Hosting
Hosting Exponential: servers, PHP, databases, web servers, Velocity, caching, backups and operations.
143 pages
- Hosting companies: start here The landing page for hosting companies and service providers that offer Exponential hosting: what the platform needs, how this section is organized, a first-week plan for a new offer and links to every hosting page.
- Choosing a hosting model A comparison of shared hosting, VPS, dedicated servers, containers and Kubernetes for Exponential, built from what the project's sources say, with the questions that decide which model a hosting offer should use.
- Choosing a web server A decision guide for hosts: which web server or engine to offer for which plan, with the facts that decide it (PHP version, long-running processes, isolation, HTTPS, caching) and a decision record to copy.
- Hardening for hosts The hardening a host applies to every Exponential site, layer by layer: served files, secrets, debug output, the administration, passwords, sessions, headers and TLS, proxies, file ownership, Velocity, mail, the audit…
- Migrating customers to your hosting The end-to-end process a host follows to bring a customer's site onto its Exponential hosting: assessment questions, the offer, a staging copy, the cut-over with maintenance mode and DNS, verification, rollback and…
- One-click installers for Exponential How a host offers Exponential as a one-click install: the one installer with three front ends (setup wizard, kickstarter, exp:install), which one fits a panel, a script or a customer, what the one click must do before…
- Go-live checklist for a customer site The checklist a host works through before a customer's Exponential site goes public: administrator password and accounts, settings, caches, HTTPS and headers, cron, mail, search, backups with a restore test, monitoring…
- Requirements at a glance Every requirement of Exponential 6.0.x on one page, with the minimum, the recommendation and what checks it: PHP, extensions, php.ini, databases in the official order, Composer, web server, image conversion, writable…
- Caching layers Every cache between a visitor and the database of an Exponential site, in order: what each holds, whether it ships on or off, where it lives, which server uses it, and how it is cleared, so a host knows what a plan…
- Backups: what to back up The complete list of what an Exponential backup must contain (the database, uploaded files, settings, keys and the audit trail), what can be left out because it is regenerated, and how to take database and files at the…
- Databases in the official order The six databases Exponential 6.0.x supports, in the project's official order (SQLite 3, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MariaDB, Oracle, MySQL), compared side by side for hosts, with how to choose which to offer and what each one…
- Velocity for hosts How a hosting company installs, configures, runs and supports Exponential Velocity, the recommended engine: requirements, install, ports and worker user, a boot service, the watchdog, deploys, logs, the dashboard and…
- Multi-tenant isolation How far one customer's Exponential site is kept from another's on shared infrastructure: what Exponential isolates and what it leaves to the operating system, the boundary each setup gives (shared process, one pool or…
- Checklists for hosts: overview Printable checklists for hosting companies that run Exponential sites: a new server, a customer site going live, monthly operations, a security review, and offboarding a customer.
- Control panels: overview The overview of the control panels section: which hosting panels the Exponential sources mention and at which tier (Plesk tier 1, cPanel and DirectAdmin tier 3, ISPConfig and Webmin not mentioned), what every panel must…
- Hosting basics The overview of the hosting basics section: what a server needs to run Exponential, the PHP versions, extensions and settings, the six supported databases in the official order, operating systems, Composer and Git…
- Hosting models: overview The overview of the hosting models section: which ways of hosting Exponential the sources cover (shared, VPS, dedicated, containers, Kubernetes, platform as a service, managed) and one line on each page.
- Migrating customers: overview The migration pages for hosting companies: bringing a customer's Exponential site to your hosting, upgrading sites from older versions and other platforms, moving between hosts and changing the database engine, with…
- Operations The day-to-day running of hosted Exponential sites in one overview, with a link to each page on storage, clustering, backups, monitoring, logs, cron, mail, updates, deploys and maintenance mode.
- Performance Overview of the performance section for hosting companies: the levers in order of effect, the caching layers, measuring before tuning, and a one-line guide to every page of the section.
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