It should be possible to choose different php versions on a single server. This is possible in most shared hosting environments and is a big advantage.
It is expensive to create a new server only because you need for example an old php version for a specific application which is not compatible.

the ability to provide a .sh script that will be run after each git deploy if the file cloudways/build.sh is found for exemple.

this way you can run npm install, or anything related to a framework deploy (symfony commands for exemple), or even database migrations

The only way to tell if a cron job has failed is to log in to the console and type mail.

It would be great if these where emailed much like the DenyHosts Messages are.

I think it's essential that the servers are fixed so that if they go down they automatically restart the server especially on digital ocean + vultr

A few times I've had the site receive a traffic spike out of the ordinary and it pulled my sites down until I manually rebooted it. It should be automatic.

Replace libmysql by mysqlnd
(two command lines)

Huge memory savings on read-only queries.

More info at http://slideshare.net/jpauli/mysqlnd

I recommend you use NVM, so that we can install and select whichever version of Node we want. This would also help with permission issues.

It would be great if there's option to enable awstats or similar software to application or server.

many of my clients wants that, dont know why :D

they're getting google analytics reports also.

Allow asynchronous (fast, non-blocking) logging via syslog daemon.

You don't even need to make it a 1-click installation for Loggly, Papertrail, or Splunk.

Just allow us to use the syslog daemon and then we can follow instructions at https://www.loggly.com/docs/php-logs/ or http://help.papertrailapp.com/kb/configuration/configuring-centralized-logging-from-php-apps/ or wherever.

Those instructions say they'd require root access (which Cloudways customers don't have), but it wouldn't require root access if you did the first steps for us.

Thanks!

Hello, since nginx is at front, would be great if cloudways allows us to change nginx config to take care some redirects, like non-www to www.

Example:
cd /usr/share/elasticsearch/

bin/plugin install analysis-phonetic
bin/plugin install analysis-icu

Thanks.

Below i am posting some configuration which is to affect the website performance alot.

This are the best NGINX Features needs to implemented.

addheader X-Frame-Options SAMEORIGIN;
addheader X-Content-Type-Options nosniff;
add_header X-XSS-Protection "1; mode=block";

/ Expire Headers /

location ~* .(css|js|gif|jpeg|jpg|png|svg)$ {

expires 1M;

add_header Pragma public;

add_header Cache-Control public;

add_header Vary Accept-Encoding;

}

Percona DB would be a nice addition to the packages available on Cloudways (if you care about performance).

What You Need to Know About the MariaDB & Percona Forks of MySQL
https://blog.appdynamics.com/database/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-mariadb-percona-forks-of-mysql/

TL,DR summary: MariaDB is better for advanced features, the latest security and adapting to new tech. Percona excels at database performance and diagnostics. Either one will put you in good company with cutting edge technology firms around the world.

In Ireland and the Uk the clock changes twice a year to adjust for BST which becomes GMT+1 this means the server timezone for all apps running London/Dublin location become inaccurate by an hour.

So it would be better if server time zone could match site application time zone (eg Drupal timezone) or else if server timezone can automatically adjust for BST changes.

I think this new compression tool developed by Google, will bring awesome performance benefits to all of us.

Please consider providing a newer stable version of Nginx.

New servers are still installed with 1.8.x which has bugs, most significantly this:

https://trac.nginx.org/nginx/ticket/959

The bug causes major incompatibility between PrestaShop and Nginx when HTTP/2 is enabled. Ie. you can't add products to the shopping cart etc.

I understand that you don't wan't to be first mover on new version, but 1.8 is quite old by now.