Actually only the following files are served from nginx with proper HTTP headers for browser caching and character sets.

html|htm|jpg|jpeg|gif|png|ico|css|zip|tgz|gz|bz2|pdf|odt|txt|tar|bmp|rtf|js|swf|avi|mp4|mp3|ogg|flv|svg

Please a local font files with the following extensions too:

eot/ttf/woff/woff2

It would be nice to have a read only user for the database so that people that need to perform SELECT queries don't use the admin user to log in.

You support high cpu instances for AWS and Google Cloud but not DigitalOcean.

Can you include support for choosing different instance types for DigitalOcean such as their high CPU Instance?

Please add Lightspeed as server stack option, optimized with Wordpress Lightspeed cache plugin, to have fastest server today.

looking to add mailparse to PHP stack - want to use uvDesk (https://www.uvdesk.com/en/opensource/) that requires this extension

for the sake of example, currently I have access to a 160GB disk space server and i am only using 22 GB of it. i can't add more files because i seem to be out of inode space. Inodes are made from disk space being used as a table to map out other files. Why can't this table be increased using the space i already have access to so i can take advantage of all my disk space.

The t3a family of servers upgrade the old t2 family of servers. The t3a family is cheaper to run yet more powerful, so you'll save money and your clients will get an even better product.

Sometimes edits need to be applied to nginx config such as:

location ~* \.(doc|pdf|xml)$ {
add_header X-Robots-Tag "noindex, noarchive, nosnippet";
}

This is not currently possible and there is no work around.

This means that google will index lots of files that it shouldn't and can cause many SEO problems.

Block Storage (Digital Ocean, Vultr) or Buckets (GCP) with an unlimited storage option.

Davidtgill
Sep 6, 2:29 AM PKT

Hi, on the Google Cloud Platform they have VM instances which you can get on Cloudways.
On Google Cloud Platform they also have Storage "Buckets" which are a far cheaper way to store lots of data. You can also store multiple Terabytes.
My suggestion is that Cloudways offers a "Buckets" storage option.

ie backup entire server before upgrading MySQL, so that restore of entire server is possible (inc older MySQL version) if something goes wrong with the upgrade. I understand this would be chargeable but it would save the stress levels for many a web dev

The server upgrade takes somewhere between 10-15 minutes and during the upgrade, visitors can't access the website. They see a 503 error.

I think Cloudways should show a maintenance page while the server upgrade is in the process.

Hi I love Elsticsearch on Cloudways. But I miss the option to create a safe end point for the Elsticpress plugin.

Please enable it asap, as it will be beneficial for us serving the Middle East.

Thanks and regards

Hi,
Please allow to setup sphinx search on the server.

Would be handy to specify the timezone you would get in log files. For example apache logs are always in UTC and can be configured at the apache level.

Include a back-up estimate so we can tell what to expect on our bill. Have a bill est. that shows server cost(s) plus backups on each server.

Scaling up is easy.

Scaling down (with Vultr, DigitalOcean or Linode) requires to clone a server.

When cloning, server gets new IP address - this causes a lot of hassle with application integration or DNS configuration.

SUGGESTION:
It would be great to make scaling down hassle-free, so that after cloning server could have the same IP as previous server.

Version 1.20 provides some very useful switches such as error only logging etc.

DesktopServer version 3.5.2 has a new direct deployment feature to get your WordPress websites from your desktop to your hosting provider in just a few clicks.

To do this Cloudways must support File System Direct.

File System Direct is a (PHP) feature that allows WordPress to write files to the local file system on the server. At the moment it does not so we can't use this feature in DesktopServer.