Recent changes
Wednesday November 04 2026
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Cron jobs Updated Markdown page
What Exponential's cronjob parts do, which ones a hosted site needs and how often, the crontab lines to install for each customer (as which user, with which PHP), what to do on hosts that limit cron, and how cron…
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The cronjob console Updated Markdown page
Setup > Cronjobs from a host's point of view - what support staff and customers can see and run there, what the page needs from the PHP configuration (proc_open, exec, posix_kill, a CLI binary), how pausing parts works…
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Database backups per engine Updated Markdown page
The backup, check and restore commands for each database Exponential supports, in the official order (SQLite 3, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MariaDB, Oracle, MySQL), with the traps of each engine and a portable schema dump for…
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Deploying changes Updated Markdown page
How to ship a code, settings or template change to a hosted Exponential site so it is live at once and never cached half way - exp:velocity deploy and its order of steps, why a PHP-FPM reload affects other customers…
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Health checks and uptime Updated Markdown page
What an external uptime monitor should request on an Exponential site, how to tell a planned maintenance window from an outage, which internal checks to run on the server, and how Velocity's health endpoint and watchdog…
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Log viewer and rotation Updated Markdown page
How support staff read an Exponential site's logs from the administration or a shell (Setup > Log files and exp:logs), how to give a customer access safely, and how the kernel rotates, compresses and prunes its logs…
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Mail consent and bounces Updated Markdown page
The e-mail preference system from a host's point of view - the mail gate, categories, the footer and site secret, the suppression list, the bounce mailbox reader and its settings, the consent log and data requests, and…
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Mail delivery Updated Markdown page
How Exponential sends mail (sendmail, SMTP or the file transport), the MailSettings a host sets for each customer, what the host's mail infrastructure must provide for mail to arrive (sender domain, SPF, DKIM, DMARC)…
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Maintenance mode Updated Markdown page
How a host takes a customer's Exponential site offline for a window and brings it back - the command and the Setup > Maintenance page, what visitors and search engines get, who still gets in, the traps of separate…
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Migrations on hosted sites Updated Markdown page
What a customer's migration run does to your servers - the installation lock, the captions (database dumps and file copies) and their disk space, maintenance mode, background runs started from the administration, the…
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Monitoring overview Updated Markdown page
Everything Exponential offers for watching a hosted site (status commands with exit codes, the system information health checks, log health and the error digest, audit alerts, Velocity's health and metrics endpoints)…
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Request logs Updated Markdown page
How Exponential separates real faults (error.log) from not-found answers (404.log) and suspicious requests (security.log), what each line holds, how addresses are masked, which settings control it and how support staff…
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Restore and restore tests Updated Markdown page
The restore procedure for an Exponential site step by step, how to run a restore test on another machine without sending mail or running jobs, and the checks that prove the restored site is complete.
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Security log Updated Markdown page
The security signals an Exponential site writes (security.log from the request classifier, auth.log, the CSP report log and the audit trail), how to read them, which settings tune them, and how a host forwards them to a…
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Several web nodes Updated Markdown page
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.
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Storage layout Updated Markdown page
What an Exponential installation keeps on disk, which directories must be writable, which hold customer data and which can be thrown away, and how a multi-site installation spreads logs and caches.
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The system card for hosts Updated Markdown page
How system administrators and support staff use ./console exp:expfetch on a hosted server - the health hints at login, --watch for load, memory and Velocity workers, and exp:info --json for monitoring, inventories and…
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Upgrading customer sites Updated Markdown page
How a host brings customer installations to a newer Exponential release - taking inventory of versions, planning windows, the code, database and cache steps of an upgrade within the 6.0 line, the checks that prove it…
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Control panels: overview Updated Markdown page
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…
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cPanel Updated Markdown page
What the Exponential sources say about cPanel hosts (tier 3, expected to work; EasyApache PHP per account; Velocity may not be allowed) and a hedged, generic approach to setting up an Exponential account there, with a…