What's New✨

We’ve managed to significantly reduce the default memory footprint of MySQL. It now works well for new servers with just 1 GB of memory. MySQL will now restart itself if it crashes as well.

Site cloning allows you to quickly create a complete copy of an existing site on SpinupWP, which includes all files, the database, and server configuration (Nginx and PHP-FPM). Cloning is useful for creating staging sites and for quickly testing server configuration changes. For example, you could test upgrading your site to a newer version of PHP in an isolated manner without impacting your production site.

To clone a site, head over to the site’s settings screen and click ‘Clone Site’ in the top right corner.

This will open the site cloning wizard, where you can configure the new domain, database, and site settings (PHP version, page cache). For git-based sites, you will also be able to select the new branch to check out and modify your deploy script (if required).

We’ve deployed what we call Domain Redirects. Previously you could add Alternate Domains in addition to your Primary Domain and they would all be configured to serve your site:

So if you visited one of these Alternate Domains, the domain would stay in the browser bar:

But oftentimes you don’t want the domain to stay in the browser bar. You want it to 301 redirect. So we’ve reworked the UI here, giving each domain its own text field with a toggle button to make it a redirect:

Now you can 301 redirect any of the Additional Domains to the Primary Domain with a simple click.

When provisioning a new server, you’ll see a newer version of Nginx (1.16).

A newer release of MariaDB (10.4) is available as an option when provisioning a new server.

When provisioning a new server, you will now have MySQL 8 as an option.

If there’s a whole section of your site that you want exempt from the full page caching, you can now specify the URL path in the new Page Cache settings screen:

You can also adjust the cache expiration time.

If the server you’re connecting to is running SSH on a port other than the default port 22, you can now specify it when first provisioning the server, or change it later on from the server settings screen:

You can see global events in the navigation bar – an awesome UI improvement.

Now no matter where you navigate in SpinupWP, you will always see events that are running and when they complete. And if you’re working in a team, you can see the events both you and your teammates are currently running and have run in the past.

You can offer your friends $50 in SpinupWP credits and earn $25 in credits for yourself. No need to sign up, your unique referral link and dashboard can be found right inside your SpinupWP account. Look for “Give a Friend $50” under your account drop-down in the upper right.

When you share the news about SpinupWP using your unique referral link and someone signs up, they’ll get a $50 credit for their new account after 30 days.

As a bonus, you’ll earn a $25 credit for your own account after 30 days and once they spend $25.

Know of someone who could be a good fit for SpinupWP? Make their day by sharing your referral link with them today to give them $50 in SpinupWP credits. Share your link on Twitter, your blog, via email, anywhere you like. The people you refer will see the credit offer at checkout.

Prior to today, if you wanted to change the primary domain of a site you had to create a new site in SpinupWP then manually copy files, update configurations, and run find and replace operations. It was painful and you, our customers, told us as much.

Today this pain disappears.

Changing the primary domain of a site in SpinupWP is now as easy as updating the domain in the site settings and clicking Save!

When you change the primary domain, SpinupWP will rename a bunch of files and folders on your server, run find and replace operations against files and your site’s database, and verify the configuration before flipping the switch. If verification fails, it rolls everything back so that your old domain continues to function while you figure out what went wrong. For a full list of all the operations performed when you change the primary domain of a site, see our documentation.

After changing the primary domain we recommend you test your site thoroughly and check any Nginx config files you might have added or customized. Also, please be aware that changing the primary domain can negatively impact SEO if the old domain is not redirected properly. Changing the primary domain will result in a short period (~1 min) of downtime while SpinupWP moves config files around, generates new HTTPS certificates and restarts Nginx and PHP-FPM.

Changing the primary domain of a site is actually a prerequisite of some of the other features on our roadmap, including site cloning and temporary domains.

If you’ve cringed every time you created a site because you couldn’t define the database table prefix, you’ll be pleased to know that you now can!