What's New✨

We fixed a bug that didn’t allow you to verify a git site if the branch name had a forward slash. We’re happy to report that forward slashes in branch names now work just fine.

Learn about upgrading to a new LTS release.

This helps prevent your site from being hacked through third-party plugin vulnerabilities. Learn more in our Keeping Servers and Sites Secure doc.

It’s also possible to enable specific Nginx security features from the SpinupWP site dashboard.

• “Disallow PHP execution in the uploads folder” – helps prevent your site from being hacked through third-party plugin vulnerabilities.
• “Disable XML-RPC” – disables XML-RPC support, which was an interface for other platforms to communicate with WordPress, but is now replaced by the WP REST API and can be a security concern.

We’ve shipped a redesigned and more functional dashboard!

Before:

After:

Learn how to setup Wasabi for storing site backups in our Wasabi Storage Provider doc.

SpinupWP made it easy to spin up a staging/dev server, but it has still been a pain to create a copy of a production site on another server. But now with server-to-server site cloning, creating a copy of a production site on another server is exactly as easy as doing so on the same server.

Server-to-server cloning can also be used to move a site to another server. Maybe you spin up a fresh server, clone a site to it, test it, and when it’s all good, update the DNS to start serving traffic. You can do that easier than ever now with cloning, but it’s still currently a bit of a pain.

After selecting Clone Site from the site screen…

You’ll be presented with a new option to select the destination server…

You can continue to clone on the same server or choose another server…

Next you enter domain settings, database settings, etc., as you normally would when creating a new site…

As few as 2 mins later you’ll have a perfectly copied site on another server.

We’ve launched the ability to view your backups in SpinupWP, restore one of those backups to the current site, and delete a backup.

We’ve also rearranged things a bit and you can now turn scheduled backups ON/OFF independently from configuring your backups. This allows you to have scheduled backups OFF but still be able to manually run backups with the Backup Now button.

You can now set the timezone of your server in your server settings.

To be clear, this will set the timezone in Ubuntu on your server and is used for things like scheduling backups and date/times in logs. It’s not just a setting in SpinupWP.

You can now also set the timezone in your SpinupWP profile

This will adjust dates/times reported in SpinupWP to use the timezone you set. For example, when you look at events that have occurred, they will be reported using your profile timezone

We’re pleased to announce the immediate availability of PHP 7.4 in SpinupWP! ????

When PHP 7.4 was released back on November 28th, we notified customers that it wouldn’t be available until the php-redis package was updated in the package archive we use. This package was updated, and after some internal testing, we’re happy to add PHP 7.4 to SpinupWP.

But First, Update WP-CLI

Before switching any sites over to using PHP 7.4, you should update WP-CLI to the latest version. Older versions of WP-CLI are not compatible with PHP 7.4. There should be a notice in your server settings that looks like this…

Clicking “Upgrade Instructions” should get you a message like this…

If it’s a different message, you probably have some older server upgrades to execute first before the WP-CLI upgrade can be executed. Run the upgrades until the upgrade message disappears from your server settings screen.

Careful, WordPress 5.3+ Required

Updating your site to use PHP 7.4 is as simple as selecting PHP 7.4 from a dropdown in the SpinupWP dashboard…

When you select PHP 7.4, you will get a warning that WordPress 5.3+ is required and that you should update your site to WordPress 5.3+ before switching to PHP 7.4…

If you choose to continue and then save settings, PHP 7.4 will be installed on your server alongside the previous versions of PHP.

Reverting back to the older version of PHP is also as simple as selecting it from the dropdown and saving. As always, we recommend you first test on a staging site before updating your production site.

If you’re interested in what’s new in PHP 7.4, check out php.net’s migration guide.

Preview images were not generated when you upload a PDF to your WordPress media library. This is now fixed.