggest updates and migrations of Ploi this year. Servers now belong to teams instead of individual users, enabling better team collaboration and access control. This was a highly requested feature on our roadmap: https://roadmap.ploi.io/projects/7-bugs/items/467-team-member-does-not-have-access-to-all-features-you-need-a-paid-subscription

BIMI emails verified 🔋

Some of you might of noticed already, Ploi now sends their emails with a BIMI certificate. That means our emails will have a blue checkmark and our logo shows up in your inbox for most of the email providers. Ploi sends delicate emails, security is important. This allows you to see whether the email was really sent by us which increases security🔥

Wrapped 🎁

Did you already create your Ploi Wrapped for 2025? Over 800 Ploi users already did! Go check it out and get yours: https://ploi.io/panel/wrapped

Reflecting

It’s always good to reflect and see what we promised to deliver and actually delivered. When we take a look at the 2024 recap (https://ploi.io/news/recap-ploi-2024) these things we’d focus on:

• IPv6 support (Done ✅)

• Typesense server type (Done ✅)

• Ploi surge (Running a BETA 🚧)

• Customised server (WIP 🚧)

• Streaming backups (Cancelled ❌)

• Brand new file explorer (Still planned 📅)

• And many more… (And boy, did we deliver on other features, take a look above 😊)

So not everything worked out, but that doesn’t mean it’s not coming. We’re still actively working on these features, and we’re already planning ahead.

Reviews

We’d appreciate if you have the time to leave a review for Ploi, it helps us a lot! 🥰

https://ploi.review

If you want to be listed on our testimonial wall: https://ploi.io/testimonials (including a link), let us know by replying to this email with your testimonial!

What's coming for 2026?

• Brand new file explorer

• WordPress enhancements (https://roadmap.ploi.io/projects/2-site-level-requests/items/1300-wordpress-feature-roadmap-proposal-for-ploi)

• Status page updates & new features

• Populair items from our roadmap (yes, some have been open too long)

• Mobile app updates

• Exciting updates we can’t share about 👀

• The same level of dedication as we did for 2025 💪

Stay connected

• Discord: https://ploi.io/discord

• Twitter: https://twitter.com/ploi_deploy

• Facebook: https://facebook.com/ploideploy

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ploi_deploy/

• Mastadon: https://phpc.social/@ploi

• Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/ploi.io

Thank you for being part of the Ploi community in 2025! We're excited to continue serving your deployment needs and bringing you more innovations in 2026! 🚀

Changelog

• [Added] Wrapped feature (https://ploi.io/panel/wrapped)

• [Added] PHP 8.5

• [Added] Deployments are now stored forever the site lives 100% history will be available

• [Added] When you link a site to a docker app, it will now show which site directly in the list

• [Changed] Moved phpMyAdmin as site 1-click installer, it has been removed from the server manage page

• [Changed] We now default to PHP 8.5 for new server installations

• [Changed] Hetzner DNS now uses the new API endpoint

• [Changed] Dropped Composer V1 support

• [Fixed] Issue that automatic updates wouldn’t run

• [Fixed] UpCloud DEV plans would use the wrong disk (HDD instead of standard)

• [Fixed] Microsoft teams notifications wouldn’t work, they do now

• [Fixed] NGINX issue for the catchall configuration, now properly sends a 444 response

Previous recaps

• 2024: https://ploi.io/news/recap-ploi-2024

• 2023: https://ploi.io/news/recap-ploi-2023

• 2022: https://ploi.io/news/recap-ploi-2022

• 2021: https://ploi.io/news/recap-ploi-2021

• 2020: https://ploi.io/news/recap-ploi-2020

• 2019: https://ploi.io/news/recap-ploi-2019

Servers now belong to teams instead of individual users, enabling better team collaboration and access control.

🎉 Teams update - major changes

What changed?

Servers now belong to teams instead of individual users.

• All your existing servers are now in your Personal Team (automatic, no action needed)

• Switch between teams to access different servers, sites, and resources

• Everything is filtered by your current team context

Key features

🔄 Team switching

• Switch teams from the sidebar, teams list, search results, or team detail pages

• Smart navigation keeps you on the same page when switching (if it exists in the new team)

🔍 Team-Scoped everything

• Dashboard, servers, sites, backups, scripts, monitoring - all filtered by current team

• Global search now includes teams with quick team switching from results

🔐 New "Manage Backups" permission

• Team owners can now control who accesses the backup overview page

📬 Better notifications

• Both team owners AND server creators get notified when servers are ready

• Notifications include team context

📊 Team logs filtering

• Filter logs by server and/or user

• Quick reset to clear filters

⚙️ Enhanced UI

• Team search appears when you have 5+ teams

• Better empty states showing your team name

• Improved provider selection in team settings

What this means

Solo users: Nothing changes - everything works through your personal team

Team managers: Better control over team access and permissions

Team members: Clear visibility into what you can access and do

Coming soon

• Team-based API keys (scoped to specific teams)

• More granular permissions (e.g., separate create/delete/update permissions)

Changelog

• [Added] Huge teams update 🔥

• [Added] A fresh dashboard

• [Added] Server monitoring recovery notifications

• [Added] Typesense server type

• [Added] Ability to set a message and HTTP code for suspending websites

• [Added] New info card to site show view with all relevant data

• [Added] New testing domain ploi.xyz

• [Added] Breadcrumbs

• [Changed] Header has been removed and user menu has been moved to bottom sidebar

• [Changed] The site uptime monitoring feature has completely been refactored, a better graph, way more data

• [Changed] The server monitoring feature has completely been refactored, a better graph, way more data (and we’re adding 30 days soon)

• [Fixed] A issue where backups could get stuck, and you’d force them to start again a wrong status would be applied

• Additional disk monitoring

• Network monitoring

• Revamped the chart and filters, much clearer now

• Added history logging for a maximum 14(!) days

• Added recovery notifications

Directly available and ready to use!

We’re currently also considering saving service usage details, like MySQL or PHP-FPM (per version), which would show up in the server monitoring section as well. Vote on that here: https://roadmap.ploi.io/projects/1-server-level-requests/items/1318-service-monitoring

New update location: Amsterdam 🇳🇱

For a European tool it was kinda amazing we never had a European uptime monitoring location. Not anymore, we now offer Amsterdam as a EU solution. In the Monitor tab in Ploi on site level, you can now configure Amsterdam as uptime monitoring location.

Roadmap updates

You might have heard about the open-source software Roadmap we’ve been actively developing. A lot has been added just recently:

• Feedback widget, allowing to easily let users submit feedback through your own application

• Activity widget, allowing easy access to the recent items and changelogs through your own application

• Upgraded to Tailwind 4, Vite 7 & Filament V4

And many, many more, go check out the free software here: https://github.com/ploi/roadmap

Changelog

• [Added] New server monitoring UI

• [Added] Server monitoring now also has Networking grahps

• [Added] Recovery notifications for server monitoring

• [Added] MySQL 8.4 support

• [Added] New testing domain on-ploi.com

• [Added] New testing domain ploi.bot

• [Added] New testing domain ploi.cool

• [Added] Awesome new update schedule options

• [Added] New popover for certificates with details

• [Added] Site clone will also copy over staging site now

• [Added] Ability to select all databases when creating a backup that do not have a backup yet

• [Added] Docker application status syncing, now whenever you run docker compose up on the server Ploi will automatically sync upon loading the view

• [Added] Zurich region for AWS

• [Added] New insight: SSL renewal fails (from letsencrypt.log file)

• [Improved] Site alerts now show consitently above the deploy script (like app_debug true)

• [Changed] Server transfer links are now 24 hours valid

• [Changed] Suspending sites now returns a 503 status which is more SEO friendly

• [Fixed] Issue when switching to dark mode and the code editor not going along with the new theme

• [Fixed] Backups redirect fix when editting backups on deeper pages

• [Fixed] SFTP uploading issue with custom system users which could have the wrong permissions

• [Fixed] Issue where the innoDB pool insight would be duplicated over and over again

• [Fixed] Issue with load balancers and SSL renewals, improved reloading script

• [Fixed] Cannot unselect "Options" filter on Servers page without resetting all filters

• [Fixed] DNS verification when site is connected with domain fails

• [Fixed] Change PHP version for a queue

• [Fixed] DNS Zone after domain change

• [Fixed] Craft CMS logs tab issues

• [Fixed] CMD + S keybind when a modal opens on the site overview page, doesn’t save deploy script anymore

• [Fixed] SSL expire date checker

• [Fixed] Issue when creating a Minio server on AWS not having the ports configured correctly

Ploi Core is now completely free, no purchase fee anymore. You will still need the Ploi Unlimited (https://ploi.io/pricing) subscription, but other than that you can now download this software for free at https://github.com/ploi/ploi-core

This change now makes it possible for others to contribute and make it an even better product 🔥 

If you made a purchase, or a renewal in the last 2 months, please get in touch with us in on the support platform, you will be eligible for a refund 😎

Other than that, there’s a huge update list again with some significant changes, like a new server installation screen, new server type, hostname support and many, many more.

If you have any suggestions or feature requests be sure to submit them on our roadmap: https://roadmap.ploi.io 🥰

Changelog

• [Added] Ploi Core is now FREE!
• [Added] Staging to production sites now can have the FastCGI flush deployment script variable
• [Added] Breadcrumbs
• [Added] Completely new server installation screen exactly showing you what it’s doing
• [Added] Button to refresh the GIT repositories list when installing a GIT repository
• [Added] Hostname support just like IPv6 support for your server IP address
• [Added] Sponsoring page: https://ploi.io/sponsoring
• [Added] Trademark page: https://ploi.io/trademark
• [Added] Hetzner plans in server creation screen are now properly grouped
• [Added] Valkey server type support: https://ploi.io/features/valkey-server
• [Added] Tags on site index now also show
• [Added] Ability to edit backup configurations updating all the backups using that configuration
• [Added] Certbot automatic update check when a SSL request fails due to an old certbot version
• [Added] A new deployment start webhook url when a deployment starts, trigger an URL that you define
• [Added] New debug tools when a server is unreachable to see what part is actually failing to connect
• [Added] Ploi server monitoring now supports multiple disks
• [Added] Ability to select if you want redis or valkey when installing a new server
• [Added] A check when a backup is stuck, it now notifies you about this
• [Added] Ability to run cronjobs directly
• [Added] Server updates now have way more options to run exactly when you want in manage tab
• [Added] New server insight if the innodb buffer pool is full, the insight can clear it for you and raise the buffer setting for you
• [Updated] Nextcloud now always installs the latest version, NGINX configurations have been updated as well
• [Updated] NGINX amplify is now available for Ubuntu 24 as well
• [Changed] Network tab is now called Firewall in server level
• [Changed] Two factor routes are now rate limited for security improvement
• [Changed] FastCGI buffers have been raised for new websites from 16k to 32k
• [Prepared] PHP 8.5 preparations
• [Fixed] An issue with duplicate www.www. server names when using custom certificates
• [Fixed] An issue with PHP 8.4 not being able to uninstall
• [Fixed] An issue with Minio and SSL renewals, it now copies the new certificate to the correct directory when a renew happened

It’s been widely requested, repeated: when is full IPv6 support coming in Ploi? (https://roadmap.ploi.io/projects/1-server-level-requests/items/2-ipv6-support)

As of today, it is now possible to create servers with IPv6 (obviously, only if the native server provider offers it). Also, if your old server has an IPv6 address, you could even decide to move over to IPv6 via your server settings (and disable IPv4 if you don’t need that at all).

Important: to use IPv6 at all, you will need to have an IPv6 address on your side as well if you want to interact with your server, otherwise, it will not work (connecting via SSH or to the domain you’ve added to your server). Check if you have IPv6 here: https://ploi.io/what-is-my-ip

On Ploi’s side, both subjects (server connections and NGINX configurations) have been updated to work with IPv6.

What providers work with IPv6?

Basically, all supported providers work with IPv6; it’s just a matter of provisioning the server that’s different.

• UpCloud: Works completely

• Hetzner: Works completely

• Amazon: Works completely

• Vultr: Works completely

• DigitalOcean: Works, but you always get an IPv4 record as well; it is not possible yet to create IPv6-only servers

• Hostinger: Works, but you always get an IPv4 record as well; it is not possible yet to create IPv6-only servers

• Linode: Works, but you always get an IPv4 record as well; it is not possible yet to create IPv6-only servers

• Katapult: Works, but you always get an IPv4 record as well, it is not possible yet to create IPv6-only servers

How do I make my current server IPv6 compatible?

If your server provider supports IPv6, it is possible to make your current already-provisioned servers IPv6-ready. We have a guide to follow if you want to make sure your server is IPv6 ready: https://ploi.io/documentation/server/how-do-i-make-my-existing-ubuntu-server-ipv6-ready

Changelog

• [Added] IPv6 support 🥳

• [Added] What is my IP page now also shows IPv6 address (if you have IPv6) (https://ploi.io/what-is-my-ip)

• [Added] Ploi CLI (https://github.com/ploi/cli)

• [Added] Ability to search on tags in global search in servers and sites

• [Added] Ability to define where your .env file lives so the editor knows where to look

• [Changed] S3 backups now use streaming method to improve backup speed and no temporary files on your server taking up space

• [Changed] Fresh Statamic landing page (https://ploi.io/statamic)

• [Changed] Changed Google Drive login to force the auth login screen when re-authing

• [Changed] When creating a WordPress installation with database it will now ignore ‘www’ in the name

• [Fixed] Issue with saving locations in backups because using the wrong columns

• [Fixed] Dark mode issue with the datepicker

• [Fixed] Inconsitency in the backup name when having site file backups and having rotation enabled

Changelog API

• [Added] Docker API - https://developers.ploi.io/containers/list-containers

• [Fixed] Queue paused status would not display

Great news - we've just launched the official Ploi CLI, bringing the full power of Ploi right to your terminal! Now you can manage your entire infrastructure without leaving your command line environment.

Key features

• Manage servers and sites directly from your terminal
• Create and configure databases with simple commands
• Set up and monitor daemons and cronjobs effortlessly
• Quick deployment triggers right from your local environment

Getting started is easy

1. Install Ploi CLI: composer global require ploi/cli

2. Authenticate with your Ploi API credentials

3. Start managing your infrastructure!

More in our documentation which is a work in progress: https://cli.ploi.io, and here’s the repository: https://github.com/ploi/cli

Streaming backups ⚡️

It’s been on the roadmap for a while (https://roadmap.ploi.io/projects/1-server-level-requests/items/14-stream-backups) and it’s finally coming, backup streaming.

Why streaming? Streaming saves you the resources on your server, instead of creating a file on your server and uploaded that to the driver you have selected, it’s being send right away to that driver. No more overhead or wasted space.

Currently all S3 drivers (Custom S3, AWS S3 & DigitalOcean spaces) already stream it to your storage. All the other drivers (except the local one) will be done in the upcoming week!

Changelog

• [Added] Ploi CLI initial release
• [Added] Ability to reset database user passwords
• [Added] Tags to servers and sites (settings tab)
• [Added] A brand new laravel log parser in the Laravel tab of your site 
• [Added] SSH login logs to the SSH login notifications modal and logs tab (dropdown)
• [Added] Ploi.website as testing domain
• [Changed] All S3 drivers now stream backups instead of creating the file on the server and uploading it then
• [Changed] Cloudflare DNS SSL request propagation seconds increase from 20 to 30
•  [Fixed] Bugfix for tenants when you changed the PHP version for the main site, tenant would not always come along

Ubuntu 24.04 support 🐧

We're proud to announce full support for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, ensuring you have access to the latest stable operating system for your servers. This addition brings enhanced security features and improved performance to your infrastructure.

ZeroSSL integration 🔒

Security remains a top priority, and with our new ZeroSSL support, you have an additional trusted option for SSL certificate management, making secure deployments even more accessible.

PHP 8.4 support ⚡

Keeping up with the latest PHP developments, we've added support for PHP 8.4, allowing you to leverage the newest features and improvements in PHP development.

Passkeys support 🔑

We've implemented passkeys support, offering a more secure and convenient way to authenticate, moving beyond traditional password-based security.

Under the hood

Beyond these major features, we've dedicated significant effort to bug fixing and platform stability:

• Enhanced system reliability
• Improved deployment performance
• Strengthened security measures
• Refined user interface responsiveness

What's coming for 2025?

While we're proud of what we've accomplished in 2024, we're already looking ahead to next year. Our roadmap at https://roadmap.ploi.io/ continues to grow with your feedback and suggestions. If you have ideas for new features or encounter any issues, please don't hesitate to submit them.

A few highlights we will be focussing on for 2025:

• IPv6 support (https://roadmap.ploi.io/projects/1-server-level-requests/items/2-ipv6-support)
• Typesense server type (https://roadmap.ploi.io/projects/1-server-level-requests/items/130-typesense-server)
• Ploi Surge (https://roadmap.ploi.io/projects/1-server-level-requests/items/1126-load-testing-tool-ploi-surge)
• Customized server (https://roadmap.ploi.io/projects/1-server-level-requests/items/803-customized-server-creation)
• Streaming backups (https://roadmap.ploi.io/projects/1-server-level-requests/items/14-stream-backups)
• Brand new file explorer
• And many more… 

Stay connected with us on social media:

• Twitter: https://twitter.com/ploi_deploy
• Facebook: https://facebook.com/ploideploy
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ploi_deploy/
• Mastadon: https://phpc.social/@ploi
• Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/ploi.io

Thank you for being part of the Ploi community in 2024! We're excited to continue serving your deployment needs and bringing you more innovations in 2025! 🚀

Changelog

• [Added] Last used column to the passkeys update
• [Added] New testing domain: ploi.sh
• [Added] Database copy connection URL in databases tab
• [Changed] PHP installation tab is now improved and searchable
• [Changed] We now store server logs separately allowing us to log more content instead of the 40.000 character limit
• [Dropped] PHP 5.6 support has been dropped
• [Fixed] Issue when saving excluded tables for database backups
• [Improved] Swoole (PHP) installation is now installing properly including detecting failures
• [Improved] Event (PHP) installation is now installing properly including detecting failures
• [Improved] Swap installation is now smarter for newly created servers, we are working on swap management as well after installations

• Added PostgreSQL 17 support
• Fixed that annoying Redis installation issue (no more "Class redis not found" errors!)
• Made SSL certificates available via ZeroSSL for all tenants

Something exciting brewing... 🚀

We've started beta testing Ploi Surge, our new website load testing tool. Want to help us test it? Drop us a message!

For our API users: We've added some new endpoints to make your life easier:

• Manage your load balancers (attach/detach servers)
• Work with source control providers and their repositories
• Full docs: https://developers.ploi.io

Changelog

- [Added] PHP 8.4 🎉
- [Added] Passkeys support
- [Added] Pre, main and post deployment scripts for zero downtime deployments
- [Added] Tenants are now also able to request SSL certificates via ZeroSSL
- [Added] PostgreSQL 17 support
- [Fixed] Issue with using testing domains & Statamic (but might also cover other frameworks) not using HTTPS properly
- [Fixed] Issue with installing redis (Class redis not found error), this is now properly being installed in PHP
- [Fixed] Issue with installing certbot being unavailable in the repositories, will be retried with a decent amount of time in between to guarantee success
- [Improved] Adding Hetzner API DNS key, earlier required you to have a domain in your Hetzner account, this is no longer the case
- [BETA] We’ve started with the initial testers for Ploi Surge, a website load testing tool

Changelog API

- [Added] Attach endpoint load balancers: https://developers.ploi.io/315-load-balancers/2196-attach-server
- [Added] Detach endpoint load balancers: https://developers.ploi.io/315-load-balancers/2197-detach-server
- [Added] List source control providers: https://developers.ploi.io/28-user/2198-list-source-control-providers
- [Added] Show source control providers: https://developers.ploi.io/28-user/2199-show-source-control-providers
- [Added] Repositories for source control provider: https://developers.ploi.io/28-user/2200-repositories-for-source-control-providers

While Let's Encrypt remains a great choice, ZeroSSL brings additional features to the table including extended validation (EV) certificates, priority support, and flexible certificate management.

You'll benefit from higher rate limits for certificate issuance and a convenient dashboard to manage all your certificates in one place. For high-traffic sites or multiple domains, ZeroSSL's infrastructure provides robust support for large-scale deployments with reliable performance and seamless renewals.

How do I request a ZeroSSL certificate?

But that's not all – we've also rolled out some game-changing features to enhance your server management experience:

🌐 HTTP3 support (BETA): Experience faster, more reliable connections with our new HTTP3 support for certificates. Early results are promising! (Not all servers supports this as you need NGINX 1.25 or higher)

⚡️ Deployment superpowers: Custom variables support for webhook URLs and API deployment endpoints gives you more control over your deployments than ever before.

💾 Smarter backups:

• New TAR compression option for more efficient storage

• Automatic cleanup of failed backups

• Enhanced backup management through our API

🤝 Better value: Save 10% when you switch to yearly subscriptions – now with automatic enrollment!

As always, check out our detailed changelog below for the complete list of improvements and fixes. Take note that we don’t log everything in there, Ploi receives about 5 to 10 commits each day with fixes, small improvements. Logging those would generate insanely long changelogs so we filter & structure those properly 🥰

Be sure to follow us for the latest updates!

• Discord: https://ploi.io/discord

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Changelog

• [Added] ZeroSSL support 🔐

• [Added] Ability to set timezone automatically for newly created servers (from your profile)

• [Added] Ability to use TAR compression for backups

• [Added] Ability to pass in custom variables when using the deploy webhook URL or API deployment endpoint (https://x.com/dennis_smink/status/1820791594850689514)

• [Added] Ability to clean up backups that have failed from the server instead of leaving them there

• [Added] Ploi.club as new testing domain

• [Added] Ability to subscribe automatically yearly which includes a 10% discount

• [Added] New site filter, show only sites which have robots disabled (including the badge)

• [Added] New amazon region Middle East (UAE)

• [Added] HTTP3 support for certificates, currently in BETA but the results have been really promising! (Not all servers supports this as you need NGINX 1.25 or higher)

• [Changed] Most tables have been completely refactored and generalized in Ploi for a better user experience

• [Changed] System user passwords that were being generated were 16 characters long, that’s changed to 24 characters now

• [Changed] We removed/filtered the 512MB plans from AWS, the minimum requirements has always been 1024MB minimum

• [Fixed] MariaDB installations now properly respect their selected versions

• [Fixed] In some occasional event it could happen that an older certbot version would get installed (probably due to legacy packages), this is now set to hold which solves the whole issue

• [Updated] Nextcloud to version 30

Changelog API

• [Added] New database backups endpoint - https://developers.ploi.io/database/list-database-backups

• [Added] New site file backups endpoint - https://developers.ploi.io/site/list-site-file-backups

• [Fixed] Update scripts endpoint (didn’t update properly) - https://developers.ploi.io/scripts/update-script

Before, you’d be able to save Cloudflare & Hetzner API credentials for DNS management, and for DigitalOcean, Vultr, and others you’d need to have a server provider attached.

Multiple providers

This is no more and has been separated. You can now easily create your own (and as many) DNS providers under the Integrations tab in your profile.

The biggest benefit of this is that you can now also save other API keys from your customers to manage their DNS, instead of having to add all the domains to your Cloudflare account (or any other provider) for example.

The part where we mean action required is a 50% chance it went right in the migration, or not. How do you check & fix? That’s the easy part luckily.

How to check & fix

Go to your site in Ploi where you know DNS was configured, and simply open the DNS tab, if it loads all is good. If it throws you a big red toast, then you’d need to update the DNS provider in your profile under the Integrations tab.

If you did that, then also check in the site settings, under the DNS provider card, if the correct DNS provider has been selected. After that, you’re good to go!

Changelog

• [Added] Ability to have as many DNS providers as you want
• [Added] Line numbers to the editor for tenants (NGINX config)
• [Added] Ability to edit the bitbucket source control providers for their workspace name
• [Improved] Hetzner DNS certificate request is now being done via an official certbot plugin
• [Fixed] Issue with saving in the NGINX editor which would result in a 500 error (our side)
• [Fixed] Applications would not allow to change repository or branch in repository tab

Bug fixing month?

You might of noticed we didn’t release that many features in the last 2 months, and while we actually did release quite a few, we didn’t announce them as big as we used to do normally. From May, until the end of July this year, we try to focus as much as possible on increasing our infrastructure, fixing pesky bugs, and tackling small quick QOLs. We’re trying to make the already stable Ploi, even more stable to prepare for the future!

What’s cooking in Ploi HQ?

Obviously, we have been cooking a lot of cool stuff; multiple DNS provider support, the ability to clone staging/production sites completely, PM2 improvements with ecosystem.config.js and many, many more. Obviously, if you have any idea’s feel free to submit them to our roadmap or Discord!

Changelog

[Added] Ability to always use isolated system users so you don’t always have to open advanced settings anymore (enable in profile)

• [Added] Ability to edit redis configuration for default server type (manage tab)
• [Added] Ability to read redis logs in logs tab (dropdown)
• [Added] Ability to close modals with ESC key
• [Added] Ability for users to completely remove their accounts
• [Added] ploi.team testing domain added
• [Added] Ability to download Let’s Encrypt certificates directly from the panel
• [Fixed] Bug in test domains that would always say it was successfully created while it might not
• [Fixed] Move site system user now also works for team users
• [Fixed] Clone site now also properly respects custom SSH ports
• [Fixed] Clone database now also properly respects custom SSH ports
• [Fixed] Security issue with PHP FPM sockets, this has been patched now, older sites will automatically be patched in batches (thank you Vladimir!)
• [Fixed] Issue with deploy script suggestions modal keep turning back when changing page, or editing environment file for example
• [Fixed] Issue with deploy script editor and variables, if you’d start typing {SITE_ and entered through on a variable you’d get {{SITE_PHP}} with double brackets
• [Fixed] Documentation search is more comprehensive and smart now
• [Fixed] Documentation search no results now actually shows no results alert
• [Fixed] Issue where PermitRootLogin in SSHD config would not be set properly to no with fresh installations
• [Fixed] Dark mode issue with SSL expires label on sites overview
• [Fixed] Tenant SSL certificate request via DNS provider is now properly validated, email field removed
• [Fixed] Minio installation would not always succeed because of missing installation steps
• [Fixed] Typo in the site file backup succeed email (thank you Sam!)
• [Fixed] Issue when you used SFTP as backup driver and had spaces in backup path, these are now escaped
• [Fixed] Issue with DigitalOcean spaces and using site file backups using incorrect regions and would fail
• [Changed] Company VAT number has changed to: NL866641658B01
• [Changed] We used to save the plans in the database, this is unnecessary and causes additional queries which are useless, this is now hardcoded and migrated
• [Changed] Script code content increased to 7500
• [Changed] AWS CLI installation has been moved to snap instead of apt

Ubuntu 24.04 isn’t selected by default yet, usually, we wait 1 or 2 weeks to get rid of all the possible bugs that were introduced. After this, we’ll default to 24.04 but for now, you have to switch it to 24.04 manually when you create a server.

Should I upgrade?

"If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it", in other words; no, we don’t advise upgrading existing servers. 

You can view all the release cycles, end of support, and more details about your OS here: https://ubuntu.com/about/release-cycle

From our perspective, we can’t recommend upgrading from an older Ubuntu version to a newer version within your existing server. The best is to provision a fresh server and migrate sites/data over slowly if you absolutely have or want to.

This ensures you have a fresh server, all services run with the latest updates and you do not have to migrate/upgrade/update any packages to make it work.

Changelog

• [Added] Ubuntu 24.04 support 🔥
• [Added] Ability to search on server in site file backups
• [Added] Server clone feature
• [Added] Ability to copy log content in a log modal including redacted
• [Added] Ability to sort on disk size in sites
• [Added] Ability to save composer authentication (inside PHP tab)
• [Added] Ability to view database credentials for 1 time after creation
• [Added] New toastr package
• [Added] Ability to set a custom name for a backup ZIP
• [Added] ElePHPant page 🐘
• [Added] AWS eu-south-2 region to server creation
• [Added] Laravel Reverb tab including composer deploy script suggestions
• [Added] Fresh referral page
• [Added] 30 minute timeout when you delete a server, you can delete right away, but the default is 30 minutes so you can undo the deletion
• [Added] Ability to select all servers when adding a new SSH key in your profile
• [Added] Ability to obfuscate the SSH login notification IP address before or after
• [Added] Ability to search in tenants (global search also included)
• [Added] Ability to set a port for public and server for storage servers (minio)
• [Added] New deploy script variable {DEPLOYMENT_SOURCE} to get the source from the deployment
• [Improved] 2FA disabling now requires to enter the token for extra security
• [Improved] Whenever an SSL request fails, you will be presented with a modal with the direct failing result
• [Fixed] 2FA feature input fields has now changed to 1 complete input, for better understanding
• [Fixed] A bug inside the database clone modal with the wrong server types
• [Fixed] A bug inside the opcache enabled, would always popup again after ignoring/fixing
• [Fixed] A bug when you had quick deploy on with Gitlab and the webhook couldnt be found anymore, it will just disable quick deploy for you
• [Fixed] A bug inside the FTP backup driver for the wrong path (could not find *.zip error)
• [Fixed] A bug when deleting a cronjob that was attached to a site, it would let all the cronjobs dissapear and on a refresh they’d be back again
• [Fixed] Site suspension was broken due to a configuration error, this is fixed
• [Removed] Docker version statement from default docker compose file

We're thrilled to announce the launch of Ploi Mobile V3, a significant upgrade from our previous version. Remember the sneak peek we gave in December? It’s finally here, and it's everything we promised and more!

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Why are we excited? 🌟

The leap from Ionic to React Native is more than just a technical shift. It transforms Ploi Mobile into a genuinely native app, offering an unmatched user experience with improved performance and responsiveness. This change alone elevates the app to a whole new level of efficiency and ease of use.

What's new in V3? 🆕

• Multiple account management: Seamlessly switch between different Ploi accounts within the app. Perfect for users handling multiple projects or clients.

• Enhanced sorting capabilities: Now sort your sites based on disk usage, making it easier to manage resources efficiently.

• New global overviews: Dive into comprehensive views for backups, insights, and monitoring. Range filtering adds an extra layer of control and precision.

• True dark mode: Experience the OLED dark mode, designed to be easy on your eyes and battery.

• Revamped network tab: Advanced features like allow/deny rules and IP address specifications give you more power over your network settings.

Don't miss out on the chance to elevate your server management experience. Download or update to the latest version of Ploi Mobile today and explore the fresh set of features and improvements.

Downloading 🚀

iOS: https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/ploi/id1556215510

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.ploi.app

Happy managing! 🎉

Changelog

• [Added] New mobile app 📱🥰

• [Added] Ability to do deployments without synchronized deployments (if you have any)

• [Added] New insight: is OPcache enabled

• [Added] SSH login notifications 🕵️

• [Fixed] Issue when creating a repository with Bitbucket for Statamic or Craft CMS

• [Fixed] 2FA issue when submitting to fast (419 error)

• [Fixed] Team members couldn’t schedule deployments

• [Fixed] Minor SSL issues for Minio storage servers

• [Fixed] Minor SSL issues for tenants

Changelog API

• [Added] Install WordPress CLI - https://developers.ploi.io/services/install-wordpress-cli

• [Added] Run WordPress CLI command - https://developers.ploi.io/services/run-wp-cli-command

• [Added] Uninstall WordPress CLI - https://developers.ploi.io/services/uninstall-wordpress-cli

Let’s make this year great again without any hassle of managing your servers and sites, let Ploi handle that 🤓

We’ve already got awesome things planned for this month and for the whole year 🚀

Mobile App Testing 📱

Those who are active in our Discord server might have noticed we’ve begun testing a whole new fresh mobile app. This email also includes a public link for you to test the mobile app! 

Test the apps here:

iOS: https://testflight.apple.com/join/RdKynxDr

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.ploi.app (still in review, might not be available yet)

New web server ✨

Last Sunday, we migrated to a fresh web server separating the workers from the web which is better for the overall infrastructure. This should not affect your server too much, but it might result in connection issues when editing your .env file or NGINX configuration.

If you do use strict IP whitelisting, we recommend checking your firewalls against our IP addresses here (make sure you’re logged in): https://ploi.io/documentation/introduction/ploi-ip-for-whitelisting

Disk usages 🤔 

Recently, we added the ability to see how much disk usage your sites have: https://twitter.com/ploi_deploy/status/1740448657114058754

This feature is available for all users on the Pro or Unlimited plan! 

Changelog

• [Added] FrankenPHP octane support
• [Added] Site disk usages on overviews and API
• [Added] Server cloning (will be publicly available next week)
• [Improved] Octane tab removed save button, spawn button is enough
• [Fixed] Deployments via API would always assume their scheduled, this is fixed now (didn’t affect usability)

Let's sum up a few of the highlights for 2023!

• Ploi celebrates its five-year anniversary 🎉
• Backup notifications update 🔔
• Scheduled deployments update ⏰
• Dashboard update 🎨

PHP 8.3 added

PHP 8.3 was released on November 23, 2023, and we supported this version directly after. You can easily install PHP 8.3 via the PHP tab when you visit your server in Ploi. Please note that older OS versions like Ubuntu 18 might not support PHP 8.3 and you’ll not be able to install this version. In that case, you might want to consider upgrading your server or migrating to a fresh server.

What's coming for 2024?

So when you’re looking at our https://roadmap.ploi.io/, you might of notice we’re not done yet. There is so much awesome stuff on there, and we do not stop working until we’ve finished all those cards. If you have a feature in mind or discovered a bug, do not hesitate and submit it to our roadmap. We also post regularly on our social media about the updates we do. 

Be sure to follow us!

• Twitter: https://twitter.com/ploi_deploy
• Facebook: https://facebook.com/ploideploy
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ploi_deploy/

Thank you for using Ploi in 2023 and we hope to see you in 2024, waiting for a big bag of features to come that year 😎👋

Here is the recap of last year: https://ploi.io/news/recap-ploi-2022

Changelog

• [Added] PHP 8.3 🎉
• [Added] Postgresql 16
• [Added] MariaDB 11.2 & MariaDB 10.11
• [Added] Confirm modal when deleting an SSH key from your profile
• [Added] Worker IP address is now added to the testing connection failed email so you know which to whitelist
• [Added] More randomized server name possibilities, there are now 14.000+ possibilities for randomized server names
• [Added] Ability to move sites between server system users
• [Added] Ability to redirect to the panel when you’re accessing ploi.io and you’re logged in
• [Added] 1Password button added whenever you’re getting your server credentials (in settings tab)
• [Added] Sweden region for UpCloud provider
• [Added] Version numbers for every service possible in status tab
• [Added] Filter on server index to filter on servers that require a reboot
• [Added] 2 more testing domains, ploi.dev & ploi.ing
• [Changed] Cloudflare key’s now used scoped keys instead of the global API keys for enhanced security
• [Changed] Increased max configuration length Docker applications
• [Changed] Upgraded our site uptime monitoring servers, their IP’s has changed
• [Changed] Email server type has been deprecated
• [Improved] Is supervisor running insight will now automatically get removed once you provision queue’s or daemons
• [Improved] Referral program has been revised, you can now see in detail how many referees you’ve received
• [Fixes] Symphony tab improved
• [Internal] We’ve migrated from Laravel Mix to Vite 

A Dashboard So Fresh, It Deserves Its Own Runway! ✨

You know how you always have 101 tabs open on your browser, desperately trying to keep track of server metrics, insights, and what's for dinner tonight? Well, consider your life uncomplicated.

We are thrilled to introduce our brand-new, sparkly Dashboard! 🌈

CleanShot 2023-09-18 at 13.07.41@2x.png 1.89 MBWith this update, we've brought everything you care about front and center. Here's a sneak peek into what's waiting for you:

• Real-time Insights: No more sifting through logs at midnight. Your key metrics and analytics are now on display, as clear as your love for tech! 📈

• Monitoring Details: CPU spikes? Memory overload? Keep tabs on all the action happening on your servers, with details so granular, you can see the 'byte dust' settling. 🖥️

• Your Servers & Sites: All your beloved servers and sites are now accessible in one unified view. Talk about putting all your ducks—or in this case, servers—in a row! 🦆

The monitoring, and insights details also come with their own new dashboards, press "View all" at the top right of the card to get a global overview 📊

Meet Our New Worker 🤖

If you're using firewalls, please consult our documentation to find the new IP address to whitelist. This new worker is itching to get to work, but it can't be without your green light!

You can find all our worker IP addresses here: https://ploi.io/documentation/introduction/ploi-ip-for-whitelisting

That's it for this month's update! We are continually awed by this incredible community of developers, tech enthusiasts, and server whisperers. You inspire us to make Ploi better each day.

Have fun exploring the new features and as always, if you run into any issues or have suggestions, our support team is just a click away.

Changelog

• [Added] A fresh new dashboard!

• [Added] Ability to setup failed notifications for backups

• [Added] WordPress admin link if WordPress is installed to the sidebar

• [Added] Line numbers to several code editors like NGINX configuration, database configuration

• [Added] Ability to proxy docker containers to a site if NGINX and docker is both installed

• [Added] Ability to set a project from server settings directly is now possible

• [Added] Ability to request tenant certificate via DNS provider is now possible

• [Added] Ability to reset site permissions inside manage tab

• [Added] New insight if the database service has too many connections and also provides a fix for this

• [Improved] Vultr server creation error handling

• [Improved] Meilisearch server indexes list isn’t limited anymore

• [Improved] Latest NGINX version is now being used instead of 1.18

• [Improved] When installing a server with database, the force of utf8_unicode_ci is now removed

• [Improved] When spawning Laravel Octane, you may now pick workers up to 1000 instead of 500 as max

• [Improved] When cloning a database, you weren’t able to clone to a database-type server, or vice-versa, this is now possible

• [Improved] You may now use 10.000 lines for your docker container config instead of 5000 as max

• [Bugfix] SSL request for NodeJS sites when html directory was missing

• [Bugfix] When editing database configuration for MariaDB the wrong config file was loaded and displayed

• [Bugfix] When adding a DNS record an A record was also accepting IPv6, validation prevents this now

• [Bugfix] When adding domain aliases, and you had proxy_ssl_server_name inside the NGINX configuration, it would overwrite that as well, this is now fixed

• [Bugfix] Quick deploy delay setting wasn’t honored

• [Bugfix] When editing a cronjob in a site, it would list all the cronjobs in the server after update has been completed, this is now fixed

Changelog API

• [Added] Ability to setup custom deployments is now possible via the API - https://developers.ploi.io/repositories/custom-deployment

• [Added] Ability to update a server - https://developers.ploi.io/servers/update-server

CleanShot 2023-07-12 at 09.14.38.png 186.53 KBWe understand that managing deployments can sometimes be a juggling act. Coordinating different teams, dealing with different time zones, or simply wanting to schedule updates during non-peak hours, these challenges are all too real. And that's where Scheduled Deployments come in.

Scheduled Deployments allow you to set up deployments for a future date and time of your choosing. Like setting your morning alarm, you can now schedule your deployments and let Ploi handle the rest. Sleep easy knowing your updates will go live at the perfect moment, even if you're away from your desk or sleeping!

We’ve also went ahead and added 2 new deploy script variables for deploy script logic implementations.

• {ANY_DEPLOYMENT_SCHEDULED} - Will return a 1 or 0 if there’s a deployment scheduled

• {DEPLOYMENT_SCHEDULED_AT} - Will return the first scheduled deployment date

You can even use the API to schedule your deployment. You can read more about that here: https://developers.ploi.io/deployments/deploy-site

📣 Your Feedback Matters!

We love hearing from you! Your experiences, suggestions, and stories help us grow and make Ploi better each day. If you've found Ploi's server management tool helpful, we'd be thrilled if you could take a few moments to leave a review.

Visit https://ploi.review, where you can choose your favorite platform to share your thoughts. Remember, your words have power - they can inspire our team and guide fellow developers looking for the perfect server management solution. So, let your voice be heard!

Thanks for your ongoing support. Every single review brings a smile to our faces and keeps us striving for excellence. We can't wait to read your review! 😊

Happy scheduling, everyone!

Changelog

• [Added] Scheduled deployments ⏰

• [Added] New insight to check whether your OPcache is full (https://ploi.io/documentation/server/how-does-server-insights-work)

• [Added] When deleting a tenant, and a certificate was present, it will delete that now

• [Added] SSH button to easier access SSH inside your server

• [Added] NodeJS service restart option for staging to production sites

• [Added] User agent to the health checks

• [Added] Ability to synchronize production to staging (so the reverse)

• [Added] Failover mail configuration to increase deliverability if a service goes out

• [Added] Syncing production sites back to staging

• [Improved] Site file backup failures are now detected better

• [Fixex] Max children insight wasn’t running properly and would never show itself

• [Fixed] API token expiring emails only for the Ploi client

Changelog API

• [Added] Custom server creation requests now allow custom SSH ports

• [Added] Deploy webhook is now in the response

• [Started] A brand new backups endpoint, which will release very soon

Backup Notifications: Attach Notification Channels 🔔

With the new Backup Notifications update, you can now attach your notification channels when a backup starts or finishes. This means you'll always be in the know when your backups are successfully completed, giving you the peace of mind that your data is safe and secure.

To set up your notification channels, simply head over to your Ploi dashboard and go to the backups overview. You can attach your own notification channels per backup.

Changelog: Packed with New Updates 

As always, we are committed to providing you with the best server management experience possible. In our latest changelog, you'll find a treasure trove of updates that enhance Ploi's functionality and make managing your servers & sites a breeze.

Changelog

• [Added] Ability to notify when a database backup starts and finishes to your favorite notification channels
• [Added] Ability to clone whole databases to another server (database type must match)
• [Added] Fresh new chart for server & site monitoring
• [Added] Ability to restore database from Google Drive
• [Added] Ability to request a chain SSL for tenants (add your own extra domains to your tenant)
• [Added] Server column to site file backups in the table
• [Added] Czech language
• [Added] Ability to update the physical servers hostname when changing the name
• [Added] Project specific tabs like Laravel now use the actual site PHP version on the CLI
• [Added] Ability to 1-click install a WordPress cronjob & define the interval for that
• [Added] Ability for team owners to see pending member invites
• [Added] New deployment variable {SITE_DOMAIN} which returns your domain as in ploi.io
• [Added] New deployment variable {SITE_COMPOSER} which returns the composer command with the site’s PHP version
• [Added] When cloning a site, also clone domain aliases and tenants
• [Added] 2 new testing domains (to spread records better), ploi.site & ploi.link
• [Added] Ability to request an SSL certificate based on DNS provider request (Cloudflare, Hetzner, etc)
• [Added] Ability to delete a database when deleting a site (if a database was attached to a site)
• [Added] Ability to create docker networks from the UI
• [Added] Ability to specify additional arguments for the Meilisearch server type 
• [Added] Site file backups index now also has the new queued, in progress & active badge
• [Added] Site file backups are now also notifiable
• [Changed] Backup index now has the filters above the table instead of a dropdown
• [Changed] Status tab in server is now completely renewed and has reload feature for services that support them
• [Changed] Refactored PHP extensions window, you may now also uninstall them
• [Changed] Moved to Redis database storage for site uptime monitoring
• [Changed] Logic to delete a server from your account, this is more fluent now
• [Changed] Databases backup index now shows when it’s queued and running
• [Changed] Katapult server creations are now faster as it checks on server status
• [Fixed] Issue with editing S3 backups in profile
• [Fixed] Issue with installing a new PHP version and not being able to reload FPM as Ploi or system user
• [Fixed] Issue when creating a server with UpCloud and returned an error
• [Fixed] Issue when a team member wanted to install a repository and the installer got stuck
• [Fixed] Issue when patching PHP, not all extensions would be patched
• [Fixed] Don’t allow to add yourself to a team when creating one

https://ploi.io 🎉

The next 5 years?

The next 5 years we’ll again do our best to keep serving you the best experience with managing your servers and sites. We still have a roadmap full (thank you for that!) of features, suggestions and bugs that we can process for Ploi 🤝

Recaps

We’ve made it a default to do a recap each year, we started doing these in 2019 and we’d like to sum these up, from old to new:

• https://ploi.io/news/recap-ploi-2019
• https://ploi.io/news/recap-ploi-2020
• https://ploi.io/news/recap-ploi-2021
• https://ploi.io/news/recap-ploi-2022

Don’t forget

Don’t forget to follow us on our social media & Discord, where we regularly post updates and questions! We’ve also recently joined mastodon!

• https://ploi.io/discord
• https://twitter.com/ploi_deploy
• https://facebook.com/ploideploy
• https://phpc.social/@ploi

If you’re happy with us we love to hear from you in form of a review if you have the time, it shouldn’t take more than 2 minutes!

https://ploi.review

Changelog

• [Added] 5 years 🎉
• [Added] NGINX editor on server level for main server files
• [Added] Brand new auth pages (login, register, 2FA, locked)
• [Added] Grouping Vultr servers in server builder
• [Added] Basic Node version manager installation (manage tab)
• [Added] Markdown support when suspending a website
• [Added] Delete website-related cronjob when website is deleted
• [Added] Label inside backup overview from the backup configuration
• [Added] Laravel Octane support for PHP 8.2
• [Added] Laravel about command to the Laravel tab
• [Added] When using IP whitelisting for the API, and you get denied, you now see the IP address your using in the message to debug it
• [Added] Drastically changed the deploy live log output, much more intuitive now
• [Added] Custom deployments feature also for applications now
• [Added] Comment support for Cloudflare DNS integration
• [Added] Ability to sort backups by name in the backups overview
• [Added] Toggle all button for scripts when you want to run it on all servers
• [Added] Ability to monitor a path for site uptime monitoring
• [Added] Ability to enter multiple IP addresses when adding a network rule
• [Re-Added] Backup restore
• [Improved] Applications on worker server, added deployment logs, rotations and notifications
• [Improved] Reworked all S3 backup commands to prevent the issue with .credentials and .config files
• [Improved] Dropbox backup error handling registration is now better
• [Improved] Vultr API key validation
• [Improved] VAT validation message
• [Updated] Nextcloud version to 25
• [Updated] InertiaJS to version 1
• [Updated] Active statement sidebar if you’re in a site, to have the sites tab active
• [Fixed] Editing backup configurations in your profile
• [Fixed] Monitoring view when refreshing & dropdown range 
• [Fixed] DigitalOcean DNS now uses the actual provider where the server has been created with
• [Removed] OctoberCMS support

Changelog API

• [Added] Description to response - https://roadmap.ploi.io/projects/6-api-level-requests/items/474-add-descriptionnotes-to-servers-response

Changelog Ploi Core

• [Added] NZD currency support
• [Added] Ability to configure if impersonation is possible
• [Added] Notification message when a sync to system fails
• [Added] Cancel subscription button for users to list itself, they can also change/swap their subscription
• [Fixed] Ticket label in admin
• [Fixed] User creation error in admin
• [Fixed] Bugfix for synchronizing sites with PHP version

We’re really grateful for the feedback you have been giving and for helping us out, this helps a lot in making Ploi a better place and helping you make your developer's life easier.

Let's sum up a few of the highlights for 2022!

• The NGINX update 🌍
• The source control update 🕵️
• Docker support 🐳
• Worker servers are now available
• Ubuntu 22 support
• Mobile app update 📱
• New roadmap 🛣️
• Published open source roadmap software
• Published open source heatmap software

PHP 8.2 released

On December 8th, PHP 8.2 was released. This beautiful new PHP version is also available on the panel for you to install! To view all the changes and updates for PHP 8.2 take a look at this article.

What's coming for 2023?

So when you're looking at our roadmap, you might notice we're not done yet. There is so much awesome stuff on there, and we do not stop working until we've finished all those cards. If you have a feature in mind or discovered a bug, do not hesitate and feel free to submit it to our roadmap. We also post regularly on our social media about the updates we do. 

Another big thing for 2023 is our anniversary of 5 years! Yes, it's been that long. Keep a close eye on us in February, we've got some awesome things coming up to celebrate 🎉

Be sure to follow us on social media!

• Twitter: https://twitter.com/ploi_deploy
• Facebook: https://facebook.com/ploideploy
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ploi_deploy/

Thank you for using Ploi in 2022 and we hope to see you in 2023, waiting for a big bag of features to come that year 😎👋

Here is the recap of last year: https://ploi.io/news/recap-ploi-2021

Changelog

• [Added] PHP 8.2 🎉
• [Added] Ability to decouple staging & production sites to have them separated
• [Added] Ability to install Docker to default servers with NGINX
• [Added] Ability to clear the cache of listed files inside the NGINX editor
• [Added] Ability to reset deployment status for staging to production sites
• [Updated] The worker servers & their application feature have gotten a lot of updates, such as advanced repository installation, webhook URL, and deployment logging
• [Updated] When you spawn a daemon or queue and had the "does supervisor need to run" insight, it will now delete that insight automatically
• [Fixed] Error when saving an empty .env file
• [Fixed] Interval destroy for NodeJS sites and live-logs

Changelog API

• [Added] 'name' key to the repository endpoint - https://developers.ploi.io/repositories/get-repository
• [Added] Global overview of all the servers with their monitoring data in 1 request - https://developers.ploi.io/servers/monitored

This new worker will be running upcoming Thursday as we want to make sure everyone gets the time to allow their setup from this new IP address.

You can find the new IP address here:

https://ploi.io/documentation/introduction/ploi-ip-for-whitelisting

Or by running the /ips endpoint in our API:

https://developers.ploi.io/getting-started/ip-addresses

Do I have to take action?

If you use whitelisting in your firewalls or other software that allows access to your servers, you’ll need to whitelist this new IP address.

Please let us know if you have any questions or concerns!

Changelog

• [Added] Ability to use Google Chat as a notification provider
• [Added] Ability to have your own deployments without having a repository installed
• [Added] Ability to read MySQL/MariaDB logs (server level, logs tab)
• [Added] Improved sorting for UpCloud plans in the server builder
• [Added] New insight that inspects NGINX worker connections limit reached
• [Added] Raised server monitoring data to go back to 24 hours instead of 6
• [Added] Restore feature to NGINX config editor
• [Added] Docker networks tab to view all docker networks
• [Added] Ability to edit SSH keys in the profile area
• [Added] Ability to edit backup configurations in the profile area
• [Added] Edit environment button available for "I’ll manage my own deployment" sites
• [Improved] Applications for worker servers have advanced repository installation now as well
• [Improved] Laravel tab: Separated the Horizon statistics card from the Horizon daemon card
• [Fixed] Uptime monitor notification fix for pushover
• [Fixed] Load balancer design fixes
• [Fixed] Ability to force-run site file backups now works again from the backups overview
• [Fixed] Bug when adding a basic auth user with path "/", would crash NGINX

We come to you once again, with a great update, the NGINX update 🔥

We’ve been meaning to visualize the NGINX configuration flow for a while now, and we can safely say we’ve landed on a design and functionality we think is absolutely perfect.

We are also planning on the following updates for this new editor:

• Ability to have some kind of version control (for example undo changed configs)
• Ability to restore original configuration files

If you have any suggestions on this NGINX update please let us know!

Changelog

• [Added] Fluent NGINX configuration editor
• [Added] Ability to specify the path when creating basic auth user
• [Added] Ability for a team member to leave a team on their own
• [Added] Custom Gitlab server support
• [Added] Ability to set up a delay for quick deploy triggers
• [Added] 5 tries to file backups the same as database backups
• [Added] Detailed error reporting to failed file backups the same as database backups
• [Added] Indicator on backups overview to see if there are backups that have failed
• [Added] Force renew SSL button (only for Let’s Encrypt certificates)
• [Added] UpCloud Ubuntu 22 support
• [Added] New insight: sites that use outdated PHP versions
• [Updated] phpMyAdmin installation to version 5.2
• [Improved] Saving the .env file has become much smarter as we added validation
• [Improved] Empty states extracted to their own component and used everywhere there’s no records
• [Fixed] Flush CGI modal bugfix
• [Fixed] Missed semicolon tenants PHP change
• [Fixed] No sites for team members if they were attached to more than 1 team
• [Fixed] Several dark mode fixes
• [Fixed] SSH key was not displaying for SFTP backups when creating a backup
• [Removed] SSH keys count from the dashboard (why did we have this there in the first place?)

Changelog API

• [Added] Ability to specify the path when creating basic auth user
• [Added] Accept wildcard requests for SSL

Source control has become much easier

This was one of the most requested features by far we ever got, so we dove into this and made this a pretty sick feature 🔥

The roadmap item in question: https://roadmap.ploi.io/projects/3-panel-requests/items/159-connect-multiple-accounts-with-same-gitlabgithub-account (we know it has a few votes, that’s because we migrated from our old road mapping software to the open source road mapping software)

It is now possible to attach multiple GIT accounts to your Ploi account and use them to install your projects. Very handy if you have another GIT account from the same provider (like GitLab, or GitHub) and want to be able to manage both.

Head over to your profile, and press the blue button behind the desired provider. Do note, that whenever you want to attach a new provider, you’re logged out before you’re trying to attach a new provider. Chances are, you’ll probably attach a GIT account that’s already attached to your Ploi account.

We’ve also introduced the ability to view how many repositories are using your GIT provider and you can click on the counter and see which repositories are actually using that GIT provider 👊

Backups now have a try limit of 5

We’ve done quite a few updates to the backup system and while this is still ongoing, we wanted to show you 2 new updates to that.

The first one is that backups (currently only database) will have a try limit of 5, if it fails 5 times, then it will deactivate. It will also notify you each time it fails including a detailed error of what’s going on.

The second one is that the backups overview is now bigger and shows a "failed" badge (including the number of tries) whenever a backup fails. With that, you can also press the failed badge and see a description as to why it failed.

For now, that’s it, a bit of a smaller changelog because of the vacation, but we’re back in action and already pushing out new updates💙

Changelog Ploi

• [Added] Ability to attach multiple GIT accounts from the same provider 🔥
• [Added] Backup update - we now display failed messages in the backup overview and have a max tries of 5
• [Added] {SITE_PHP} deploy script variable, usable for getting the whole PHP handler: php8.1
• [Fixes] To the docker integration, mostly from user feedback
• [Fixed] Site file backup for SFTP rotating
• [Fixed] If a deployment message was longer than 255 characters we were unable to save that because of the 255 VARCHAR limit, changed it to TEXT
• [Removed] action_events table traces (Nova) from our database (you really shouldn’t care about this)

We did a BETA test for a small week with users from our Discord community and we can safely say we’ve landed on a pretty good basis. You can now easily install Docker servers via the server creation screen.

We’re not stopping there though, as we’re learning Docker as we go, we still value feedback very much on this new feature. That’s why we ask you, if you have anything, feel free to submit that to our roadmap.

As most of you know, we’ve been refactoring the site file backups feature, and while most has been done, we’re still frequently asking for feedback on how this is going. We haven’t heard anything in a while which makes it seem to be stable enough: but we want to be sure.

If you still experience issues, like no notifications for a failing backup, please report! We’re eager to look into that and solve that along the way.

That being said, we also did raise the backup time from 25 minutes to 35 minutes, which is fairly high. If you’re still hitting this limit, we’re recommending other backup solutions or try to narrow down your backup folder to only backup the files & folders you actually need. (Most of the time this could be user-uploaded content for example).

Changelog Ploi

• [Added] Docker support
• [Added] Ability to select PHP version when spawning a site queue worker
• [Added] Backups now show how long they took
• [Added] Ability to patch PHP versions
• [Added] Support for type ecdsa-sha2-nistp521 SSH keys
• [Added] Ability to run multiple servers behind 1 IP address
• [Added] When you upgrade your subscription, you will now receive an email containing the invoice as well
• [Added] Ability to edit Google Drive folder ID for backups
• [Added] New command for Statamic: static:warm
• [Added] Deploy script suggestions are back again
• [Updated] We migrated from Vue 2 to Vue 3
• [Updated] All modals have been rewritten to have their own routes & logic
• [Updated] You can now resize modals to fullscreen (and this saves to your local storage)
• [Updated] Monaco editor has been updated to the latest version
• [Updated] Backups overview now has a wider container
• [Updated] File backups can now take 35 minutes instead of 25 minutes
• [Updated] Rollbacks are now logged as well
• [Updated] Notification channel labels are now editable in your profile
• [Updated] Validation for network rules, can’t start with a 0
• [Updated] Dropbox backups now use refresh tokens confirm with their latest updates for new clients
• [Changed] Increased delay for DigitalOcean server installations before Ploi starts installation
• [Changed] Native push notifications now use emoji’s for clarity
• [Changed] The button to cancel your subscription from “Delete” to “Cancel”
• [Fixed] Gitlab nested repositories deeper than 3 levels was not supported, it is now
• [Fixed] An issue with teams & members for load balancers
• [Fixed] Updating a cronjob when the user was root, it would change the log location to the wrong folder
• [Fixed] Bug when pausing a cronjob, it would return a smaller list because of a logic issue

Changelog Ploi API

• [Added] Clone sites available in API
• [Added] Install PHP versions available in API
• [Added] Tenant NGINX configuration
• [Added] PHP version & system user keys to site queues endpoint
• [Added] Projects endpoint

Changelog Ploi Core

Version 2.4 released: https://roadmap.ploi.io/changelog/1-ploi-core-24

Worker servers

As of now, you may easily create worker servers for your PHP background tasks such as queues. The worker server is quite similar to the plain server, but comes with supervisor installed and you’re able to install "apps" on it. 

Apps are just like domains you'd install on a server, but without NGINX configuration, you can easily use SFTP or GIT to clone your applications on these servers and run the workers on the fly.

Site file backups

We're actively working on a fairly big refactor for site file backups, especially the 20-minute limit and error reporting. When the 20-minute limit is reached, it would always dump that same error that the limit has been reached which isn’t really helpful if you want to debug.

That’s why we’re going to be pushing a fair few of updates to the site file backups. Do note; as user, you’ll probably not notice much of this as it's mostly in the backend, but we do appreciate any feedback at this point so we can process that as well along with it, we’re planning on releasing this update this month.

New roadmap

Some of you might already notice, that we've moved to a fresh piece of software for our roadmap, which is open source as well. Visit the roadmap here, and while you're at it, if you have a suggestion don’t hesitate to submit that. Oh, and to make things easy, you can log in with your Ploi account ✅

Changelog Ploi

• [Added] Dry-run staging to production deployments
• [Added] Live deploy log staging to production
• [Added] Europe Milan (eu-south-1) to backup configurations AWS
• [Added] Tenants UI view, able to manage tenants from there (manage tab, site level)
• [Added] Worker server
• [Added] Ability to use web server templates in profile for your Ploi Core installation (if you have a license)
• [Changed] Raised workers for site statistics to process them faster
• [Changed] Roadmap switched: https://roadmap.ploi.io
• [Changed] Updated about page https://ploi.io/about
• [Changed] Removed NGINX Amplify installation for Ubuntu 22 (not supported yet)
• [Fixed] Bug with rotating file backups S3 driver
• [Fixed] When retrieving the PostgreSQL database configuration it would say it can’t find the configuration file
• [Fixed] Bug when using Laravel Octane 1-click, wouldn't consider aliases, it does that now
• [Fixed] When spawning the Laravel cronjobs from the Laravel tab, it wouldn't attach it to the site
• [Fixed] GitLab's oauth tokens expired after 2 hours, we made them renew automatically in deployments (this can still result in push errors if you use Statamic for example, we recommend setting up your repository using SSH instead of HTTPS)
• [Removed] Cookie banner (we don’t set any tracking cookies anymore)

Changelog Ploi API

• [Added] Tenants documentation (https://developers.ploi.io/tenants/list-tenants)
• [Added] Force SSL request just like in the panel (https://developers.ploi.io/certificates/create-certificate, https://roadmap.ploi.io/projects/6-api-level-requests/items/20-ssl-via-api-force-request-skip-dns-verification-site-level-request)

Changelog Ploi Core

• [Added] BRL currency
• [Added] PHP version on sites list
• [Added] Site aliases
• [Added] Ability to receive an email when a customer creates a site
• [Fixed] Synchronizing sites all used the wrong foreign ID

If you’re currently on an older version of Ubuntu, don’t worry, the end of life of those (and that’s why we only provide LTS) is over the year 2028. To give you a small example, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS end of life is the year 2028, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS end of life is the year 2030 and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS end of life is the year 2032, so plenty of time to provision a new server later. More on that here: https://ubuntu.com/blog/what-is-an-ubuntu-lts-release

From our perspective, we can’t recommend upgrading from an older Ubuntu version to a newer version within your existing server. The best is to provision a fresh server and migrate sites/data over slowly. This ensures you have a fresh server, all services run with the latest updates and you do not have to migrate/upgrade/update any packages to make it work.

Changelog Ploi

• [Added] Ubuntu 22 support 🎉
• [Added] Ability to manage Meilisearch keys (including permissions)
• [Added] Ability to edit notification channels in your profile
• [Added] Craft CMS logs tab
• [Added] Ability to specify path styled endpoint for S3 backups
• [Added] Laravel Horizon tab & card (https://ploi.io/documentation/domains/how-do-i-configure-laravel-horizon-statistics-in-ploi)
• [Added] schedule:list button to Laravel tab
• [Added] Active label to IP lock section in security tab from your profile to see which lock is being used at the current time
• [Added] {COMMIT_AUTHOR} deploy script variable to get the name of the author of the deployed commit
• [Added] Banner for Russian users and how to manage their payments
• [Added] Site level cronjobs
• [Added] When using global search, you may now also search for system users for a site
• [Changed] Database backups occur now earlier in the night when selected nightly interval
• [Improved] Gitlab’s deeper project selector when cloning or updating the repository is now recursive
• [Improved] Site monitoring is now much more stable and reliable
• [Improved] Server build speeds, we now poll within a minute to see whether the server is ready from the server provider to be installed, this increases the build time a lot (this only counts for server provider installations)
• [Improved] Unable to proxy a wildcard record for Cloudflare in DNS tab
• [Improved] Validation for synchronized deployments now validates properly
• [Improved] Site file backups, now using the complete relative path to the zip for more consistency
• [Fixed] Backup pagination when pausing/unpausing backups
• [Fixed] All team permissions selectable are now correct in create & edit forms
• [Fixed] When spawning a NodeJS server with supervisor, the wrong system user would spawn the process, respawning solves this
• [Fixed] When configuring a site file backup with SFTP and SSH key, it would display the wrong SSH key if a custom system user was used

Changelog API

• [Added] Ability to create servers without passing a name (gets generated automatically)
• [Added] IP’s endpoint (https://developers.ploi.io/getting-started/ip-addresses)
• [Added] Laravel Horizon statistics endpoint (https://developers.ploi.io/sites/laravel-horizon-statistics)
• [Added] Modify site’s NGINX configuration file (https://developers.ploi.io/sites/get-nginx-configuration)
• [Improved] Tenants validation when adding new ones (more strict)

Mobile app update

We’ve revamped the app a lot, it was long due since release and small releases but finally, we’re proud to do one of the bigger releases once again. Android is currently already available and Apple is currently reviewing our submitted build.

One of the significant updates to the app is Biometrics, allowing you to protect the app with Face ID / Touch ID / Fingerprint Sensor / Face recognition. Be sure to try it out!

• iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ploi/id1556215510
• Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.ploi.app

Laravel logs tab

Laravel lovers unite! We’ve always felt reading Laravel logs is a pain (because you had to login into SSH). That’s why we added this beautiful logs view to the Laravel tab, where you can read all the log files from your Laravel application.

Whitelist IP addresses for API tokens

Another security update besides the biometric update in the mobile app, we’ve also gone ahead and added the ability to whitelist IPs per API token. This will improve security significantly when using the Ploi API.

That’s it?

No, besides these updates we have a packed change log again. As well as for the app, Ploi itself, the API and Ploi Core. We have also been very busy in January with bug fixing in the background, doing responsive fixes, and rewriting our tests.

Bugfixing

It is good to know that our changelogs are handwritten and do not always contain every piece of change in our system, some changes are too small to document so we just skip them entirely. Being said, we’ve focused a lot on bug fixing reported from our discord in the roadmap. Most is background stuff that you can’t see, but good progress has been made!

Responsive

We’ve had a few reports from users via support or discord telling us a few things were ‘off’ when using the responsive version of the Ploi panel. We’re actively working on that and have already made significant changes. 

Tests

Back in 2017 when we started with Ploi, its tests grew fairly slowly with it. Until 2021 December it had 854 tests with decent coverage. In January 2022 we’ve decided to drop all the PHPUnit tests we had, and start fresh in PestPHP. As you can imagine, this is a time-consuming task to rewrite 854 tests from scratch. So why do it?

2 reasons:

• We want to have a higher coverage of our own written code to ensure every piece of route, class, function, service, util and so on is tested thoroughly.
• We want to raise our code quality, by rewriting our tests, we’re also re-evaluating our code and are able to decide whether something needs a refactor, and then get a fresh test.

Up until now with rewriting to PestPHP tests, we’re at 117 tests with 365 assertions. In future news posts, we’ll keep you informed about our progression!

Changelog App

• [Added] Server insights
• [Added] PHP 8.1 option when installing a server
• [Added] Biometrics (Face ID/Touch ID/Fingerprint) authentication for extra security
• [Added] Ability to reload PHP OPcache (server level, PHP tab)
• [Updated] Cleaned a lot of code, reduced app size
• [Updated] Core versions that improve performance
• [Updated] Status tab when a service has the right status, disable the correct buttons (stop/restart/start)
• [Updated] Reduced header size which allows more room for data & lists
• [Updated] Removed search in the header and added searches in overviews
• [Updated] Removed number of SSH keys in the dashboard (why did we have this there anyway?)
• [Fixed] Status indicator pulsating margins

Changelog Ploi

• [Added] Staging production sites now have deploy script variables as well
• [Added] Ability to install Amplify for Ubuntu 20 as well
• [Added] Ability to select branches from a dropdown when installing a GIT repository
• [Added] A new deploy script variable {DO_NOT_NOTIFY} is now available to skip notifications
• [Added] When using the Ploi Raycast extension, log items will show a badge that it’s been performed through Raycast
• [Added] Ability to restart a daemon via a deploy script with {RESTART_DAEMON 1} (where 1 is the ID of your daemon)
• [Added] https://ploi.shop
• [Added] Ability to whitelist IP addresses for API tokens
• [Updated] Responsive, still not there but we’ve come a long way
• [Updated] New invoice design
• [Updated] Automatic incident reporting for status pages now use the label if entered for a server, instead of the name
• [Updated] Nextcloud 1-click installer to version 23
• [Fixed] Several bugfixes for database backups have been done
• [Fixed] Refreshing DigitalOcean’s plan would not grab them all (API pagination issue)
• [Fixed] Custom interval for cronjobs when using @reboot is now allowed
• [Fixed] MeiliSearch client now uses bearer token to communicate with your meilisearch server
• [Fixed] When using Google Drive backups and the rotation, we didn’t add the supportsAllDrives flag so shared drive rotation didn’t work, fixed now
• [Released] Raycast Ploi extension is now available (https://www.raycast.com/Cannonball/ploi)

Changelog API

• [Added] Rate limiting per plan (https://developers.ploi.io/getting-started/rate-limiting)
• [Added] Description in HTML available now as well (https://developers.ploi.io/insights/detail-insight)
• [Added] Ability to update root domain via API (https://developers.ploi.io/sites/update-site)
• [Added] Ability to whitelist IP addresses for API tokens

Changelog Ploi Core

• [Added] Ability to rotate system logs
• [Added] Ability to remove the logo
• [Added] Ability for your users to revoke credit card
• [Added] Favicon when the logo is uploaded
• [Added] Ability to show renewal date for customers
• [Added] Ability to select a database type for customer server creations
• [Fixed] DNS records would not always display properly
• [Upgraded] TailwindCSS 2 > 3

• Release a mobile app
• Added a bunch of awesome 1-click installers
• 1-click enable a Laravel Octane application
• A fresh frontend design
• Added a marketplace for users to share their knowledge
• Easily deploy your NodeJS applications
• Server insights help you discover potential issues in your server
• Welcomed a new partnership with Katapult server provider
• Ploi Core became a 1-time payment product

• [Added] 1-click install NGINX Amplify
• [Added] New server insight (open package & security updates)
• [Added] Forced to remove the scrollbars on the UI, especially for windows devices
• [Added] Ability to see where a log item came from (Ploi Core, Ploi API, Mobile App)
• [Added] You may now enter your VAT number to your profile without getting in touch with support to get verified
• [Added] PHP 8.1 support
• [Added] Ability to relate databases to sites (for more clarity as to which site is using which database)
• [Added] Ploi will now tell you about the —no-dev flag for composer you can add in your deploy script (more tips: https://ploi.io/documentation/deployment/composer-installation-tips)
• [Added] Ability to specify an environment file when creating a daemon
• [Updated] Email server list of accounts now shows 200 email accounts
• [Updated] Made the environment edit window bigger
• [Updated] Branding kit & stickers (https://ploi.io/branding)
• [Fixed] Small issue with colors in the deploy log, you might not notice this, but it’s fixed
• [Fixed] Show error when max upload size is changed and not correct entered
• [Fixed] DNS record issue when using TXT & Cloudflare, resolved now
• [Fixed] When changing the PHP version while having tenants to that domain, those tenants will now also shift the PHP version
• [Fixed] Issue with team members and elastic search servers in regards to saving

• [Added] Server insights to API (https://developers.ploi.io/insights/list-insights)
• [Added] Tenants feature documented properly now (https://developers.ploi.io/tenants/list-tenants)
• [Added] Ability to set project_type when creating a site (https://developers.ploi.io/sites/create-site)

• [Added] Katapult server provider
• [Added] Support for MariaDB 10.6 (ubuntu 20) * PostgreSQL 14
• [Added] Ability to delete ignored insights
• [Added] Ability to have servers in status pages collapsed/uncollapsed by default
• [Added] New Hetzner datacenter (Ashburn)
• [Added] Ability to restart your NodeJS application server after deployment (checkbox in the settings tab)
• [Added] Added timestamp to .sql file backups
• [Added] Ability to press CMD/CTRL + S to save inside deploy script
• [Updated] Made several modals with the editor inside larger (a remake of all the modals is coming very soon)
• [Fixed] Bug for spawning a NodeJS server button loading state (kept being disabled)
• [Fixed] Several server insights bugs
• [Fixed] A bug in Hetzner DNS that wouldn’t save a record when creating a new one
• [Fixed] Pagination inside backups overview when in the files tab
• [Fixed] An issue when you changed the domain, the available queue workers would also update all sub-domain’s queue workers, this behavior is fixed now
• [Fixed] Server service status tab would not reflect new notification channels when just added, it does now
• [Fixed] Overflow issue with the collapsed sidebar on the left when a small window was being used

Server insights is a great feature by Ploi that allows you to get help with optimizations. A good example could be the max_children being reached for PHP. Ploi will help you discover these errors and help you fix these.

•  PHP max_children reached, per PHP version and per pool
•  Check if supervisor is running without using it
•  Check if Node could use an LTS update
•  Check if the system clock is in sync
•  Check if the load average is high for a longer period of time
•  Check if the MySQL/MariaDB binlogs are growing and filling up your disk space

There is nothing more annoying to discover one of your services isn’t running. This is why we introduced the ability to attach notification channels per-service. Easily get notified through one of your favorite notification channels about the status of your service.

• [Added] New editor in Ploi monaco has been added
• [Added] Ability to select a script as default deploy script
• [Added] Webhook to deploy staging to production site (visible in production site)
• [Added] When a server is unreachable, it now also shows a list of sites that are affected
• [Added] Team member administration now shows truncated email addresses for clarity
• [Added] Live deploy log (and log items) should now be colorized
• [Added] Ability to attach notifications to service statuses so you get notified when a service like NGINX goes down
• [Added] New York location for UpCloud server provider
• [Added] Ability to specify task-workers for Laravel Octane when using the swoole driver
• [Updated] UpCloud server integration to use the latest API & SSH keys authentication method for more security
• [Updated] Health URL check delay from 5 seconds to 10 seconds after deployment
• [Updated] NodeJS 14 is now the default (coming from 12), upgrade article: https://ploi.io/documentation/server/how-to-upgrade-node-12-to-node-14
• [Fixed] Gitlab subgroups repository installation is now working: https://roadmap.ploi.io/b/site-level-requests/support-sub-levels-in-git-repositories/
• [Fixed] Gitlab repository list now also shows the organization and/or attached repositories
• [Fixed] Do not allow the " character in SSH keys (breaks SSH config)
• [Fixed] Updated minio server type to the latest variables (deprecated vars were used)
• [Fixed] Issue with setting default site template when uninstall repository, fixed now
• [Fixed] "Ploi" in "Ploi" (modal) issue when session expired and you clicked a link (for anyone else that’s using InertiaJS: https://twitter.com/dennis_smink/status/1443502869135740928)
• [Fixed] SSL label tooltip would not be visible for the first site, fixed now
• [Fixed] Autocomplete fields on the login, register & password forget pages for password managers
• [Fixed] When altering php max execution time other variables would possibly get touched as well

• [Added] Ability to enable/block robots via api (https://developers.ploi.io/sites/robot-access)
• [Added] Ability to install ploi monitoring when creating a server on the fly (if your subscription allows this) (https://developers.ploi.io/servers/create-server

• [Added] NodeJS support
• [Added] Deploy script variable {COMMIT_HASH} which returns the commit hash
• [Added] Ability to transfer servers to another Ploi account
• [Added] Ability to attach notifications for site uptime monitors
• [Added] Ability to clone sites on the same server
• [Added] Ability to force team members to use 2FA or IP lock login features
• [Added] New default site template (https://github.com/ploi-deploy/template)
• [Added] Ability to toggle file backup status in backups overview
• [Added] Ability to limit sites per team, per member and per server
• [Added] Alex (https://ploi.io/about)
• [Added] Ability to copy custom commands for Laravel tab to other sites
• [Added] Ability to view logs per deployment (message is clickable)
• [Added] When deploy script is "dirty", and you press deploy, it will now automatically save
• [Added] When changing a site’s domain and a file backup has been setup, that file backup will now also update domain
• [Added] Ability to separate sites with projects just like you could with servers
• [Added] Sites in server will now show tooltip if aliases are present when you hover on domain
• [Added] Laravel queue tab now has backoff and memory input to be configured
• [Added] Ability to specify a port for SFTP backups in the host
• [Added] Animated favicon when deploying (indicating status)
• [Added] Pricing page now has a yearly checkbox for pricing with discount (https://ploi.io/pricing)
• [Added] MongoDB service to status list so it will be visible in status tab
• [Fixed] Using rollback feature when site system user is different would still use default ploi user
• [Fixed] Few responsive fixes
• [Fixed] Few darkmode fixes
• [Fixed] Automatic system user creation and www domains are now excluding www
• [Fixed] Dropbox backups with specific path would fail upon rotating, this is fixed now
• [Fixed] Hetzner DNS records had some issues, in particular with MX records, resolved now

• [New] Fresh landingpage https://ploi-core.io
• [Added] Ability for users to install custom certificates
• [Added] Ability for admins to synchronize existing sites
• [Added] Ability for admins to synchronize all sites & servers
• [Added] Autofocus to login page
• [Added] Ability to setup terms of service and privacy policy for users to accept
• [Added] Ability for admins to see Horizon status
• [Added] Ability for admins to see how many regions & plans a provider has when synchronizing
• [Added] Ability for admins to select per providers which regions and plans should be available
• [Fixed] Permission fix for server updating

• [Added] Ability to install custom certificate via API (https://developers.ploi.io/certificates/create-certificate)
• [Added] Ability to toggle quick deploy (https://developers.ploi.io/repositories/toggle-quick-deploy)

• [Added] PostgreSQL 13 support
• [Added] Elasticsearch server type (https://ploi.io/features/elasticsearch-server)
• [Added] Ability to set your own custom template when creating new sites (https://ploi.io/documentation/domains/how-do-i-set-my-own-default-template)
• [Added] Ability to use 1-click marketplace scripts for clean sites
• [Added] Warsaw region to UpCloud regions
• [Added] Sydney region to UpCloud regions
• [Added] {CLEAR_NEW_RELEASE} deploy script variable for zero downtime deployments
• [Added] Server logs now show which user executed that task
• [Added] Supervisor logs to logs tab
• [Added] Ability to transfer server (https://ploi.io/documentation/server/how-do-i-transfer-a-server-to-another-account)
• [Added] A new "Setup" tab for Laravel has been added so you can easily create the cronjob & horizon daemon
• [Added] Laravel tab now also shows for Statamic projects
• [Added] Ability to specify a folder inside dropbox backups
• [Improved] Backups overview when creating backups the right tab is now selected
• [Improved] A lot of darkmode issues have been resolved
• [Improved] Matomo 1-click installer now does proper modifications to make it a lot more secure
• [Improved] If a new team member signs up and gets attached to a team, the trial notification bar at the top gets removed now
• [Improved] Service statuses tab is now sorted by name
• [Fixed] Source for zero downtime deployment was not saved properly
• [Fixed] Saving custom Laravel commands sometimes deleted the wrong command, fixed now
• [Fixed] Changing the PHP max execution time in Ploi was bugged, this is resolved now
• [Fixed] Team users could not use the file explorer if that was allowed, this is resolved now

• [Added] Ability to duplicate database via API (https://developers.ploi.io/databases/duplicate-database)

• [Changed] Pricing is now €149 ($180) as a 1 time payment for 1 year updates & support (you will still need a Unlimited subscription with Ploi)

Marketplace Screenshot

• Webserver templates

• Scripts

• Deployment scripts

• 1-click installation scripts

• [Added] Marketplace for scripts, 1-click installs, webserver templates & deploy scripts

• [Added] DigitalOcean Spaces driver for backup support

• [Added] Custom S3 driver for backup support (both databases and site file backups)

• [Added] Ability to login with Gitlab

• [Added] Load balancer SSL certificates can now be aliased as well

• [Added] Watch option flag for Laravel Octane

• [Added] New "queue:retry all" button to Laravel tab

• [Added] New log type added in server level under logs tab: UFW logs

• [Added] Ability for dropbox backups to backup in sub-folders

• [Added] Database name to confirm delete modal has been added to make sure you’re deleting the right one

• [Updated] Server queue log viewing is now rotated so you alway see latest first

• [Updated] Commits tab

• [Updated] Global search now has a max height with scrolling and sticky headers

• [Fixed] Cronjob under different user

• [Fixed] oAuth scopes for Gitlab were wrong (not enough permissions), have been added now

• [Fixed] Server monitoring times was in wrong timezone, now uses user setup timezone

• [Added] Brand spanking new design 😍
• [Added] Laravel Octane is now available for production use
• [Added] Ability to configure database backups with new intervals weekly & monthly
• [Added] Label to database overview with counter of how many database backups there's configured
• [Added] Improved cron expression validator to prevent user errors
• [Added] Ability to view average deploy time
• [Added] Ability to lock your account to an IP address including a label
• [Added] Ability to suspend and resume websites
• [Added] Support for Github emoji’s in recent deployments log
• [Added] Ability to disable robots for status pages
• [Added] Team servers now also get shown on the servers overview for team members
• [Added] Server name now shows in monitoring limit emails in the content
• [Added] When using global search it now shows server label after site names (handy if you have duplicate sites)
• [Added] Ability to select workspaces when installing a GIT project from Bitbucket 
• [Added] You now need to enter your password again if you want to visit Profile -> Security for improved security
• [Added] New security page (https://ploi.io/security)
• [Added] We now notify you about expiring API tokens in time
• [Added] Recent deployments now also work for non-integration GIT providers 
• [Added] Documentation articles in frontend now also show latest updated date
• [Added] Ability to install WP CLI with 1-click in the servers -> manage tab
• [Improved] We now default to PHP 8.0 when installing a new server
• [Improved] Git cloning repositories now has way better error handling if cloning fails
• [Fixed] Encoding issue for live deploy log failed when mallformed characters were found
• [Fixed] When using staging to production feature with a 1-click installer, project type was not set for production site, this is resolved now
• [Updated] Using TW dark mode feature now instead of a 3rd party package
• [Updated] Server monitoring statistics are now saved in a redis instance for better speed
• [Updated] Increased the processing time for staging to production sites

• [Added] Ability to suspend & resume websites (https://developers.ploi.io/sites/suspend-site)
• [Fixed] Network rule type parameter was not accepted, it is now (tcp or udp) (https://developers.ploi.io/network-rules/create-network-rule)

You have the ability to save the settings desired to your needs and spawn an Octane server on the fly. We’ll also show you the output log live. You can easily enable Octane for new sites, but also for existing sites.

When enabling, Ploi will switch from FPM to Octane (either Roadrunner or Swoole) and when you disable it will automatically switch back to FPM, so when changing Ploi will always keep your site online.

Do note that during this news item, Laravel Octane is still in beta and we do not recommend running it on a production website.

We've setup a real simple Github repository for you to give it a try: https://github.com/ploi-deploy/laravel-octane-test, you'll need at least Laravel Octane 0.3.1 or higher in your Laravel installation.

If you run into any issues or have any feedback please let us know!

Changelog

• [Added] Laravel Octane is now available through the Laravel tab
• [Added] Blue alert for when creating a backup and there's no DB's
• [Added] Ability to see what last API token usage was
• [Added] New starter kits are now available for Statamic
• [Added] Ability to exclude folders/files for site file backups
• [Added] Ability to edit site file backups
• [Updated] Cloudflare config for NGINX added 2 new IP addresses
• [Fixed] Invoice with a long billing address on one line would not break on new line, this is resolved
• [Fixed] Cloudflare DNS proxy would be disabled when you edit the record, solved now

Changelog Ploi API

• [Added] Ability to install Statamic via the API (https://developers.ploi.io/apps/install-statamic)
• [Added] Ability to provide a webhook_url for server creations
• [Updated] Return ok response when updating .env file via API

• Statamic 💜
• Craft CMS ❤️
• Matomo 💚

• [Added] 1-click Statamic installer ✨
• [Added] 1-click Craft CMS installer ✨
• [Added] 1-click Matomo installer ✨
• [Added] Account IP lock feature ✨
• [Added] Whole new design for confirmation alerts
• [Added] New deploy script suggestions for Statamic projects
• [Added] Drop blur for modals & confirmation modals
• [Added] Invoice link to subscription page
• [Added] New "Users" tab in databases tab to assign database users to other databases
• [Added] Laravel Octane deploy script suggestion to the deploy script suggestor
• [Changed] DigitalOcean plans now display in sub groups to provide more readability
• [Changed] Branch "master" now defaults to "main" for Github projects
• [Fixed] Creating new folders & files in file explorer may now contain a - character
• [Fixed] Deleting network rule with protocol from specific IP address wouldn’t delete properly
• [Fixed] AWS database backup rotation now uses the correct bucket
• [Fixed] Some server providers do not allow underscores in server names, we updated our validation accordingly
• [Started] Preparations for Laravel Octane & Swoole have been started… 👀

• iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ploi/id1556215510
• Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.ploi.app

• [Added] Mobile app now available! (https://ploi.io/features/app)
• [Added] Ability to bulk assign notifications
• [Added] API tokens are now expanded with permissions per entity subject
• [Added] Amazon T3 plans available now
• [Added] Discord link to footer frontend
• [Added] Ploi now lets you know if debug mode is on from your Laravel app
• [Added] Statamic projects are now much better supported (specific Statamic tab available)
• [Added] Ability to enable DigitalOcean backups upon server creation
• [Added] Site details to settings tab in site level (ID, creation)
• [Added] Ability to specify a channel when using slack notifications
• [Added] Ability to read letsencrypt log in panel (from /var/log/letsencrypt/letsencrypt)
• [Added] Ploi now allows ecdsa-sha2-nistp256 SSH key types
• [Added] Ability to change timezones
• [Added/Fixed] Ploi now forces CLI version for PHP when installing a new server
• [Added] SSH keys for users now get correct comments behind them
• [Updated] All new confirm modals over the whole ploi system now (dropped alertify)
• [Fixed] Quick deploy bugged out sometimes with wrong response errors, this has now been solved
• [Fixed] When using email server and you rebooted, it would not work anymore because redis didn't start, solved now
• [Fixed] Sites filter on server show was broken, works now
• [Fixed] On small screens the sidebars left (collapsed and open) would not be scrollable, this is scrollable now
• [Fixed] Network rule creation with multiple ports from a specific IP address was not possible, it is now
• [Started] Working on new 1-click installers.. sssssshh..

• [Added] GBP currency
• [Fixed] Register fix for when you had a empty or false default package setting for open registrations

• [Added] Ability to restart server via API (https://developers.ploi.io/servers/restart-server)

• [Added] Ability to rotate AWS site file backups
• [Added] Ability to synchronize databases to Ploi that have been created outside of Ploi
• [Added] Database backup failures are now notified via email as default
• [Added] Ability to add favicon to status pages
• [Added] Global backup overview to manage your database & site file backups more easily
• [Added] New filter on site overview to see which sites have backups or not
• [Added] Ability to set a redis server password
• [Added] Ability for team members to create servers with the new permission
• [Added] Ability to select a SSH key from your profile to provision to your server
• [Added] Projects overview now shows how much servers there are inside that project
• [Added] Ability to select a toast notification position in your profile
• [Added] Ability to select a default server provider so you need less clicks upon server creation
• [Added] Ability to change to a custom repository when changing the repository remote
• [Added] GIF image added to the email testing notification
• [Added] Linode servers now get the label/server name passed in properly to reflect in Linode itself
• [Added] Ability to create sites via sites overview
• [Improved] A lot of dark mode improvements!
• [Improved] Health URL check is now much smarter
• [Improved] SSL icon on sites overview now has a nice tooltip with more information about the certificate
• [Improved] phpMyAdmin installation is now done differently (not using APT anymore, using a direct download)
• [Improved] General grammar errors
• [Improved] Interactive command validation, added php artisan wink:migrate check for missing —force flag
• [Improved] Team invite link is now valid for 24 hours, instead of 1 hour
• [Updated] SV language (https://github.com/ploi-deploy/ploi-translations/pull/20)
• [Updated] Load balancers now use HTTP2 version forced
• [Fixed] Team members couldn't edit DNS, now they can
• [Fixed] DNS key for Hetzner & TransIP would be mixed with validation reporting, is now fixed
• [Fixed] Composer version changing didn't work properly (between version 1 & 2), this is now fixed
• [Prepared] Preparations for PHP 8.1 have been started

• [Changed] Pricing changed to a definitive price of 99€ (125$) per month

• [Added] Ability to set a rule type upon creation, also added on index (https://developers.ploi.io/network-rules/create-network-rule)
• [Added] You may now also pass in a description that gets reflected to the notes section in settings tab (https://developers.ploi.io/servers/create-server)

• Synchronized deployments - https://ploi.io/news/synchronized-deployments
• AWS S3 backups - https://ploi.io/news/aws-s3-database-backups-have-arrived
• Staging to production - https://ploi.io/news/staging-to-production-sites-feature-is-live
• Restore database backups & duplicating - https://ploi.io/news/restore-database-backups-duplicating-them
• Service status tab - https://ploi.io/news/service-status-tab
• FastCGI cache - https://ploi.io/news/fastcgi-cache-is-now-available
• Brand new panel design released - https://ploi.io/news/brace-yourself-weve-just-stepped-up-our-game
• Let’s Encrypt wildcard support - https://ploi.io/news/letsencrypt-wildcard-support-linode-partnership
• Linode partnership - https://ploi.io/news/letsencrypt-wildcard-support-linode-partnership
• Cloudflare detailed statistics & news feed - https://ploi.io/news/cloudflare-detailed-statistics-news-feed
• Dark mode - https://ploi.io/news/introducing-dark-mode
• Testing domains - https://ploi.io/news/testing-domains-rolling-back-deployments
• Rollback deployments - https://ploi.io/news/testing-domains-rolling-back-deployments
• Meilisearch server type - https://ploi.io/news/meilisearch-server-support-ploi-core-is-released
• Ploi Core released - https://ploi.io/news/meilisearch-server-support-ploi-core-is-released
• Webserver templates - https://ploi.io/news/webserver-templates-composer-2-is-out
• Added PHP 8.0 - https://ploi.io/news/php-80-available-wordpress-qol-feedback

• [Improved] SSL icon after site name with tooltip (https://twitter.com/ploi_deploy/status/1336612577284124672)
• [Added] Label to profile if your VAT is verified
• [Added] Ability to star servers (https://twitter.com/ploi_deploy/status/1339509290793635841)
• [Added] Ability to star sites
• [Added] Ability to pause corncobs
• [Added] Ability to sort sites in your server (https://twitter.com/ploi_deploy/status/1339551935255461892)
• [Fixed] Deployments are now in the correct timezone
• [Fixed] Create time had wrong meta title
• [Fixed] Site cloning feature keyscan host failures
• [Fixed] Queue worker log was looking inside wrong directory when custom system user
• [Fixed] General quick deploy fixes, should be a lot less buggy now
• [Fixed] Issue when creating crontab as root user, wrong log directory
• [Updated] Turkish language (https://github.com/ploi-deploy/ploi-translations/pull/17)

• [Added] PHP 8.0 officially 🥳
• [Added] Webserver templates
• [Added] Max connection settings for load balancers available
• [Added] {COMMIT_MESSAGE} deploy script variable is now available
• [Added] PHP CLI aliases for quick CLI versions (php56, php70, etc)
• [Added] Ability to add description to network rules
• [Added] Ability to see the source of a deployment (e.g. button, API, quick deploy, web hook, synced)
• [Added] Ability to select per SSH key in your profile if they need to be pushed to newly created servers
• [Added] Ability to disable robots for a site (settings tab site level)
• [Added] In SSL tab, you may now 1-click add all the added aliases easily to request SSL certificates
• [Added] In server providers tab (profile level) you may now see how many servers are attached to that server provider
• [Added] Turkish language
• [Improved] Health checker now checks from 4 locations after deployment, to see reachability and response time ✨
• [Fixed] Quick deploy received several fixes to improve stability
• [Fixed] Currency symbol in invoices
• [Fixed] Bugfix in social login on register page
• [Fixed] Render type for automatic order PDF has changed because unreadability for specific tools
• [Fixed] General design fixes, such as border radius not visible in dark mode and more

• [Added] Ability to isolate sites per (Ploi Core) user & site
• [Added] Currencies: NOK, AUD, CAD
• [Added] Ability to specify per user if a account password is needed to get FTP password
• [Added] Default language setting
• [Added] Sorting in billing for packages
• [Added] Coupon feature in billing
• [Added] Ability to create alert messages for your users
• [Added] Cloudflare DNS support
• [Added] Theme support (https://docs.ploi-core.io/theme/create-your-own-theme)
• [Added] Ability to upload your own logo
• [Fixed] Norwegian language key was wrong

• [Added] Ability to enable testing domain via API (https://developers.ploi.io/sites/enable-test-domain)
• [Added] Ability to view full logs
• [Added] Ability to request SSL for load balancers via API (https://developers.ploi.io/load-balancers/request-certificate-for-domain)
• [Added] Health URL statistics comes with site if it has this data

You can select the webserver template when pressing the "Advanced" button upon creating a site, in there you'll find a dropdown containing all your created webserver template configurations.

• [Released] Webserver templates ✨
• [Added] Easy copy to clipboard button when creating API keys
• [Added] TransIP as DNS provider
• [Added] Ability to see the deployment time per deployment in deployments card
• [Added] Status indicators now have pulsing background to make more clear something is going on
• [Added] French language
• [Added] Polish language
• [Added] Plain server type (https://ploi.io/features/plain-server)
• [Added] {DATE} deploy script variable to represent the date deployed
• [Added] When searching, automatically select the first result to make click-through faster
• [Added] Ability to add a label to your server inside status pages
• [Added] Ability to disable keyboard shortcuts (https://ploi.io/profile/settings)
• [Added] Ability to install PHP 8.0 RC (BETA)
• [Added] Ability to specify custom services in status tab
• [Added] Ability to create readonly database users
• [Added] Ability to specify bind address inside manage tab on server level incase you serve your database on another address for backups
• [Added] Madrid location for UpCloud provider
• [Added] Ability to set default site sorting in your profile settings
• [Added] Ability to define a table prefix when 1-click installing WordPress
• [Changed] Dark/light mode icon to a better suitable icon
• [Fixed] Properly deleting SSH keys from user profile
• [Fixed] Creating a site with system user as team user would not create the automatic system user
• [Fixed] FTP backups sometimes gave a curl 530 error
• [Fixed] Issue with API rate limiting, it was using a wrong signature key per request which has now been resolved
• [Fixed] Sorting sites by domain was not working
• [Fixed] Issue with dark mode and cronjob user not being visible
• [Updated] Nextcloud 1-click install version 19 to 20

• [Added] Ability to specify a default HTML template in ploi.io (index.html) to make the white label experience even better
• [Added] Stripe support to allow billing (https://docs.ploi-core.io/digging-deeper/using-stripe)
• [Added] Ability as admin to look into application logs
• [Added] Server management, users can now provision servers via your panel
• [Added] Danish language
• [Added] Norwegian language
• [Added] Ability to disable keyboard shortcuts
• [Improved] The package permissions have now greatly improved
• [Fixed] MariaDB is now also supported

• [Added] Ability to manage SSH keys on a server (https://developers.ploi.io/ssh-keys/list-ssh-keys)

• [Released] Ploi Core 🎉  https://ploi-core.io
• [Added] MeiliSearch server type support (https://ploi.io/features/meilisearch-server)
• [Added] Ability to edit PHP FPM pools
• [Added] More DNS providers added, DigitalOcean, Linode & Hetzner (Cloudflare is already supported)
• [Added] Rocket.chat notifications support
• [Added] CTRL/CMD+S command for saving deploy script easily and fast
• [Added] Editing daemons allow directory changes
• [Added] More filters and information on the sites overview page
• [Added] Ability to copy system user name on sites index in server
• [Changed] Install certbot using snap now and renew hook is now using a dedicated script
• [Changed] Used mousetrap library for keyboard shortcuts for wider browser support
• [Fixed] Laravel tab down message removed as Laravel 8 does not support this anymore
• [Fixed] Google Drive shared drive backups were not working, they are now
• [Fixed] Input types on profile password page were normal inputs, changed to password type
• [Fixed] AWS Site file backups were not running properly, this has been resolved now
• [Fixed] MySQL dumps now use UTF8 encoding enforced so emoji's come in backups as well

• [Added] Ability to specify a hostname & SSL for phpMyAdmin

• [Added] Global database backup configurations

• [Added] Global file backup configurations

• [Added] Restore database backups from AWS support

• [Added] Ability to deny specific rules in networking

• [Added] Quick discord invite link (https://ploi.io/discord)

• [Added] Deploy notifications are now also triggered when a deploy fails

• [Added] Ability to restart server

• [Added] Ability to edit php.ini per version in PHP tab

• [Added] Ability to define weight and backup server in load balancer settings

• [Added] Status tab to load balancers

• [Re-Added] Ability to view the script output when running scripts on servers directly on the same page

• [Fixed] When adding a new SSH key, provisioning to selected servers didn't work properly

• [Fixed] Issue for file backups where large portions of zipping output was saved, this is useless and has been removed

• [Fixed] Monitoring screenshot frontend was missing

• [Fixed] Issue in load balancer settings when a variable was not set

• [Fixed] Issue where team members where unable to do management with FastCGI cache

Changelog API

• [Added] OPcache routes to API - https://developers.ploi.io/php/refresh-opcache

• [Added] Installed PHP versions route - https://developers.ploi.io/php/installed-php-versions

• [Added] FastCGI routes to API - https://developers.ploi.io/fastcgi-cache/enable-fastcgi-cache

• [Upcoming] White label: https://ploi-core.io
• [Added] Hetzner Let’s Encrypt wildcard support
• [Added] Ability to add commands (small script) when rolling back deployments
• [Re-added] Ability to remove files in file explorer
• [Improved] Rate limiting on specific actions now take the actual URL into consideration
• [Improved] FAQ on pricing page: https://ploi.io/pricing
• [Improved] Newly created system users now default to sudo false
• [Fixed] DB backups with zip password protection could not contain a ‘&’ character, validation is updated
• [Fixed] Installation failures for servers that had MariaDB
• [Fixed] Quick deploy toggle was also showing for non supported GIT drivers, this should not happen
• [Fixed] PHP version button on site level was not indicating which version it was running, it is now

No problem, we've got your back now. You can now easily 1-click enable a testing domain for your site in Ploi so you can easily view the website without any DNS setup. Under the hood we utilize the Cloudflare API to create a DNS record in the ploi.link domain.

This makes a great feature because you're able to quickly switch back to a previous version if something didn't go right.

At this time, we keep track of the latest 5 deployments, so you're able to go back 5 deployments in total. If you pushed a new fix to your repository, you can just click the original deploy button and it will pull in the latest changes.

• [Added] Testing domains
• [Added] Rollback deployments
• [Added] Route 53 support for Let’s Encrypt wildcard domains
• [Added] Microsoft teams notifications support
• [Added] Path label to SSL certificates to see where the certificate is stored
• [Added] PostgreSQL to service status list (status tab)
• [Added] Support for CIDR firewall rules (10.0.0.0/24) (https://roadmap.ploi.io/b/panel-requests/allow-firewall-rule-creation-with-cidr/)
• [Added] Support for daemon directory input (https://roadmap.ploi.io/b/server-level-requests/daemon-directory-input)
• [Re-added] Cloning sites (currently only for sites using ploi user)
• [Updated] Darkmode progress & tweaks
• [Updated] File explorer UI has been revamped completely
• [Updated] Terms & privacy policy updated (https://ploi.io/terms, https://ploi.io/privacy)
• [Fixed] Quick deploy toggle had issues with enabling/disabling
• [Fixed] Editing database config file while postgresql installed wouldn’t be able to find the config file
• [Fixed] When deleting the last domain alias, it wouldn't allow you, fixed validation for this

• [Added] Spanish language (ES) (https://github.com/ploi-deploy/ploi-translations/commit/448a88763d17697cf18177fb21252294cff560a6)
• [Updated] German language (DE) (https://github.com/ploi-deploy/ploi-translations/pull/13)

• [Added] Rollback a deployment - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgq6J3jGiaE

Switching mode is fairly easy, just press the moon at the top right to switch forth and back. You can also head over to your profile to select a third option: "automatic". This will use your browsers preference, if it is in dark mode, Ploi will come along with your preference automatically.

• [Added] Dark mode ? ?
• [Added] Amazon T3 plans
• [Added] Ability to read key & CSR for certificate requests
• [Added] Security updates label on server index will only show if there are security updates to do
• [Changed] Laravel tab improvements
• [Updated] Nextcloud version 19 & installation improvements
• [Fixed] PHP tab had some issues when switching PHP version, is now being picked up correctly
• [Fixed] Added fallback for LE certificates if any old traces where left
• [Fixed] PostgreSQL 12 is now being installed for Ubuntu 20
• [Improved] Subscription page with features you gain/loose when upgrading/downgrading
• [Improved] Responsive panel design
• [Started] Development has started on backup configurations per profile (so you can easily select a configuration if you want to backup a DB or site) - https://roadmap.ploi.io/b/panel-requests/global-backup-configuration

• [Updated] German language (DE) (https://github.com/ploi-deploy/ploi-translations/pull/12)

• [Added] Ability to manage domain aliases (https://developers.ploi.io/aliases/list-aliases)
• [Added] Ability to specify if a system user should have sudo or not (https://developers.ploi.io/system-users/create-system-user)

• [Added] Load balancing video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KxGUv5vZy4
• [Added] Let’s Encrypt video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYGNH4CAkNI

It is now possible to view detailed statistics gathered by Cloudflare easily in the Ploi panel. You are able to see requests (pageviews, cached), bandwidth, TLS version & uniques per day. Just visit the DNS tab in site level and press “Statistics”.

• [Added] Detailed statistics view for Cloudflare integrations ?
• [Added] Ability to add a description to databases (https://roadmap.ploi.io/b/panel-requests/add-description-to-database/)
• [Added] Ability to add PTR records in Cloudflare DNS management
• [Added] {RELEASE} variable for deploy scripts with sites having zero downtime enabled
• [Added] {RELOAD_PHP_FPM} variable for deploy scripts to reload FPM worker (which uses the site’s PHP version)
• [Added] Documentation link to sidebar in panel
• [Added] Logout button whenever you were presented with the lock screen
• [Added] Ability to see usages for notification channels in your profile
• [Added] News feed (https://ploi.io/news/feed)
• [Fixed] Sites overview had wrong <title> text
• [Fixed] Applied general fixes for SSL wildcard LetsEncrypt
• [Fixed] Bug when you wanted to delete a notification channel from your profile with entities attached
• [Fixed] Bug when you wanted to test pushover notifications

• [Added] Swedish language (SV)
• [Updated] German language (DE)

• [Added] Ability to deploy staging to production sites https://developers.ploi.io/deployments/deploy-staging-site-to-production

We now support LetsEncrypt wildcard SSL! 🎉 Supported drivers for now are Cloudflare, DigitalOcean & Linode. With Linode it is good to know that requesting wildcard SSL can take up to 15 minutes as their DNS system processes each 15 minutes.

• [Added] LetsEncrypt wildcard support ?
• [Added] Linode as official partner (https://ploi.io/links)
• [Added] Arrow navigation in search results when pressing “/“
• [Added] More keyboard shortcuts to navigate in panel, press “/“ to see which shortcuts are available
• [Added] Completely new onboarding experience view for new users
• [Added] Ability to purge cache when using Cloudflare (In DNS tab)
• [Added] Logs when enabling, flushing or disabling FastCGI cache module
• [Added] {FLUSH_FASTCGI_CACHE} variable for deploy scripts to flush the cache after deployment
• [Added] UpCloud now also supports Ubuntu 20.04
• [Added] Documentation link to sidebar
• [Added] Ability toggle if a new system user should have sudo or not
• [Progress] On translations, we’re still looking for more translations: https://github.com/ploi-deploy/ploi-translations
• [Progress] On responsive, we still discourage to manage server through mobile, however we have made big steps in making the panel more responsive
• [Fixed] Encoding on server logs reading, sometimes an unknown format is returned which we convert properly now to read
• [Fixes] Since the release of the new panel a lot of small UI things have been changed/updated according to user feedback, we’re satisfied with how it is now. There still might be some small labels or texts that are wrong or misplaced, let us know if you find any and we’ll update that right away. Thanks so much for your support & feedback on the new panel release! ?

With this new design we increase the consistency between all the elements we use, that being said; it could be that some things are on different places from what you where used too. Not to worry, not a single feature has been dropped in this update, we kept them all 😎

• [Added] As described above, brand new panel design 🎨
• [Added] Sites overview
• [Added] Ability to setup custom Laravel commands in Laravel tab
• [Added] API now has redirects endpoints (https://developers.ploi.io/redirects/list-redirects)
• [Added] API now has custom server creation (https://developers.ploi.io/servers/create-custom-server)
• [Added] Ability to view queue worker logs
• [Added] Ability to search in status pages
• [Added] Keyboard shortcuts (which ones show in the search modal), if you have suggestions let us know!
• [Breaking change] Site deploy notifications (notifications tab) is now (finally) using the new notifications system. Old setup notifications will not work anymore and will have to be setup again.
• [Changed] Default PHP version when installing a server is now 7.4
• [Changed] New server installations will now use Ubuntu 20.04 if installed by server provider
• [Changed] New server installations will now use NGINX 17
• [Changed] New server installations will now use MySQL 8
• [Changed] We have swapped Codemirror for Codejar (for editing config files, deploy scripts)
• [Changed] Meta has been renamed to settings
• [Changed] FastCGI cache path more specifically to the domain itself
• [Changed] We have closed support for non-paying customers
• [Changed] We have removed wysiwyg editor from support, you can now use markdown in requests
• [Fixed] When using AWS installing a storage server it would not open the 9000 port in AWS security group

FastCGI cache is a module that can cache directive content which is served from the PHP backend. Using this module will significantly improve your site speed.

By default we deploy a set of rules that should be usable for a default PHP app & WordPress. However, you are completely free to edit these lines to your likings so it will work for your own application.

We also offer the ability to flush your cache from the FastCGI Cache modal, soon we will also release a deploy script variable to trigger the cache flush so cache is flushed on each deploy.

Changelog

• [Added] FastCGI cache 1-click install ?
• [Added] Storage servers may now easily request LetsEncrypt SSL
• [Added] Ability to scroll in scripts modal
• [Added] Ability to search in repositories dropdown when installing a repository
• [Added] Symphony tab added with specific commands
• [Added] YouTube channel (https://ploi.io/youtube)
• [Added] Documentation now uses Meilisearch for fast and quick search results (https://ploi.io/documentation)
• [Updated] Servers will now be installed with Node V12
• [Updated] Validation message when adding Vultr server when Ploi has no access
• [Updated] 2FA package has been updated
• [Improved] Monitoring script has been improved on the CPU resource measurement
• [Improved] Queue tab will not display if no PHP is installed
• [Improved] phpMyAdmin installations are now the newest version
• [Fixed] Redis with PHP installation is now solved

• [Added] Service status tab ?
• [Added] Status page management in API (https://developers.ploi.io/status-pages/list-status-pages)
• [Added] If you have cloudflare attached and create a subdomain in ploi that exists in cloudflare, it will also link that domain so you can manage DNS
• [Added] Ability to provide passwords to the ZIP for database backups
• [Added] More strict validation for when using interactive commands in a deploy script
• [Added] Ability to update IP address when the server got unreachable and user was presented with an unreachable screen
• [Added] Ability to deploy SSH keys from your profile to multiple servers at once
• [Added] Ability to see backup path for site file backups
• [Added] Ability to delete single log items or select a few to delete those
• [Added] Ability to synchronise environment files (.env)
• [Added] Ability to disable incident log for status pages when there are no incidents present
• [Added] Notification when quick deploy was triggered but could not deploy with a specific reason included
• [Changed] Dropped reCaptcha from Google and added a honeypot as recaptcha
• [Improved] Support tickets now give documentation suggestions according to your ticket title to help you
• [Improved] Fail registration for deployments
• [Fixed] Hetzner server provider does not accept _ characters, fixed to cast to - now
• [Fixed] Fix for hostname while installation when invalid characters are present in server name
• [Fixed] Several fixes for team members not being able to do actions they should be able to do
• [Fixed] Default placeholder URL for Gitlab in commits tab

• [Added] Ability to restore database backups ?
• [Added] Ability to disable status page branding
• [Added] Server tokens are now off by default (NGINX webserver does not show version number anymore)
• [Added] An overview of servers that have monitoring installed
• [Added] Ability to duplicate databases
• [Added] Ability to specify a system user name when creating a site
• [Added] Ability to search on domain aliases in mega search
• [Added] Pacific timezones to profile settings
• [Added] Ability to create wildcard domain aliases (like: *.example.com)
• [Updated] Staging feature now has more settings to customise better to your needs
• [Updated] Scripts that did not contain the -y flag with apt update or install commands validation is improved
• [Fixed] Additional site deploy scripts where not considering the owner of the server, team users would get denied access
• [Fixed] Adding network rules for both TCP/UDP on same port was not possible
• [Fixed] A lot of design inconsistencies in the panel have been resolved

LetsEncrypt is revoking certain certificates due to a bug in CAA code on the 4th of March. You can read more about the details on this here: https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/2020-02-29-caa-rechecking-bug/114591

Public announcement: https://letsencrypt.org/caaproblem/

What should I do?

You can use this service to easily check whether your domain is affected: https://unboundtest.com/caaproblem.html

Whenever it is affected, make sure to remove the certificate from the Ploi UI and request a new one.

• [Added] Staging sites feature 🥳
• [Added] Ability to make status pages post auto updates regarding server connection
• [Added] Jetbrains spaces to the user keyscan
• [Added] Manage tab to load balancers to setup automatic updates
• [Added] Log tab to load balancers to view logs
• [Added] Ability to edit the database configuration file (my.cnf)
• [Added] Ability to search on internal IP addresses
• [Added] Ability to read certbot renew log in log tab
• [Updated] Queue’s are now created with “queue:work” instead of “queue:listen”
• [Updated] Monitoring labels now show “N/A” if a value of 0 or none was filled in
• [Updated] We will now always force NGINX 16 (instead of 14)
• [Updated] Restart button for database would always show “MySQL” if any other type was installed
• [Updated] The way deployment failed registration worked, this is now completely accurate
• [Updated] Virtual host file for Nextcloud installations to match their new standards
• [Updated] About page now has a timeline
• [Fixed] Whenever a domain was added with “www.” prefixed, redirects would not follow up correctly
• [Fixed] Whenever there where multiple ssh ports in network tab, you would not be able to delete them
• [Dropped] Support for hybrid has ended due to instability

We have had a huge amount of requests for S3 backups (https://roadmap.ploi.io/b/server-level-requests/database-backup-drivers/) and basically this is just the beginning. We will also start supporting other S3 drivers such as our own supported storage server MinIO, or like Wasabi S3.

Check out our article how to retrieve your security details for your server to access your bucket, so it can upload your backup ?

https://ploi.io/documentation/mysql/how-do-i-create-iam-user-for-aws-s3-database-backups

Changelog

• [Added] AWS S3 backups ?
• [Added] Ability for users on a subscription to easily upgrade/downgrade their subscription
• [Added] Ability to run site file backups on demand via UI
• [Added] Displaying backup file size in database backups, this is not available for all drivers yet
• [Updated] New Hetzner logo
• [Updated] DNS tab CAA record did not have border color, added this
• [Updated] Deployment email (& failed one) added server name in subject
• [Fixed] Updating a network rule when it was SSH port would not function properly
• [Fixed] Site file backups would not always run, we have told them to stop goofing around and just run
• [Fixed] Responsive design in frontend documentation improved
• [Fixed] Automatic system user name generation when creating a domain was faulty when TLD was like: .co.uk
• [Fixed] Telegram server updates notification, we do not send the log output anymore as it was getting too big for telegram to handle
• [Started] Progress on service status tab on server level, to quickly see what the statuses are for several services (like nginx, php, etc)

By adding this feature we’ve actually also introduced a second feature automatically, it is now easier for servers that are load balanced to keep your code in sync, and in addition to that we have added a deploy button in the "Sites" tab from the load balancer so you don’t even have to go to your webservers and figure out which one to deploy.

This is because once you deploy a site through the load balancer it will automatically determine which repository is having synchronized websites and use that one to deploy (so the linked sites will get deployed as well). The sites do not have to be on the same server, you can select any site from all the servers you want to.

Changelog

• [Added] Synchronized deployments ?
• [Added] PHP extensions window to install PHP extensions easily
• [Added] Run scripts while creating a new server
• [Added] Branding page (https://ploi.io/branding)
• [Added] Onboarding view when a new user registers
• [Added] Teams permissions now have inherit permissions
• [Updated] Dropped support for TLS 1 & 1.1
• [Updated] Total repositories in dropdown for GIT cloning has increased from 20 to 100
• [Updated] FAQ in panel is now renamed to Documentation which is more clear
• [Updated] Status pages now always display recent incidents days (https://status.larabug.com/)
• [Updated] DigitalOcean plans now show more information about which type it is when creating a server
• [Updated] A lot of tweaks to load balancing have been made to make the UX way more fluent
• [Fixed] Ability to delete servers via API while building is now disabled
• [Fixed] PHP 7.4 was not added to the user permission to reload
• [Fixed] While installing a new server with custom scripts that contained ‘reboot or shutdown’ installation would break, disabled those scripts in server builder
• [Fixed] Github social login if there was no e-mail in the return response, will now display a nice validation message

• [Added] AWS EC2 support ?
• [Added] Status page incidents
• [Added] Dark mode for status pages (light, dark, auto)
• [Updated] Renewed indexes for servers, teams & status pages to be more clear when no records are present
• [Updated] New toaster
• [Updated] Sidebar now has less dropdowns to reduce click throughs
• [Updated] Balanced the way server monitoring stats where send from servers
• [Updated] Our VAT number to be compliant with new EU laws
• [Fixed] Validation message for when adding Telegram notification channel which was not clear
• [Fixed] Telegram notifications content too long (limited now)
• [Fixed] Deleting a DigitalOcean server failure fix
• [Fixed] API site repository was not functioning properly

• Teams update (https://ploi.io/news/huge-teams-update)
• phpMyAdmin support (https://ploi.io/news/install-phpmyadmin-with-1-click)
• Server monitoring (https://ploi.io/news/server-monitoring-phpmyadmin-1-click-install)
• Google Drive support (https://ploi.io/news/google-drive-support)
• Automatic subscriptions (https://ploi.io/news/automatic-subscriptions-now-available)
• Load balancing (https://ploi.io/news/introducing-load-balancing)
• User isolation per site (https://ploi.io/news/website-isolation-anyone)
• NGINX + Apache2 hybrid (https://ploi.io/news/so-nginx-apache2-hybrid-is-a-thing-now)
• Different PHP versions per site (https://ploi.io/news/you-may-now-select-different-php-versions-per-site)
• Partnership with Hetzner (https://ploi.io/news/partnership-with-hetzner)
• File explorer support (https://ploi.io/news/file-explorer-feature-free-larabug)
• Database server support (https://ploi.io/news/database-server-type-server-updates)
• Clone site support (https://ploi.io/news/clone-sites-notification-system-update)
• Site monitor & PostgreSQL support (https://ploi.io/news/site-uptime-monitor-postgresql-support)
• Rebranded (!!) ?(https://ploi.io/news/so-we-ditched-our-logo)
• Database & file backups rotatable (https://ploi.io/news/database-file-backups-are-now-rotatable)
• Telegram support & notifications update (https://ploi.io/news/sit-back-we-have-a-lot-to-tell-you)
• Storage server support (https://ploi.io/news/storage-servers-released)
• Beautiful crafted status pages (https://ploi.io/features/status-pages)

• [Added] Status pages
• [Added] Pushover notifications
• [Added] PHP 7.4 support
• [Added] Ability to restart PHP FPM workers
• [Added] Ability to read PHP FPM logs
• [Added] SFTP password support for file backups
• [Added] SFTP database backups rotations
• [Added] Ability to change the currency you pay in (EUR & USD)
• [Added] Ability to read private key from certificates (besides CSR)
• [Added] Lightbox to frontend pages with screenshots so you can view images more clearly
• [Added] Articles to deploy script suggestions
• [Added] Ability to show private IP in overviews (setting in profile settings)
• [Changed] Documentation in panel blue color reduced
• [Fixed] Crucial bugfix in switching PHP versions when system user was not ploi
• [Fixed] Whenever you installed another PHP version and it would fail, the status of the server would be changed to “Building failed” which is incorrect
• [Fixed] Storage servers does now also install certbot

Enjoy 50% discount to extend your current subscription for a month ? Use the following code while using manual payment on the subscription page: BLACK-FRIDAY-2019

This code will only work on the 29th of November 2019 and is usable once per account for a maximum of 1 month.

Changelog

• [Added] Ability to change repository URL
• [Added] Ability to change the default sorting of servers on the index (check your profile settings)
• [Added] Telegram notification screenshot has been added to the frontend notifications page
• [Added] Ability to run database backups on demand
• [Added] PHPRedis is now installed by default on all new servers (you can install it on your current server using our documentation article)
• [Added] API servers endpoint now also displays whether server needs a reboot or not
• [Added] SFTP password support for database backups
• [Fixed] When leaving keep backup amount field empty error would be generated
• [Fixed] Automatic updates notification for slack and discord didn’t contain the servers name
• [Fixed] The process of enabling and disabling OPCache
• [Fixed] Bugfix in Daemon’s tab where it would not display users field if it did not contain custom system users
• [Changed] Updated Vultr logo to their new logo
• [Updated] Updated our WYSIWYG editor to latest version

Your own file storage for your applications, it could not get any easier. Object storage with Amazon S3 support at its finest, most applications work out of the box because of the S3 support so it could not get any easier.

Ploi will help you setup a very easy maintable storage server ready for the future. Our system offers several features to make the complete setup a breeze for you.

Another benefit is that Ploi does not save any keys to increase security, everything is being read live from your server.

https://ploi.io/features/storage-server

Website and server monitoring

We have also been working on some adjustments for our monitoring systems. Soon you’ll be able to set up notification channels for site monitoring, SSL checks & mixed content. We hope to release this before the new year, so stay tuned.. ?

New roadmap!

We have moved away from Trello and started with Upvoty as roadmap now, you can visit our roadmap here: https://roadmap.ploi.io, it is also possible to sign up and subscribe to cards so you can stay up to date when we change status so you know what you’re up against.

Other important updates

• Prepared: PHP 7.4 (not released yet)
• Added: Ability to add a new credit or debit card
• Added: Storage type servers!
• Changed: Rotating server logs is now more efficient
• Changed: /roadmap now routes to the new roadmap from UpVoty
• Changed: The way server connections where handled at night (to check if Ploi can still connect to your server)
• Changed: Frontend design has more CTA cards now
• Started: On status pages ?
• Fixed: Fix for SSH keys creating in authorized_keys file
• Fixed: Composer package suggestions had an error, this has been resolved now
• Fixed: Server monitor had a bug with disk size, this has been resolved now
• Fixed: SSL table had a bug with long root domain names, this has been resolved now
• Fixed: When the notifications in the header dropdown where too long, it would adjust size as well, this has been resolved now
• Fixed: Total used places for notifications in profile counter did not show all used places, it does now
• Fixed: Fixed an issue with changing web directories, this works properly now
• Removed: Servitor integration

We are currently changing the way the notifications are handled in Ploi and want our users to be able to customize more in what they receive and where they receive notifications.

Thats why you can now define ‘Channels’ inside your profile in order to use those at places like server monitor or server updates. You can setup Slack, Discord and E-mail channels, we are working on more drivers like RocketChat.

To be able to receive notifications for server monitor, you may now attach your created channels to a server monitor notification. Just press the “Channels” button after the created notifications.

We are still working on the channel support at every notification ability that we offer, expect this real soon.

Telegram notification support

Following up on the important change from above, we have also added support for Telegram notifications. You can link your telegram account inside your profile under the API keys tab and then create a channel for it so it can be used for notifications.

S3 server type support

We have started on the ability for our users to create their own S3 supported servers, this feature is nearly done and requires some thoroughly testing before we can release is, but expectations are that we will be able to release this the beginning of november this year.

Pricing change to Unlimited plan

To keep improving our services we have decided to raise the price for the Unlimited plan from €25 to €30, this change will come in effect on the 25th of October 2019. Existing customers with an active automatic subscription will keep on the €25 price unless they cancel and restart their subscription.

Smaller updates

• Fixed: team members where not able to search on sites in their teams
• Fixed: hourly site file backups where not enabled yet
• Fixed: WYSIWYG editor for support modals where bugged
• Fixed: specific e-mail validation in teams section, it allowed ' characters which are not valid
• Changed: frontend pricing now has a proper toggle button for yearly pricing
• Added: ability to read Apache2 logs when server is a hybrid version
• Added: ability to delete server through API
• Added: hashtags to titles on the frontend pages for linking
• Added: API featured block to frontend landing page

So earlier it was already possible to backup your database & files, the only downside was that it never really rotated anything. So eventually you would end up with a full Dropbox or Google Drive for example.

Well no more, you can now setup the maximum number of backups to keep in your provider. ?

Since yesterday we also save an internal IP address whenever you install a server through ploi.io itself. This makes it easier and faster to know what your internal IP address is for your server. You can find this IP address inside the server’s META tab, you also have the ability to setup the internal IP address there.

As always be sure to submit your feature suggestion inside our panel if you have any, we’d love to hear from you! ?

We have changed our primary color from #62A6A6 to #1853DB, a very clean blue color. With that we have dropped the logo, basically the logo now is “ploi.io”:

• Ditched our logo (all text now)
• Changed branding color from #62A6A6 to #1853DB
• Completely redesigned frontend website
• Completely hauled over the panel design
• Changed login, register & password forget page
• Code editor highlighting added
• Exported sites & servers to 1 general search bar
• A lot of new features added to API (server creation is still in progress & changelog page is coming to https://developers.ploi.io)
• Ability to export personal user data to see what we save
• Speed improvements panel
• Bug fixes panel

We now offer the ability for users with the Unlimited plan to monitor their websites. We currently offer 2 locations: US & Singapore, we will be expanding this in the upcoming month to support more locations.

This is a real nice way to see what the response of your website is, we are also working on notifications per monitor so you can get notified whenever something is wrong or which has a higher response time.

PostgreSQL Support

We also have added the ability to install servers with PostgreSQL support, it is not possible to upgrade existing servers to allow PostgreSQL support. Backups are also fully working for PostgreSQL servers.

It is now possible to clone your websites to your other servers, it will copy over all the files automatically for you. You can clone a website by going to the ‘Manage’ tab in site level. There you will find a button ‘Clone Site’ to head over to the clone window. ?

Notification System Update

We have also refactored and updated our notification system. It will now display real time incoming notifications and you are able to clear all the notifications at once. There are also plans to make the notification system more customizable so you can completely manage the notifications you want to receive.

This week we have launched a new server type called “Database server”, this allows you to create a database specific server for other servers to connect with. Currently we support MySQL & MariaDB, and we are working on MongoDB and PostgreSQL support.

This is also a step forward towards the second version on our roadmap of loadbalancing (https://trello.com/c/zq5xVF2r/115-database-high-availability-follow-up) where it will be possible to load balance database servers and sync them between each other.

You can create a database server by creating a server like normal, and selecting “Database Server” in the type dropdown.

Server Updates

You might of already seen it, we are now displaying any open updates on the server cards and server list view.

Whenever you see any open updates you can update these by running apt-get update && apt-get upgrade in your server. You will have to re-test server connection in Ploi to refresh the label. It might be possible that not all updates have been done, this is because some packages are not upgradable by apt-get upgrade. You will need to run apt-get dist-upgrade and answer a few questions (config files which might change).

If you have any suggestions for any other server types (like worker servers for example), do let us know!

Do I need to change or do anything?
There is no action required from your end if you have everything setup. If you are using IP whitelisting in your favorite server provider, we do recommend updating your API key with our new IP address.

When is this taking into action?
The update will occur on the 16th of june 2019 10:00 CEST, there could be some downtime but we expect it to be switched real quick.

You will be able to find our updated IP address in our documentation.

If you have any questions please do let us know!

Today we have released a new feature; the server file explorer, easily manage your folders & files through the Ploi panel. This feature was built silently in the background and was now ready for its first release ?



This feature is available for all users with an subscription on the Unlimited plan.

Laravel Developers Unite, free Larabug! ?

We have recently added Ploi social login to https://larabug.com/login, where you can login with your Ploi account.
This is because every user that has a paid subscription in Ploi: gets a free paid subscription with Larabug. Upon login (with your Ploi account) we will sync your expire date from Ploi, to Larabug.

Head over to https://www.larabug.com and login with Ploi to retrieve your free subscription.

We are still working on partnering up with the other providers that are available in our integrations system. It is an excellent way for us to offer stability and assurance to our users.

If you know a server provider that would fit nicely in Ploi; let us know! We are more than welcome to open up our list and welcoming new and/or young providers. ?

You can install each desired PHP version we offer inside server level PHP tab, once installed you will get more versions available inside the site -> META tab where you can select the desired PHP version for that site.

It is also possible to select a default PHP version which newly created sites will use, you can change this once it has ben created.

We just released a new feature where you are able to manage your own server system users, this allows you to separate applications from one to another.

You can let Ploi.io automatically create a system user for you when creating a new domain (this will generate a unique name from the root domain):

You are also free to create your own system users by going into the ‘Manage’ tab and press ‘System Users’ to get an overview of your current system users:

Load balancing?

In a nutshell; Load balancing is a way to evenly distribute traffic between several servers to reduce load on your webservers and have a higher uptime. You have 1 load balancing server that distributes the traffic between the assigned webservers.

It is now possible to install your own load balancer and assign servers to the load balancer, we have made it a breeze to set this up. Even Let’s Encrypt support has completely been taken care of.

How do I create a load balancer in Ploi?

Head over to the server creation screen and select your provider. In the server detail form you will see a type field where you can specify the type of the server. Select Load Balancer and you're all set!

It is now possible to enable automatic subscriptions so you will never forget to extend your subscription. You can do this by going to your profile and selecting the ‘Subscription’ tab.

Click on your desired plan and select ‘Automatic renewal’, this will guide you through the automatic renewal process. Currently we support automatic renewals with these methods: Credit card & iDEAL.

Let us know if you run into anything!

We had this featured ready a while ago, we were waiting for Google to approve our application which has to follow strict guidelines regarding privacy.

You can easily link your Google Drive account inside your profile under the “API Keys” tab. After this, you will be able to select “Google Drive” as backup provider.

You can also provide folder ID’s to backup too, we have written a FAQ on how to find these ID’s: https://ploi.io/documentation/mysql/where-do-i-get-google-drive-folder-id

Server Monitoring

The first start has been made to our monitoring system, notifications and more specific details about your server usages will be available soon. For now users with a Pro plan or higher can install Ploi monitoring and view a chart with their statistics.

https://ploi.io/features/monitoring

phpMyAdmin 1-click install

This is a highly requested feature, it is now possible to safely install phpMyAdmin with 1 click in your server management tab. After installing, your server will expose the phpMyAdmin dashboard @ http://{server_ip}/phpmyadmin

This can be extremely handy if you need to access it from a place other than your regular computer. (Because you can uninstall it with 1 click too)

https://ploi.io/phpmyadmin

Upcoming features..

We still recommend you to keep looking at our roadmap, because everything that is getting built, featured by users is put on there.

For now, we are working on these parts;

Teams

We are doing one more bigger refactor to our recent teams update with global permissions.

MongoDB

MongoDB is a highly requested feature as well, we are working on support inside our panel for this database type.

If you have anything, feature wise, bug wise, it does not matter, let us know!

You will be able to find the installation in the 'Manage' tab server-level.

Refactored Teams Feature!

Today we are happy to announce a whole new teams refactor in our panel ?

Why change what worked?

Correct, fact was that it did worked. But not extensively enough, we also received some feedback on how we could improve on this particular feature.

That being said it is not completely polished yet, there might be some UI changes to make it more fluent and workable.

Are there any more updates coming?

Certainly, we have a lot of more updates incoming for teams. As for one are more extensive higher level permissions on teams besides the team-server-user permission system.

Screenshots:

We love to hear from you if you have any feedback! 

This past week we have added Hetzner as supported server provider, this way you can easily create servers with Hetzner.

Server Builder

The server builder screen has been updated as well, we now display the logos of the provider. There are more changes coming soon to the server builder to allow more flexibility to creating your own personal server.

Database Backup

The database backup window now also has another field where you can exclude specific table names that you do not want to include in your backup. This can be extremely handy if you don’t need specific log tables to be backed up to speed up your backup and make it more lightweight.

Last but not least, HAPPY NEW YEAR! We would like to thank everyone for believing in us and providing feedback. We have a lot upcoming for 2019 (see our roadmap) which is great!

DISCOUNT! 

Use this discount code HAPPY-NEW-YEAR to get 15% off your plan subscription. This code is valid until the 5th of januari, 2019. Its only usable once and can be used for extending your plan for 2 months maximal.

https://upcloud.com/community/tutorials/start-deploying-ploi/

UpCloud is a cloud hosting company and states that they provide the fastest cloud servers (generally speaking they tell everyone they are 50% faster than other hosting providers are, which is a big statement and really saying something!).

Their numbers don’t lie; they claim to even provide faster servers than DigitalOcean does: https://upcloud.com/compare/digitalocean/

Throughout partnering we’ve had contact with several UpCloud employees because of the integration, and al of them; were really friendly, responded swiftly and accurately.

Recently UpCloud rebranded completely; their whole style and website has changed to a more slick & fluent design.

Currently Ploi is hosted with DigitalOcean, but we are changing our infrastructure to several UpCloud servers which will be load balanced. We do recommend UpCloud as server hosting provider as they have proven themselves more than enough.

UpCloud is fully integrated in our panel, easily add your UpCloud account in your Ploi profile so you can create UpCloud servers straight from our panel!

Use this link to get a 25$ credit on your UpCloud account: https://www.upcloud.com/register/?promo=ploi

Use this code to get the 25% discount: BLACKFRIDAY2018

We would also like to take this opportunity to thank everyone that has been giving their input about Ploi and how to be even better at what we do. As we say many times; user feedback is very important for us. 

To see what is to be expected in Ploi in the upcoming months, we recommend you check out our roadmap here: https://ploi.io/roadmap

Have a great day and if you think you have any friends/co-workers that might be interested in Ploi let them know about it ?

It is now possible for users with a plan that contain automatic file backups to specify paths that they want to have backed up.

You can save up unlimited backup locations to your website, each path that you specify will be verified if it exists. Currently we only allow folders in side the /home/ploi folder to be backed up.

To start backing up file locations, check out the 'Manage' tab inside your website to create new locations that you want to have backed up.

We have released automatic updates after a user suggested to us that he needed this badly. We saw the need of this feature request as we had more people requesting this. As we value user feedback very much, we processed this and is now visible in your server under the “Manage” tab. You can choose to execute updates daily, weekly and monthly.

Server Apps

Server apps are comparable to sites, but without all the default webserver configuration. This makes it possible to run your own apps like JAVA daemons, socket servers or anything else from a GIT repository. (The functionality is exact the same)

These apps will be stored under /home/ploi/applications/{slug-app}

PHP version

We also made it possible while setting up your server to select your PHP version. The default refers to PHP 7.1. Once PHP 7.3 is fully released we will of course make this available through our interface. (You do not need to reinstall your server for this to change, as we can already change PHP versions without any problem)

Whitelabel

One of the biggest features yet to be released yet, still in full progress. We had to postpone this a bit more as we found some features that would be nice to integrate simultaneously with the release of whitelabel.

Also we have decided that we are releasing the Ploi-hosted whitelabel in 2 versions:

• Reseller version
• Company version

The reseller version is for users that want their clients/customers to log in and manage their own server/sites. Company version is basically the same but only ment for internal usage.

Pricing wise these will not differ from each other, we have not settled on a price yet.

If you want to submit a feature just contact us, or check out our Roadmap and leave a comment in a card if you want to give more priority to one!

Frontend Design

First of all we updated our frontend design, its completely renewed and ready for the future ? 

Let us know what you think!

https://ploi.io

Cloudflare Integration

As you might of seen on social media, we have been working on the Cloudflare DNS integration.

This allows you to manage your DNS easily in our control panel.

API SDK & API documentation renewed

We have replaced our old documentation generated by documentation with a VuePress system. This improves overview and readability.

You can find our new documentation over here: https://developers.ploi.io/

To be able to communicate with this API, you will either need to write your own class or use our SDK. We got help whilst developing (which you can find on the about us page) this package.

https://github.com/ploi-deploy/ploi-php-sdk

As always we love to hear your feedback or suggestions, do not hesitate to contact us!

Domain aliases

This was actually quite requested a lot, which we processed in our UI. It is now easily possible to manage your domain aliases through our panel. This makes it possible to point multiple domains to 1 site in Ploi.

New logo?!

Ah, yes. We've changed our logo, here it is;

View deployments log

Usually you could only see 1 latest deploy log from your website, now you can read back the latest 5 (if there are any):

We also recommend you to follow our Twitter page as we provide a lot of updates and news on there: Ploi Twitter

We have made our Trello board public for everyone to see. If you submit a feature or bug, chances are big you will see it back on the Trello board.

You can find it here: https://ploi.io/roadmap

Local backups & interval

Thanks to one of our members you are now able to automatically create MySQL backups to your local drive.

For those wondering about use cases, on top of backing up to the local file system, you can also backup to a mounted volume and not have to worry about losing backups if you destroy the droplet, much easier to setup than (S)FTP also.

Not to forget is the interval feature as well, when selecting a database to backup you will be able to set a interval. This can vary from each 10 minutes to 8 hours, you can also select 'Each night' so Ploi will always back up each night for you automatically.

Pricing update

As of the 10th of August we will change our prices, these price changes will be as following:

As always we hope to see you soon @ https://ploi.io and if you have any questions just let us know!

OctoberCMS 1-click-install

Quickly whip up a CMS system? No problem, we now also offer OctoberCMS support! Installation is pretty straightforward, just press the "Install OctoberCMS" button and Ploi will take care of the rest for you.

Extended MySQL Backups

MySQL backups are usually forgotten or people find it a hassle to setup. Well no more hassle! There is no excuse to not run MySQL backups now when Ploi makes this very, very easy for you.

We have added FTP and SFTP to supported drivers and we are also working on OneDrive and Google Drive support. If you have any suggestions for supported drivers to backup to, let us know.

As always if you have any feedback please let us know as we value this very, very much.

Installation Screen refactor

Today we have released a new version of our server installation process, we refactored the screen a lot which is more fluent with setting up a server.

Custom SSH ports

Also a new feature is custom SSH ports, this makes it possible to change your SSH port after you created the server to any port you like. Be aware that Ploi does nothing on your server, this is only to update the knowledge for Ploi where to connect on.

Monitoring update

We have also updated our monitoring tab, it now displays more information regarding your server. (This will require you to setup Servitor, which is really easy)

When you enabled monitoring, you will also be greeted with information below your server to quickly display the health:

Please let us know what you think and if you have any feedback do not hesitate to contact us!

You can easily couple your Scaleway account to your Ploi profile and create servers with them.

For more information we guide you to this article about the update: Medium: Deploy a Scaleway server with Ploi

If you have any more suggestions about providers you'd like to see in Ploi, just let us know by leaving a reply to this e-mail!

New server building screen

We also updated our server building screen, this is the new screen that you see when your server is building with a progress bar to get a indication on how far your server is with installing:

Any more?

Next up is the server creation screen, we will update this screen to offer more fluent support to setup your server.

We are currently also looking into 'server types', this feature that we are creating will make it possible to provision servers that have specific apps. For example if you want a seperate Redis or MySQL server you can setup a server with Ploi and group them with other servers. With this feature we are simultaneously working towards the High Availability network principle, we will update you later on this feature.

We released a new feature called "Authentication" inside site level, in here you can create basic auth users so you can protect your sites with a username/password combination. This makes it easy if you have a dev domain for example, to protect this from the outer world. This feature is enabled for all paid plans and looks like this:

Quick Deploy

Also, we release a feature called "Quick Deploy", which makes it possible to deploy once you commit to the master branch. You can enable this with Bitbucket, Github, and Gitlab.

You can now save scripts to your account to easily run on your servers. Do you have a script to install MongoDB? Or perhaps Elastic Search? Save your script and run it easily on a server.

Scripts are only available for users that have a paid plan.

You can save as many scripts as you want, and you can run them anytime you want.

You can now easily enable zero time deployments for your site. Zero time deployment makes it possible to deploy without any downtime, this makes your application more reliable and no one will even noticed the deploy.

Zero time deployment is currently only available for users with the Pro or Unlimited plan.

It is now possible for our users to create servers with Linode, all you have to do is create a Linode API key (Personal Access Token), and add this to your Ploi profile (under "Server providers section").

Be aware that this token needs to have read and write access for Linode's, otherwise Ploi will not be able to create a server for you.

It is now possible for users with a paid plan, to backup their MySQL databases to Dropbox. You can enable this by going to the MySQL overview and enable the backup.

Ploi creates a dump of your database, zip's it and then uploads it straight to your Dropbox account. This happens every night at 04:00 AM UTC.

Please note that this feature is only available for paid plans.