Changelog
PHP
Release Date: January 30, 2024
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  • NewPHP 8.2 version
PHP
Release Date: December 6, 2023
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  • ImprovedRestarting the PHP process will also try to kill all stuck PHP processes
AVIF images
Release Date: September 27, 2023
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  • NewSupport for avif and avifs images
Cloudflare and Quic.Cloud
Release Date: June 13, 2023
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  • NewCloudflare and Quic.Cloud services are 100% compatible with our services.
MySQL
Release Date: March 25, 2023
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  • NewAutomatically kill MySQL slow queries
Security
Release Date: March 19, 2023
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  • NewBesides our real-time malware scanner, we will also perform monthly scanning on each website and each file
PHP
Release Date: February 9, 2023
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  • NewSupport for PHP auto_prepend_file value, used by some plugins e.g WordFence
Logs
Release Date: February 7, 2023
These logs can be very useful, especially when you made some changes (installing, updating or deleting a plugin or theme)  and the website becomes slow or simply does not work.
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  • NewNew Changelog tab in the Site->Logs page.
Payment
Release Date: December 25, 2022
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  • NewHosted Stripe checkout. Support 3D secure payments, Indian cards and few other use cases
  • ImprovedSolved a billing bug where some users weren't charged
PHP
Release Date: August 14, 2022
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  • NewPHP 8.1 version
Regions
Release Date: May 31, 2022
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  • NewMadrid, Spain
Regions
Release Date: May 21, 2022
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  • NewParis, France
SSL
Release Date: April 5, 2022
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  • NewAutomatically clone the existing SSL certificates used for the website into the new account when a website is transferred to another Closte account
Database
Release Date: February 7, 2022
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  • NewWeekly database auto optimization
Staging Environment
Release Date: October 18, 2021
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  • NewSupport for large staging websites, up to 30GB
Regions
Release Date: October 13, 2021
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  • NewToronto, Canada
Deposit
Release Date: September 5, 2021
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  • ChangedThe minimum initial deposit amount is raised from $20 to $30
Security
Release Date: August 15, 2021
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  • UpdatedPHP hardening
Rewriting
Release Date: August 1, 2021
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  • ImprovedMore accurate and simpler URL rewriting
Security
Release Date: August 1, 2021
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  • NewProcess monitoring
PHP
Release Date: July 12, 2021
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  • NewionCube Loader for PHP 7.4
SSH
Release Date: July 12, 2021
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  • RemovedTemporary, all SSH connections are disabled due to abuse
Regions
Release Date: June 30, 2021
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  • Newaustralia-southeast2 - Melbourne
  • Neweurope-central2 - Warsaw
Account
Release Date: June 29, 2021
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  • NewPhone verification via SMS
Themes
Release Date: June 21, 2021
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  • ChangedServer-side cron for auto themes update functionality
Plugins
Release Date: June 21, 2021
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  • ChangedServer-side cron for auto plugins update functionality
PHPMyAdmin
Release Date: June 18, 2021
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  • UpdatedPHP 7.4
  • UpdatedPHPMyAdmin 5+ version
PHP
Release Date: May 23, 2021
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  • NewPHP 8
Email
Release Date: May 1, 2021
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  • ImprovedSolved a bug not sending email notifications when answering the tickets
Staging Environment
Release Date: April 7, 2021
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  • NewExecute custom shell script after creating the staging website
  • NewExecute custom shell script after pushing the changes from the staging website into the production website
Logs
Release Date: March 25, 2021
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  • NewAdded the HTTP Referer header to cache-miss and not-cacheable logs
PHP
Release Date: February 4, 2021
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  • ImprovedThe object cache memory usage is excluded from the PHP memory_limit usage.
CPU
Release Date: January 31, 2021
Regions using N2 CPU instances:
  • asia-southeast1
  • australia-southeast1
  • us-central1
  • europe-west3
  • us-east1
  • asia-northeast1
  • europe-west4
  • europe-west2
  • asia-east1
  • europe-west1
  • us-east4
  • us-west1
  • southamerica-east1
  • asia-east2
Upgrading a region might require downtime of approximately 5 minutes, between 1:00 AM-5:00 AM clock, local region time.
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  • ImprovedBy the end of March, the whole platform will be migrated to N2 CPU instances (where available) which are up to 40% faster compared to the current CPUs
Litespeed cache plugin
Release Date: January 21, 2021
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  • ImprovedImproved compatibility with our built-in backups
  • ImprovedImproved compatibility with our Cache Invalidation feature
CDN
Release Date: January 14, 2021
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  • NewAdded a new option in Site->Settings->CDN tab to completely disable the CDN service
PHP
Release Date: January 13, 2021
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  • ChangedPHP 7.4 is now the default PHP version
DNS
Release Date: January 4, 2021
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  • ImprovedFixed an bug related to multiple SRV values
Regions
Release Date: December 22, 2020
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  • Newasia-southeast2 - Jakarta
  • Newus-west3 - Salt Lake City
  • Newus-west4 - Las Vegas
CDN
Release Date: December 3, 2020
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  • ImprovedFixed an bug related to the custom CDN SSL certificates
Development mode
Release Date: November 10, 2020
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  • NewThe Development Mode now will bypass our security for all requests, previously only for the logged-in admin user.
Caching plugins
Release Date: October 30, 2020
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  • NewFlyingPress plugin is now compatible with our platform
Uptime
Release Date: October 29, 2020
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  • ImprovedFixed a bug related to our monitoring system that produced a false-positive downtime, two times in October 2020, once in australia-southeast1 region and once in europe-west6 region.
Rewriting
Release Date: October 22, 2020
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  • ImprovedAdded support for rewriting some rare encoded URLs
CDN
Release Date: August 11, 2020
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  • RemovedRemove query string from URLs
Security
Release Date: August 11, 2020
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  • NewMaximum number of HTTP requests per IP address per hour
SSL
Release Date: July 22, 2020
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  • ImprovedSolved an bug related to custom CDN hostname SSLs
Regions
Release Date: June 15, 2020
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  • NewSeoul - South Korea
CDN
Release Date: June 11, 2020
Starting 10 May 2020, our monitoring system for parsing the CDN bandwidth logs stopped working.The CDN bandwidth usage from 10 May 2020 to 30 May 2020 is free of charge.The CDN bandwidth usage for June will be crawled within the next few days. 
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  • GeneralFixed a bug related to CDN bandwidth monitoring system
Object-Cache
Release Date: May 28, 2020
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  • ImprovedImproved compatibility with multi-site WordPress
  • ImprovedImproved efficiency with multi-site WordPress
  • ImprovedImproved general compatibility with WordPress
Database
Release Date: May 28, 2020
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  • Newutf8mb4 support
  • ImprovedBackup time
Uptime statistics
Release Date: May 18, 2020
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  • NewPlatform uptime statistics are available in the support section
Closte
Release Date: May 11, 2020
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  • ImprovedDrastically improved the loading time of the app.closte.com website
PHP
Release Date: April 22, 2020
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  • NewPHP 7.4
wp-config.php
Release Date: April 8, 2020
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  • NewCustom WP_POST_REVISIONS value
Security
Release Date: April 8, 2020
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  • ImprovedFixed an security bug that prevent few servers to inspect the requests for 24-48 hours.
DNS
Release Date: April 1, 2020
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  • ImprovedThe detection time for the DNS zone status is drastically improved
CDN
Release Date: March 24, 2020
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  • ImprovedCDN rewriting
Object-Cache
Release Date: March 24, 2020
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  • ChangedPersistent object-cache is enabled by default
Object-Cache
Release Date: February 14, 2020
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  • ImprovedCompletely rewritten Object-Cache code for maximum compatibility and performance
WordPress Updates
Release Date: December 24, 2019
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  • NewAdded options to enable or disable auto WordPress minor or major updates
  • NewTake a backup before auto minor/major upgrades
CloudSnap
Release Date: December 15, 2019
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  • ImprovedImproved the creation and deployment time of CloudSnaps.
PHP
Release Date: November 20, 2019
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  • Changednd_pdo_mysql, ioncube_loader and pdo_sqlite PHP extensions are enabled by default
Backups
Release Date: November 12, 2019
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  • NewAdded an option to specify the number of backup retention
  • ChangedThe default value for backup retention is 15 for a production website and 5 for a staging website
wp-config.php
Release Date: November 7, 2019
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  • NewAdded a dynamic WP_SITEURL & WP_HOME hostname option
PHP
Release Date: October 29, 2019
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  • ChangedDefault PHP version changed from 7.1 to 7.3
PHP
Release Date: October 18, 2019
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  • ImprovedFixed a known bug not enabling PHP PDO extension when it is checked in Site->Settings->PHP tab
CDN
Release Date: October 3, 2019
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  • NewCustom CDN hostnames
National domain names
Release Date: August 21, 2019
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  • ImprovedImproved compatibility with national domain names
Email
Release Date: May 7, 2019
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  • ImprovedImproved built-in SMTP functionality with Ajax requests.
Object-Cache
Release Date: May 7, 2019
Object-Cache will be disabled by default because some plugins might not be compatible with persistent Object-Cache.
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  • ChangedObject-Cache is disabled by default.
Backups
Release Date: April 30, 2019
Available only to experienced users as we need more use cases for testing.
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  • NewRestore a single site in a multisite WordPress
Litespeed cache
Release Date: April 28, 2019
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  • ChangedPrivate caching is disabled by default
  • ChangedFeed cache is enabled by default
Object-Cache
Release Date: April 16, 2019
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  • ImprovedImproved Object-Cache compatibility
PHP & Memory
Release Date: April 14, 2019
Some user account, especially those with more active websites may have experienced lower memory usage statistics.
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  • ChangedChanging the PHP process type
  • ImprovedFixed some random, unpredictable 503 errors
Regions
Release Date: April 7, 2019
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  • Newasia-east2 - Hong Kong
  • Neweurope-west4 - Netherlands
  • Neweurope-west6 - Zürich
Email
Release Date: April 6, 2019
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  • ImprovedFixed a bug with auto SPF record
Regions
Release Date: April 3, 2019
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  • Newus-east4 - Ashburn, Northern Virginia, USA
Closte plugin
Release Date: March 15, 2019
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  • ChangedCloste development mode does not disable the caching plugins anymore
  • NewDisable server-side connection timeout for logged in WordPress admin users
Caching plugins
Release Date: March 15, 2019
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  • NewWP-Rocket is now compatible with Closte platform
  • NewWP Fastest Cache is now compatible with Closte platform
  • NewW3TC is now compatible with Closte platform
Backups
Release Date: February 24, 2019
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  • ImprovedImproved WP-CLI compatibility
WordPress
Release Date: February 24, 2019
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  • NewWordPress version 5.1
SSL
Release Date: February 11, 2019
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  • NewIf an SSL certificate already exists, it will be automatically installed when deploying a new website, adding a domain, creating a staging with a custom domain or deploying a website from a CloudSnap
DNS
Release Date: February 11, 2019
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  • NewThe missing DNS records are automatically added when deploying a new website, adding a domain, creating a staging with a custom domain or deploying a website from a CloudSnap
PHP 7.3
Release Date: February 10, 2019
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  • NewPHP 7.3 version
Litespeed IP addresses
Release Date: January 24, 2019
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  • NewLitespeed IP addresses as found on https://wp.api.litespeedtech.com/ips are whitelisted
WP_MEMORY_LIMIT & WP_MAX_MEMORY_LIMIT
Release Date: January 23, 2019
We removed this feature because it is producing some strange issues on a few websites as well the variables are optional and can be added in Site->Settings->Wp-config tab.Please get more support from the plugin and theme authors who are showing you a warning related to these parameters e.g Elementor builder WP Memory Limit warning.
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  • NewWP_MEMORY_LIMIT & WP_MAX_MEMORY_LIMIT parameters are automatically added in the wp-config.php file
WordPress 5
Release Date: December 9, 2018
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  • NewWordPress 5.0 is now available
search-replace
Release Date: December 9, 2018
Our built-in search and replace functionality from now on will also replace escaped URLs (e.g escaped URLs for Slider Revolution images) and URLs used in a statically generated files (e.g Divi Builder CSS cache files).
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  • NewSearch and replace escaped URLs
  • NewSearch and replace static files used for frontend functionality
Wildcard domain
Release Date: December 1, 2018
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  • NewWildcard domain is automatically added in Site->Domains when deploying new sub-domain multisite
Force HTTPS
Release Date: November 12, 2018
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  • ChangedForce HTTPS will be ignored if the website primary domain does not use HTTPS protocol
Logs
Release Date: November 1, 2018
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  • Improvedcache-miss and no-cache logs now have a browser column
Backups
Release Date: November 1, 2018
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  • ImprovedFixed a bug when making a backup from current website state before restoring a backup
Primary domain
Release Date: November 1, 2018
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  • ImprovedFixed a bug when changing multi-site primary domain with 'Fix URLs' option
Metrics
Release Date: October 28, 2018
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  • ImprovedFixed a bug causing incorrect (lower) memory & CPU usage for a few hours in few regions
Logs
Release Date: October 23, 2018
Two new tabs in Site->Logs.
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  • NewX-Litespeed-Cache: miss logs
  • NewX-Litespeed-Cache: no-cache logs
Litespeed
Release Date: October 20, 2018
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  • NewWebsite page cache will be flushed after updating Litespeed web server
Brotli
Release Date: October 16, 2018
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  • NewBrotli compression for dynamic responses
Regions
Release Date: October 12, 2018
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  • Newasia-northeast1 - Tokyo, Japan
  • Newus-west1 - The Dalles, Oregon, USA
PHP
Release Date: October 11, 2018
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  • Newbcmath PHP extension is enabled by default
Unique visitors
Release Date: October 9, 2018
Example of a few new user agents for detecting unique visitors:
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  • UpdatedAdded new user agents for detecting unique visitors
Robots.txt
Release Date: October 4, 2018
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  • ImprovedBlock robots crawling Closte temporary hostnames regardless if the hostname is used as primary or just as a domain alias
  • ImprovedFixed a bug regarding CDN robots.txt
Staging environment
Release Date: October 4, 2018
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  • NewCustom domain
Regions
Release Date: September 25, 2018
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  • Newasia-south1 - Mumbai, India
  • Neweurope-west2 - London, England, UK
DNS
Release Date: September 22, 2018
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  • ImprovedDNS zone details page GUI improvements (search, ordering, naming)
  • NewDNS propagation checker
  • NewAuto-fix DNS records needed for Closte services if DNS zone is hosted on Closte
  • NewAnalyzing all required DNS zone records for Closte services
  • NewDNS propagation detection
  • ImprovedAutomatically truncate TXT values larger than 255 characters
  • ImprovedAutomatically fixing duplicate records error
QUIC
Release Date: September 17, 2018
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  • ImprovedEnabling QUIC at CDN level for the latest regions (asia-east1, europe-north1, europe-west3, northamerica-northeast1, us-west2, us-east1)
Security
Release Date: September 11, 2018
This feature will eliminate all false-positive security rules for logged in WordPress admin users.
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  • NewDynamic whitelisting of logged in WordPress admin users
Closte plugin
Release Date: September 9, 2018
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  • NewPer site configuration in multisite WordPress
  • New3 development modes
  • NewDisable Closte plugin by adding "define('DISABLE_CLOSTE_PLUGIN',true)" in Site->Settings->Wp-config tab
  • ImprovedCDN rewriting wasn't working if Closte settings were not saved at least once
  • ImprovedImproved WP Ultimo compatibility
Email
Release Date: September 9, 2018
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  • ImprovedFixed a bug not clearing Object-Cache when installing email service
SSL
Release Date: August 30, 2018
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  • ImprovedFixed a bug importing wildcard SSL
  • ImprovedImproved free wildcard SSL generation process
WP-Config
Release Date: August 29, 2018
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  • ImprovedPHP syntax highlighter for "Additional wp-config" field
Email
Release Date: August 26, 2018
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  • ImprovedFixed a bug related to "Sent Emails" calculation
Regions
Release Date: August 23, 2018
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  • Newasia-east1 - Changhua County, Taiwan
  • Neweurope-north1 - Hamina, Finland
  • Neweurope-west3 - Frankfurt, Germany
  • Newnorthamerica-northeast1 - Montréal, Québec, Canada
  • Newus-west2 - Los Angeles, California, USA
  • Newus-east1 - Moncks Corner, South Carolina, USA
SSL
Release Date: August 20, 2018
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  • ChangedAutoSSL and Renewal SSL events from now on bypass the SSL quota
  • ImprovedImproved AutoSSL
CloudSnap
Release Date: August 15, 2018
CloudSnap is chargeable service starting 15 August 2018. For pricing details, check the following link.
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  • ImprovedCloudSnap is production ready
SSL settings
Release Date: August 13, 2018
Closte now follows Google Cloud default SSL policy across the entire platform.
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  • RemovedCustom SSL protocols
  • RemovedCustom SSL cipher
Email
Release Date: August 4, 2018
Once we add a new gTLD domain via Mailgun API, the domain is suspended and all our API functionalities are disabled, means, the other users cannot add/delete email domains. This is the main reason why currently only top-level domain TLDs and country level TLDs are supported.
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  • ChangedOnly generic top-level domain TLDs and country level TLDs are supported.
AutoSSL
Release Date: August 1, 2018
Beta version and only works for domain added from our WordPress plugin or via WP Ultimo.
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  • NewAuto SSL installation
WP-CLI
Release Date: August 1, 2018
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  • ImprovedImproved WP-CLI compatibility and execution time
WP Ultimo
Release Date: August 1, 2018
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  • NewDomains are automatically added
  • NewDomains are automatically deleted
  • NewEnd client DNS/SSL status and setup requirements popup, just as Site->Domains page
Closte plugin
Release Date: August 1, 2018
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  • NewAbility to add domain alias
  • NewDomains overview page
Usage Report Per Site
Release Date: July 24, 2018
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  • NewUsage report per site (beta version)
Tasks
Release Date: July 24, 2018
When a task fails because the site is not compatible with WP-CLI, now task details page has the option to view the output of the executed WP-CLI command. In many cases, you can find the issue just by reviewing the output. Here is a sample output and it`s easy to see that trx_addons plugin is the issue.
Undefined option "debug_mode" called from:
Array[4]
   file => "/home/{APP ID}/public_html/wp-content/plugins/trx_addons/includes/plugin.debug.php"
   line => 180
   function => "trx_addons_get_option"
   args => Array[1]
      0 => "debug_mode"
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  • NewView WP-CLI output
Redirection
Release Date: July 24, 2018
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  • ImprovedImproved www to non-www redirection and vice versa
CPU usage
Release Date: July 23, 2018
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  • ImprovedFixed a bug where database CPU usage wasn't calculated for some sites especially in asia-southeast1, australia-southeast1 and southamerica-east1 regions.
CloudSnap
Release Date: July 23, 2018
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  • NewCloudSnap charts in user dashboard
  • NewDownload CloudSnap
  • NewCloudSnap usage report (currently non billable parameters)
Two Factor Authentication
Release Date: July 22, 2018
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  • NewTwo Factor Authentication via Google Authenticator application available for Android & Apple
Robots.txt
Release Date: July 17, 2018
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  • ImprovedDisallow any search engine when site is using Closte sub-domain as a primary domain
WP-CRON
Release Date: July 11, 2018
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  • NewDisable WordPress built-in cron
Public redesign and new pages
Release Date: July 8, 2018
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  • NewMoved from .NET to WordPress, completely new design
  • NewSupport section
  • NewAbout us page
  • NewCloste.com now is self-hosted, just as your site but with a private load balancer and distributed cache.
  • NewChangelog page
Email
Release Date: July 1, 2018
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  • NewOne click SMTP configuration without using a third-party plugin
  • NewEmail tab in Closte plugin with several configurable options
  • NewOption to route sent emails to your private email address, useful for testing
DNS records & propagation
Release Date: July 1, 2018
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  • ImprovedDomain records suggestion with checking from multiple worldwide locations
  • ImprovedEmail records suggestion with checking from multiple worldwide locations
  • NewOur system will merge the current SPF record with our SPF record as well warns you about duplicate SPF records
  • ImprovedChecking the status of the DNS zone from multiple worldwide locations
Closte plugin
Release Date: May 19, 2018
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  • NewCreate a backup
  • NewClear CDN cache
  • NewOne click development mode - disables all caches and WAF
Minimum CPU & memory usage
Release Date: May 17, 2018
This is due to we had tons of very small/idle sites without making any usage while our systems grow. We store around 20K database records per site per month and a lot of stuff that is not included in the site usage e.g backups processing power, updates, and other tasks as we do those on the root level to eliminate spikes and typical errors.
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  • NewMinimum 6 HPI CPU usage per hour per site
  • NewMinimum 1000 MPI memory usage per hour per site
PHP
Release Date: May 15, 2018
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  • NewPHP 7.2
  • UpdatedIonCube loader support for PHP 7.1 and 7.2
  • Changedmax_execution_time default value is 60 seconds
  • Changedmemory_limit default value is 256MB
  • Changedapc.shm_size default value is 256MB
  • Changedopcache.memory_consumption default value is 256MB
  • UpdatedPHP values have been updated to the newer changed values on all sites
  • ImprovedPHP process is not restarted if no PHP changes are made
SSL certificate on redirect domains
Release Date: May 5, 2018
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  • ImprovedSSL certificate can be installed on redirect domains
Change primary domain
Release Date: May 5, 2018
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  • NewFix URLs: backup the site & search-replace the database
Improved startup speed of very idle sites
Release Date: May 3, 2018
Highlighted Changes
  • ImprovedWordPress startup speed of very idle sites
Disk Quota
Release Date: April 9, 2018
Highlighted Changes
  • ImprovedFixed a bug with auto increasing disk quota.
Wildcard SSL
Release Date: March 31, 2018
Highlighted Changes
  • Newfree Wildcard SSL certificates
SSL installation
Release Date: March 22, 2018
By default, new sites are deployed on HTTP protocol. From now on, when installing an SSL certificate on the primary domain, you have options to change the protocol to HTTPS as well search and replace the database. Because search-replace, in theory, can mess up the database, we always ensure the backup is taken before we replace the database.
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  • NewChange to HTTPS
  • NewFix URLs: backup the site & search-replace the database
Live Debugging
Release Date: March 1, 2018
World first WordPress hosting with a live debugging feature.
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  • NewLive Debugging
Logs
Release Date: March 1, 2018
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  • ImprovedFixed bug where PHP, server and other logs are not cleared.
PHP
Release Date: March 1, 2018
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  • ImprovedNow PHP process is not restarted when saving site settings if no PHP change is made
Backups
Release Date: February 17, 2018
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  • ChangedBackup process starts at 02:00 AM local time based on Google region
Screenshots
Release Date: February 15, 2018
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  • ImprovedImproved screenshot quality
  • ChangedScreenshots are taken using Google Chrome browser
New Datacenter
Release Date: February 10, 2018
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  • NewSouth America - Sao Paulo
  • NewAustralia - Sydney
Litespeed cache
Release Date: January 4, 2018
Highlighted Changes
  • ChangedMoved from MU-plugin to a standard plugin
OPcache
Release Date: January 4, 2018
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  • ImprovedFixed a bug where OPcache wasn't flushed after a plugin or theme update
PHP Log parser
Release Date: December 13, 2017
Improved PHP log parser with a DateTime converted to user timezone.
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  • ImprovedPHP Log parser
Restart PHP
Release Date: December 7, 2017
Cache Invalidation page now has "Restart PHP" option which will restart current PHP process, clear OPcache & Object-Cache.
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  • NewRestart PHP
PHP 7.1
Release Date: November 14, 2017
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  • NewPHP 7.1
Crawling DNS records
Release Date: November 11, 2017
Fixed a bug where crawling A, TXT or MX records can have multiple values.
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  • ImprovedCrawling A,MX and TXT records values
PHP process
Release Date: October 29, 2017
Highlighted Changes
  • ImprovedFixed a bug with OPcache
  • ImprovedFixed a bug with object-cache
  • ImprovedFixed a WordPress logout bug
PHP OPcache
Release Date: October 28, 2017
Highlighted Changes
  • ImprovedImproved PHP execution performance
  • NewOption to flush OPcache in WordPress top admin bar
  • NewOption to flush Object-Cache in WordPress top admin bar
  • NewFully managed OPcache flushing on any WordPress update
WordPress XML-RPC
Release Date: October 27, 2017
WordPress XML-RPC is disabled by default due to security reasons. To enable it, go to Site -> Settings -> Security tab.
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  • ChangedXML-RPC is disabled by default
  • NewNew option to enable XML-RPC
Increased default PHP settings
Release Date: October 25, 2017
This values will be used only for new WordPress installations, all current sites remain with the current values. We recommend increasing opcache.memory_consumption to 160MB as we found a simple WordPress site to use around ~60MB.
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  • Changedmemory_limit:128MB
  • Changedopcache.memory_consumption:160MB
Improved cache delivery
Release Date: October 25, 2017
We noticed that some WordPress sites were not able to receive 304 response code when accessing the same cache-able page for the 2nd time. By default, WordPress + Litespeed cache works fine but some plugins overwrite the response headers, preventing browsers to use the E-tag header. Since we do not see any use case why a user should get a 200 response code for the same page accessing for the 2nd time, we forced all cache-able responses to return Cache-Control:no-cache, must-revalidate, max-age=0. This will improve the delivery time as well save a little bandwidth.
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  • NewForced cache-able responses to be delivered without cache-control 'no-store' value.
New Datacenter
Release Date: October 20, 2017
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  • NewSouth East Asia - Singapore