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+ Our partner for performant and stable virtual private servers, UpCloud just celebrated their 1millionth cloud server deployment! This is a fantastic achievement and we will celebrate with them for the whole November. 1 Million Servers Deployed As ... [More] if this milestone is not enough, in October UpCloud also rolled out a Software Defined Network system which is a great fit for private cloud deployments and thus ideal for many Cloudron use-cases, where organization internal apps are managed through a Cloudron deployed in an intranet. Also stay tuned for the next Cloudron release, which will contain various improvements to leverage virtual and software defined private networks. If you haven't heard of UpCloud yet, make sure to read through our partnership announcement article and the official walk-through tutorial here. Already using UpCloud? If you are already an UpCloud customer and run Cloudron on a server of theirs, we have created a special discount code for Cloudron subscriptions, which will grant you 50% off for new subscriptions. You will find your code when you setup a Cloudron subscription from within your own Cloudron's dashboard. Not yet using UpCloud? In case you have not yet joined all those UpCloud customers, we also got a bunch of promo codes for getting started with your first UpCloud servers. Just sign up through this promo code link and you will receive initial $50 in free credits, while receiving another $50 once the account is fully activated by depositing $10. Get started with UpCloud now Comments? Comments/Suggestions/Feedback? Use our Forum or email us. [Less]

We are happy to announce the release of Cloudron 4.2! For those unaware, Cloudron is a platform that makes it easy to run web apps like WordPress, Nextcloud, GitLab on your server and keep them up-to-date and secure. Think SaaS for self-hosted apps. ... [More] Cloudron 4.2 adds a new UI to configure apps, per-app disk usage graphs, custom data storage directory, forwarding mails to external domains, & more New configure UI The various app settings are now grouped into sections: We have also reworked the entire app deployment subsystem. Making configuration changes is now faster and as non-disruptive as possible. For example, changing the labels/tags/icon or modifying the access control groups results in no downtime and is instantaneous. Per app disk usage The graphs view now displays all the disks attached to the server and the disk space used by each app: Now that we have precise disk usage information, various operations like install, update & backup, first check the disk space availability. If disk space is unavailable, the admins are notified. Custom data directory Apps on Cloudron store their data and assets in the /home/yellowtent/appsdata/ directory. If the server is running out of disk space, it is now possible to move the app's storage directory to another location. For example, you can mount an external disk on the server and move the app's storage to this new mount point. Many VPS providers allow you to mount an external disk on the server - DigitalOcean Block Storage, AWS Block Store, Linode Block Storage to name a few. If you like smartphone analogies, this is no different than moving an app to the SD Card. You can move the app to an external location from the Resources section: Forward to external domains In previous versions of Cloudron, Email forwarding lists could only contain addresses internal to Cloudron. With 4.2, forwarding lists can contain external addresses as well. For implementing this feature, we have added support for Sender Rewriting Scheme in the Cloudron mail server. SRS and Reverse-SRS is automatically used when required. SRS is also enabled when a user uses Sieve Redirect to forward their mails to an external domain. Deactivate users We have added an option to disable a user. When de-activated, the user will not be able to login to the Cloudron dashboard. The user will also not be able to login to apps that use Cloudron Single Sign-On. Other notable changes New IP based Restore flow Wasabi storage backend Add SparkPost as mail relay backend Update Haraka to 2.8.24 Login sessions are now persisted across restarts Add option to skip backup when updating an app Fix bug where the reverse proxy (nginx) was not reloaded on cert renewal TOTP tokens are now checked for with +-60 seconds Fix issue where tar backups with very large files (> 8GB) was corrupt Install or update Cloudron New to Cloudron? Get started for free by running with 3 simple commands on your server. To update an existing installation, simply click on the 'Update now' button on your dashboard. Comments? Comments/Suggestions/Feedback? Use our Forum or email us. [Less]

+ We are very happy to announce our partnership with UpCloud to help you get started for free. Through this partnership you can now sign up with UpCloud using the Cloudron promo code link and get $25 USD in credits for your account, fully functional ... [More] for 14 days. This includes access to their 24/7 Support. Who is UpCloud UpCloud is a Finnish Infrastructure as a Service Cloud provider founded in 2012 with a strong focus on best-in-class performance while offering highly competitive pricing. Their proprietary MaxIOPS storage technology adds even more speed and responsiveness to a server than regular SSDs offer. They operate data centers in Europe, the US and Singapore. Being closer to where your users are located adds further to app response times. Why run Cloudron on UpCloud At Cloudron, we care deeply about ease of use and making great cutting edge technology accessible for everyone. This requires a straigtforwards and modern user experience. UpCloud offers exactly this for the infrastructure side to run Cloudron on. UpCloud's high and consistent performance with MaxIOPS, is a perfect fit to run apps on your servers managed through Cloudron. This high speed access to application assets stored on disk ensures blazingly fast response times to your users and also great resource utilization. On top of that, all cloud servers at UpCloud are deployed on enterprise-grade hardware. You can start with a pre-configured set of resources (CPU, RAM and Storage) and freely configure the assigned resources to fit changing requirements dynamically and instantly. How to Install Cloudron on UpCloud Before installing Cloudron, you need to sign up with UpCloud (make sure to get your free credits) and deploy a server. For the whole process, just follow the official walk-through tutorial here. Get started with UpCloud now Comments? Comments/Suggestions/Feedback? Use our Forum or email us. [Less]

+ We are very happy to announce our partnership with UpCloud to help you get started for free. Through this partnership you can now sign up with UpCloud using the Cloudron promo code link and get $25 USD in credits for your account, fully functional ... [More] for 14 days. This includes access to their 24/7 Support. Who is UpCloud UpCloud is a Finnish Infrastructure as a Service Cloud provider founded in 2012 with a strong focus on best-in-class performance while offering highly competitive pricing. Their proprietary MaxIOPS storage technology adds even more speed and responsiveness to a server than regular SSDs offer. They operate data centers in Europe, the US and Singapore. Being closer to where your users are located adds further to app response times. Why run Cloudron on UpCloud At Cloudron, we care deeply about ease of use and making great cutting edge technology accessible for everyone. This requires a straigtforwards and modern user experience. UpCloud offers exactly this for the infrastructure side to run Cloudron on. UpCloud's high and consistent performance with MaxIOPS, is a perfect fit to run apps on your servers managed through Cloudron. This high speed access to application assets stored on disk ensures blazingly fast response times to your users and also great resource utilization. On top of that, all cloud servers at UpCloud are deployed on enterprise-grade hardware. You can start with a pre-configured set of resources (CPU, RAM and Storage) and freely configure the assigned resources to fit changing requirements dynamically and instantly. How to Install Cloudron on UpCloud Before installing Cloudron, you need to sign up with UpCloud (make sure to get your free credits) and deploy a server. For the whole process, just follow the official walk-through tutorial here. Get started with UpCloud now Comments? Comments/Suggestions/Feedback? Use our Forum or email us. [Less]

Hundreds of businesses are using Cloudron for day to day operations. Unexpected downtime of critical applications can have a severe impact. To help the IT teams of such businesses, we are introducing a Business plan which has a 1 Day Response Time. ... [More] If your company is looking for even shorter response times and tighter SLAs, please contact us for custom pricing. We have also decided to discontinue offering the Standard Plan. Previously, we used App type (Standard vs Premium apps) as a way to price our product. We have since learnt that this categorization is too rigid. When publishing new apps, we find ourselves debating what type of app it is and whether we should be making new App types. To remove this confusion, we have decided not to price Cloudron based on the app type anymore. Free trial We now have a free trial in place that lets you try any plan for free for a month. You will not be charged for the duration of the month. Impact on existing customers This change has no impact on existing paid users. Existing users will continue to pay the old subscription price. Existing users will have access to the same set of apps they had access to before and will be provided the same level of support. Install or update Cloudron New to Cloudron? Get started for free by running with 3 simple commands on your server. Comments? Comments/Suggestions/Feedback? Discuss in our Forum or email us. [Less]

Hundreds of businesses are using Cloudron for day to day operations. Unexpected downtime of critical applications can have a severe impact. To help the IT teams of such businesses, we are introducing a Business plan which has a 1 Day Response Time. ... [More] If your company is looking for even shorter response times and tighter SLAs, please contact us for custom pricing. We have also decided to discontinue offering the Standard Plan. Previously, we used App type (Standard vs Premium apps) as a way to price our product. We have since learnt that this categorization is too rigid. When publishing new apps, we find ourselves debating what type of app it is and whether we should be making new App types. To remove this confusion, we have decided not to price Cloudron based on the app type anymore. Impact on existing customers This change has no impact on existing paid users. Existing users will continue to pay the old subscription price. Existing users will have access to the same set of apps they had access to before and will be provided the same level of support. Install or update Cloudron New to Cloudron? Get started for free by running with 3 simple commands on your server. Comments? Comments/Suggestions/Feedback? Discuss in our Forum or email us. [Less]

We are happy to announce the release of Cloudron 4.1! For those unaware, Cloudron is a platform that makes it easy to run web apps like WordPress, Nextcloud, GitLab on your server and keep them up-to-date and secure. Think SaaS for self-hosted apps. ... [More] Cloudron 4.1 adds a new configure UI, customizable app icons, multiple domain redirects, new app manifest & more. New configure UI The various app settings are now grouped into categories: App Icons Cloudron 4 added support for setting labels and tags for apps. In 4.1, you can customize the icon of each app. Multiple domain redirects You can now setup one or more domains to redirect to a single app. In the screenshot below, www.cloudron.dev, site.cloudron.pro and cloudron.xyz will redirect to blog.cloudron.ml. Manifest v2 We have bumped the app manifest version to 2. The main change is that environment variables injected by Cloudron into an app's runtime are prefixed with CLOUDRON_. This prevents any conflict with the app's own environment variables. Other notable changes Remove password requirement for uninstalling apps, domains & users Fix issue where unused addon images were not pruned Add DigitalOcean Frankfurt (fra1) region for backup storage Fix name.com DNS backend issue for naked domains Fix DigitalOcean DNS API to make requests with ttl of 30 Fix DKIM selector conflict when adding same domain across multiple cloudrons Install or update Cloudron New to Cloudron? Get started for free by running with 3 simple commands on your server. To update an existing installation, simply click on the 'Update now' button on your dashboard. Comments? Comments/Suggestions/Feedback? Use our Forum or email us. [Less]

We are happy to announce the release of Cloudron 4! For those unaware, Cloudron is a platform that makes it easy to run web apps like WordPress, Nextcloud, GitLab on your server and keep them up-to-date and secure. Think SaaS for self-hosted apps. ... [More] Cloudron 4 adds SFTP access, App labels, Scaleway Object Storage, testing community apps, easier mail import & more. SFTP access Cloudron 4 has a built-in SFTP server that provides access to any application's files. SFTP login is integrated with Cloudron user management. Admins can use use their Cloudron password for SFTP access. Instead of providing SFTP access across all apps, we are enabling it only in the app packages that makes sense. This is because apps might behave erratically if files are changed behind their back. For the initial release, WordPress, LAMP, Surfer have SFTP access enabled. SFTP credentials can be obtained from the app information dialog (the i button in the app grid). Notice that the SFTP username is different for each app. SFTP service runs at port 222. Cloudron's built-in firewall already has this port open. If you are unable to connect, please check if the server's Cloud firewall like EC2 security group or DigitalOcean firewall is not blocking that port. App tags Cloudron provides a great interface for managing web sites. However, locating an app can be a challenging task when you have very many WordPress instances! To ease the situation, we have added support for setting a display label and one or more tags for each app. Once set, apps can be filtered by domain name and tag. A future release will add support for customizing the app icon as well. Scaleway Object Storage Scaleway Object Storage is an Object Storage service based on the S3 protocol. Scaleway can be selected as the storage backend for backups: Easier email import In previous Cloudron releases, enabling email for a domain required switching over the mail DNS configuration. This requirement meant a domain couldn't be pre-setup with mailboxes before going "live". In Cloudron 4, email can be enabled for a domain and the DNS configuration can be done at any later time. The rough flow is as follows: First, add the domain for which you would like to receive email in the Domains view. Then in the Email view, when enabling mail from the domain, uncheck the Setup Mail DNS records now option. Create mailboxes. You can also now import email into Cloudron using a tool like imapsync. Once ready, clicking the Re-setup DNS button in the Email -> Status page to setup the DNS records and go live. Read our docs for more detailed instructions on how to use imapsync to import email. Unmanaged WordPress Cloudron's existing WordPress package is targeted at users who want a managed WordPress installation. The Cloudron team tracks upstream WordPress releases and publishes updates. Like all other apps, the code in the managed WordPress app is read-only. We recognize that another big use case for WordPress is to simply serve as a starting point for developing web sites. To serve this use case, we have published a new app called Unmanaged WordPress. The WordPress code in this package can be viewed and modified via SFTP. It's important to remember that Cloudron will not update the WordPress code and one has to use the WordPress built-in updater. The managed and unmanaged WordPress apps are distinguished by their logos. The former has the blue logo and the latter has the gray logo. App Updates Cloudron used to send a weekly digest mail about app updates. It turns out it is best to inform admin immediately about app updates to serve as a reminder to double check if the update went smoothly. For this reason, app update emails are now sent as soon as an app is updated. A related issue is that depending on the backup retention policy, the backup of the previous app version might get cleaned up before the admin got to check the app. To remedy this, Cloudron now specifically preserves the backup that was created before an update for 3 weeks. Community apps Cloudron's community has been actively packaging new apps. We have been reluctant to get these apps published because we haven't had the time to evaluate and test the apps. This has however held back other users from easily trying out all these new apps. In Cloudron 4, we have added a mechanism to publish these 'unstable' apps. You can enable listing of unstable apps on your Cloudron from the settings page. Other notable changes Upstream app version is now listed in the app info dialog Support for email relays that do not require authentication and self-signed certificates Cloudron updates can now be applied without taking a full backup. This was added for situations where there might a bug in the backup logic and an upcoming Cloudron update fixes the backup issue. Install or update Cloudron New to Cloudron? Get started for free by running with 3 simple commands on your server. To update an existing installation, simply click on the 'Update now' button on your dashboard. Comments? Comments/Suggestions/Feedback? Use our Forum or email us. [Less]

We are happy to announce the release of Minecraft Server for Cloudron! For those unaware, Cloudron is a platform that makes it easy to run web apps on your server and keep them up-to-date and secure. Think SaaS for self-hosted apps. Overview ... [More] Minecraft is a sandbox, survival game created back in 2011 initially by Swedish game developer Markus Persson and is now actively developed by Mojang. Despite its age since the first release, it remains insanely popular due to its genuine style and gameplay. Multiplayer Server Ever since Mojang released the Minecraft server component, people create their own virtual worlds and play together in small to large communities. Running your own server allows to control nearly every aspect of the game. What is not configurable in the server settings itself, can usually be done by a game master within the game session. The Cloudron Minecraft Server is a great way to start building your own Minecraft community or simply play along with your circle of friends in a private world. Features Currently this first version supports some Minecraft server specifics to administrate your instance as well as gets all the benefits from the Cloudron platform when it comes to server maintenance: Easy installation with continued updates. Start/stop the Minecraft server instance. Backup/restore via the Cloudron platform services. Webterminal for server admin commands. Getting started Install Cloudron, if not yet done, see here Install the Minecraft app through your Cloudron's dashboard on a domain of your choosing Now open the server webapp by clicking on the Minecraft icon in your dashboard and login with your Cloudron credentials Wait until it the server status indicator shows Running Everything is ready, so start the Minecraft client on PC Connect to new Minecraft server via Add server to the multiplayer server list: Become the server operator To take full control over your new world, once you have logged into the server from the Minecraft client, visit the server dashboard and use the webterminal to elevate rights to your account. The server command for this is /op your_minecraft_username: For all available commands, simply type /help into the command line and explore the possibilities. Comments? Comments/Suggestions/Feedback? Use our Forum or email us. You are now the proud owner of a private Minecraft world and ready to share your instance's domain with a community or friends. Happy gaming! [Less]

We are happy to announce the release of Cloudron 3.5! For those unaware, Cloudron is a platform that makes it easy to run web apps on your server and keep them up-to-date and secure. Think SaaS for self-hosted apps. Cloudron 3.5 adds a new ... [More] Notifications view, paginated users UI, namecheap DNS & more Notifications view Cloudron sends email notifications to administrators about various events like when a user is added/removed, when an app goes down or when an app was restarted because it ran out of memory. These important notifications sometimes go unnoticed if Cloudron has issues delivering email. In 3.5, there is a notification view that shows all the notifications. Notifications can be left 'unread', to serve as a reminder to deal with the issue later. In the coming releases, we will enhance this view to remind admins to change an app's default password, possibly brittle backup policies and security/login alerts. Namecheap DNS Namecheap is one of the best domain registrars. We have added DNS integration for Namecheap. To use the Namecheap provider, generate an API key and add the Cloudron server's IP to the API whitelist in the Namecheap UI. Big thanks to Tomer Shvueli for contributing this feature! Users view The Cloudron Users view can take a while to load if there are lots of users. To alleviate this, we have added pagination and search to the user listing. New S3 regions The S3 backup backend now supports 3 additional regions: Osaka Paris Stockholm Other notable changes Add UI to switch dashboard domain Fix remote support button to not remove misparsed ssh keys cloudflare: preseve domain proxying status Fix issue where oom killer might kill the box code or the updater Allow full logs to be downloaded Update Haraka (mail server) to 2.8.22 Log events in the mail container Fix issue where SpamAssassin and SPF checks were run for outbound email Improve eventlog messages Track dynamic DNS change events Retry errored downloads during restore Install or update Cloudron New to Cloudron? Get started for free by running with 3 simple commands on your server. To update an existing installation, simply click on the 'Update now' button on your dashboard. Comments? Comments/Suggestions/Feedback? Use our Forum or email us. [Less]