Hosting partners
This page is for partners with the Hosting profile. "Hosting Partners provide the secure, scalable infrastructure essential for Exponential applications" and "Provide the infrastructure for hosting Exponential-based solutions. They have expertise in designing the optimal environment for a specific solution" (https://exponential.earth/partner/hosting-partners, https://exponential.earth/partner/program, read 18 October 2026).
Hosting options the program names
The hosting partners page lists "7x Premium Hosting" and, as "Alternative Hosting Providers who are known to work well. Note that no one has paid 7x for placement": Hosting.com ("Formerly a2hosting.com") and Amazon AWS. A hosting partner joining the program adds its own offer to this landscape.
What an Exponential host must provide
| Area | Requirement | Source |
|---|---|---|
| PHP | 8.0 to 8.5 for the 6.0.15 line, Velocity included (from its release 0.0.4.54) | doc/eng-us/install/02-requirements.md |
| PHP extensions | Among others dom, xsl, mbstring, iconv, intl, zlib, and one database extension | same |
| php.ini | memory_limit 64M or more, max_execution_time 30, date.timezone set, file_uploads on | same |
| Database | SQLite 3 (default), PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MariaDB, Oracle or MySQL, in that order of preference | Database support |
| Operating system | See the tiers | Operating system support |
| Engine | Velocity (recommended), FrankenPHP, or a web server with PHP-FPM | Who is the Exponential Foundation? |
| Command line | PHP CLI with the same version and extensions as the web PHP, for cronjobs and scripts | doc/eng-us/install/02-requirements.md |
| Security | TLS, security headers, user separation, no exposed installer | Security hardening |
| Backups | Database and storage, restore tested | Database support |
The detailed checklist: Hosting partner technical checklist.
Services to offer
- Managed Exponential hosting with updates and security fixes applied.
- Staging environments for release tests (Testing releases).
- Backups with tested restores.
- Performance tuning: caches, engine, database.
- Migration of existing sites onto current PHP.
Working with other partners
Hosting partners often serve implementation and creative partners' customers. Agree in writing who is responsible for what: the server and PHP (host), the application and its extensions (implementation partner), the content (customer).
Giving back
- Report environment-specific bugs with exact versions (Filing bugs well).
- Document what works on your platform (OS, panel, container) as a tutorial; the project keeps an Operating system support page that grows with such reports.
Related pages
- Hosting partner technical checklist
- Choosing hosting, database and OS
- Partner profiles
- Free documentation: this page is free to copy, translate and improve under the GNU FDL 1.3.