Recent changes
Wednesday November 04 2026
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Hosting companies: start here Updated Markdown page
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.
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Migrating customers: overview Updated Markdown page
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…
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Changing a customer site's database engine Updated Markdown page
How a host moves a customer site from one of the six supported databases to another (for example from SQLite 3 to PostgreSQL when a site outgrows one machine): when it is worth it, the engine-neutral .dba transfer…
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Migrating customers from eZ Platform and Ibexa Updated Markdown page
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…
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Migrating customers to your hosting Updated Markdown page
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…
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Moving a site between hosts Updated Markdown page
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.
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Hosting models: overview Updated Markdown page
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.
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Choosing a hosting model Updated Markdown page
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.
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Containers: Docker and Podman Updated Markdown page
Running Exponential in Docker or Podman containers: what the sources say (tier 2, Velocity's published images), what goes on a persistent volume, the one-writer rule for SQLite, an entry point that installs once and…
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Dedicated servers Updated Markdown page
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…
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Kubernetes Updated Markdown page
What the sources say about running Exponential on Kubernetes (tier 3, expected to work) and what several replicas require from the database, the shared file storage, sessions, cron, proxies and code deploys, written as…
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Managed hosting Updated Markdown page
What a managed Exponential hosting service can take over from the customer, with the tools the software provides for each task (updates with ezupdate, the upgrade check, backups in maintenance mode, system information…
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Platform as a service Updated Markdown page
What a platform-as-a-service offering must provide for Exponential (tier 3 in the sources), why a read-only or ephemeral file system needs var/ on persistent storage and a database server, how VarDir and the cache and…
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Shared hosting Updated Markdown page
How to offer Exponential on shared hosting: what the sources say works there (Apache or LiteSpeed with .htaccess, the setup wizard, SQLite or the panel's database), what usually does not (Velocity), and the settings…
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VPS hosting Updated Markdown page
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…
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Operations Updated Markdown page
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.
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Automated updates with ezupdate Updated Markdown page
What the ezupdate extension does for a host (checks for updates, dry runs, guarded Composer updates and installs from the administration or a shell), the switches that keep it safe, and how to automate the checking part…
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Backup schedules and retention Updated Markdown page
The choices a host makes when it turns Exponential backups into a service (how often, how many generations, where they are kept, what is backed up before a change) and the retention settings inside Exponential that a…
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Backups: what to back up Updated Markdown page
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…
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Clustering and shared storage Updated Markdown page
How Exponential shares uploaded files and caches between several web servers with the DFS cluster file handler: the NFS mount, the metadata database, index_cluster.php, the maintenance commands and what to watch.