We’ve been busy behind the scenes making WPOps hosting better, faster, and smarter. Here’s what’s changed:
Uptime Monitoring
Your sites are now monitored around the clock from an independent location. Every five minutes, we check both the infrastructure health and your WordPress response time.
What this means for you:
- We know when something’s wrong before you do
- Automatic alerting when issues are detected
- 90 days of uptime history for trend analysis
- Peace of mind that your site is being watched
This runs completely independently of your hosting infrastructure, so even if something goes wrong with the servers, the monitoring keeps working.
Scale to Zero for Dev Sites
Development and staging sites can now “sleep” when you’re not using them. When someone visits, the site wakes up automatically.
What this means for you:
- Dev sites are effectively free
- No need to remember to pause/unpause
- Sites wake in under a minute when needed
- Perfect for staging environments and client demos
This is the feature that makes having proper dev/staging environments affordable. Build and test without worrying about idle server costs.
Spot Instance Support
Production sites can now run on Google’s Spot VMs, which are significantly cheaper than standard compute. We run two replicas to ensure your site stays available even if one instance is reclaimed.
What this means for you:
- Lower hosting costs for the same performance
- No availability trade-offs for production sites
- Automatic failover if an instance is reclaimed
- Savings passed directly to you
Improved Cache Clearing
The “Clear Caches” button in the admin dashboard now does a proper job. It clears everything: WordPress transients, page builder caches, object cache, and restarts the pods to flush PHP’s opcode cache.
What this means for you:
- One button clears everything, properly
- You can see the progress as it runs
- No more “have you tried clearing the cache?” back-and-forth
- Works for Breakdance, Elementor, W3 Total Cache, and more
Site Grouping
If you have multiple sites (like dev/staging/production versions), they now appear grouped together in the admin dashboard. Easier to manage, easier to find what you’re looking for.
Documentation Browser
The admin dashboard now has a built-in documentation browser. Search and browse platform documentation without leaving the admin interface.
Per-Site Backups
Each site now backs up independently rather than all sites backing up together. This means faster, more reliable backups and easier restoration if something goes wrong.
What’s backed up:
- Your WordPress database
- Your site files (themes, plugins, uploads)
- Your media library (if using GCS offload)
Backups run daily with 28-day retention. You will soon also be able to create on-demand snapshots before risky changes (for now, please get in touch and I’ll happily create a snapshot for you).
Better Performance Caching
We’ve tuned the Memcached caching layer to work better with your page builders. Database queries and WordPress objects are cached locally on each server node, which means faster page loads and less database load.
Coming Soon
We’re always working on improvements. If there’s something you’d like to see, just let us know.