New Features: Ubuntu 18.04 support

We've now released (optional) support for hosting on ubuntu 18.04. Your existing sites won't change but new sites you create default to 18.04 and you can choose to update your existing sites by editing the Hosting Plan. Ubuntu 16.04 continues to receive security updates until January 2021.

New Features: Site metrics, streamlined SES management

New features we've released in May: better diagnostics and metrics for sites, streamlining the management of SES for email.

New Features - Web-based file manager

Idealstack has a new feature, a web based filemanager that lets you edit, upload and download files without needing an SSH connection (great for making changes on the go).

Faster, dependency free PHP sessions in dynamodb

We've released the session handler that we use to enable transparently, automatically storing sessions in DynamoDB.

Using AWS's new AWS Backups tool to backup PHP/Mysql websites on Idealstack

Using AWS's new AWS Backups tool to backup PHP/Mysql websites on Idealstack.

How to host PHP websites on the AWS cloud - comparing the major options

Comparing the options for hosting PHP based sites and apps on AWS: build something yourself, Elastic Beanstalk, Lightsail or Idealstack?

Backups on ECS/EFS to S3 using Duplicity

How to do backups to S3 when you are using ECS with EFS to persist your data.

Codebuild for PHP - Speeding it up using caching, adding code coverage

To continue our series of codebuild posts - how to use Codebuild's caching to speed up builds, and how to generate reports of code coverage using PHP Unit.

Codebuild for PHP - Deploying using SFTP (to idealstack or any similar system)

How to use codebuild to deploy your code automatically via SSH/SFTP.

Setting up AWS codebuild to test a PHP project

AWS Codebuild provides a reliable, cheap & easy way to automatically run your unit tests with every commit. We explain how to get CodeBuild working well for PHP projects.