Exciting news! We're thrilled to announce that Ploi now officially supports ZeroSSL, giving you more flexibility in managing your SSL certificates. This integration allows you to easily secure your websites while maintaining the streamlined experience you expect from Ploi 💙

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 🥰

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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/844-database/2126-list-database-backups
• [Added] New site file backups endpoint: https://developers.ploi.io/845-site/2130-list-site-file-backups
• [Fixed] Update scripts endpoint (didn’t update properly): https://developers.ploi.io/49-scripts/2136-update-script