Hosting
Hosting Exponential: servers, PHP, databases, web servers, Velocity, caching, backups and operations.
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- SLA options for Exponential hosting The service level commitments a host can choose to offer for Exponential sites (availability, response, restore, updates, security fixes), what each depends on technically, how to measure it, and an SLA template with…
- TLS and HTTPS How a host serves every Exponential site over HTTPS only: who terminates TLS, redirecting plain HTTP, HSTS in the kernel and in Velocity, secure session cookies, proxies and load balancers that terminate TLS…
- Content Security Policy The Content Security Policy as a host meets it: the shipped report-only policy on administration siteaccesses, the csp/report collector and csp.log, how to move a customer's siteaccess to enforce, what usually breaks…
- DirectAdmin What the Exponential sources say about DirectAdmin hosts (tier 3, expected to work, in the same row as cPanel), the Exponential requirements translated into generic panel tasks, the questions to answer about your…
- Migrating customers from eZ Platform and Ibexa For hosts whose customers run eZ Platform or Ibexa DXP/OSS: the two Exponential destinations (Exponential Platform Nexus and the Exponential 6.0 legacy kernel), what each means for the hosting stack, how to assess the…
- Monthly operations checklist What a host checks once a month for every Exponential site it operates: updates, backups and a restore sample, disk and logs, security log, cron runs, caches, certificates, accounts and a short report to the customer.
- nginx with PHP-FPM How a host serves Exponential with nginx and PHP-FPM: the server block derived from .htaccess_root rule for rule, why its order matters, HTTPS, uploads, and the checks that prove nothing leaks.
- PHP versions and extensions Which PHP versions Exponential 6.0.x and Velocity run on, which PHP extensions are required, recommended or needed per database, the package names on the RHEL family, Debian, Ubuntu and Plesk, and why the web PHP and…
- Runbook: disk full What to do when the disk of an Exponential site fills up: find what grew (storage, caches, logs, database, backups), free space safely with the cache and log commands, never delete storage or settings, and prevent a…
- Several web nodes What changes when more than one web server serves one Exponential site: the database, shared files, sessions, the caches on each node, trusted proxies, cron, deploys, maintenance mode and logs, with a checklist.
- Support tiers for Exponential hosting Support levels a host can offer for Exponential sites, the line between hosting support and application support, severity definitions, what support staff should collect from a customer, and when to escalate to the…
- The kickstarter for hosts How a host uses the kickstarter for repeatable Exponential installs from a reviewed kickstart.ini: the ini and run commands, DatabaseAction and why it can destroy data, dry runs, templates with placeholders, logs, and…
- VPS hosting How to offer Exponential on a virtual private server: choosing the distribution and PHP, serving with Velocity or a traditional web server, the database, users and permissions, a boot service, and what the host and the…
- Billing and metering options Billing models a host can choose for Exponential hosting (flat, tiered, usage based, per site, per service) and what the server and Exponential can actually measure for each: disk, database size, requests, workers…
- Caddy What the Exponential sources say about Caddy, the two ways to use it (FrankenPHP, which is Caddy with PHP built in, or Caddy with PHP-FPM), the routing any Caddy setup must reproduce, and the traps to avoid.
- Dedicated servers How to use a dedicated server for Exponential: one large site or many isolated ones, sizing the Velocity worker pool and instances from the measured figures the sources give, the database on the same machine or beside…
- ISPConfig ISPConfig is not mentioned in the Exponential sources and is not placed in any tier. This page says so plainly, lists what an ISPConfig-managed server must provide for an Exponential site, maps each need to a generic…
- Moving a site between hosts Moving an Exponential 6 site from one server or host to another without changing its version: what to copy, what to fetch fresh, the settings that name the old server, the commands in order, and the checks afterwards.
- PHP settings for Exponential The php.ini values the Exponential installer checks, a production set for a PHP-FPM pool, upload limits, time zone, OPcache, error display, the PHP functions some features need, and where Velocity and FrankenPHP take…
- request-shield and request rules The three request layers a host can use with Exponential: request-shield, a firewall that decides before the kernel starts; the kernel's request classifier, which only classifies into security.log; and the kernel's…
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