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Enhancing Database Capabilities with Multi-Database and User Management

In the past few months, our team has worked hard to enhance our database features. We've made significant updates to our database management capabilities, giving our customers the ability to manage multiple logical databases on the same server (or cluster) and to create custom database users.

Preview: Cloud 66 New Dashboard to Streamline Application Deployment and Management

If you're a developer looking for an easier way to manage your Rails, JAMstack, or containerized applications, you'll be pleased to know that our team has worked hard to launch a new dashboard that simplifies the process. The new dashboard will be released to general availability next week. Here is a quick preview, let us know your thoughts.

How do you migrate your application to the cloud for the first time?

You don’t have to be an expert to deploy your application to the cloud - 24% of Cloud 66 customers used a PaaS like Heroku in the past and cut their bills by up to 60% after moving to the cloud. Additionally, they gained more control over their own infrastructure and more flexibility in their deployments.

Announcing Wildcard SSL Support

Hey everyone, We've got some exciting news to share - wildcard SSL certificates are now available on Cloud 66! If you're not familiar with wildcard SSL certificates, they allow you to secure multiple subdomains under a single certificate. Our options for adding an SSL certificate to your application are now updated to include the following: To set up a Wildcard certificate on Cloud 66, just open your app on your Dashboard and click Network, then SSL Certificate, and then "Add SSL".

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Jammy Jellyfish is Now Supported!

Announcing support for Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Jammy Jellyfish on all Cloud 66 products (including registered servers). From this point onward, brand-new applications will have Ubuntu 22.04 installed. We will continue to install Ubuntu 20.04 when scaling up servers in an existing application. Don't forget, you can control your target Ubuntu version through your manifest! Ubuntu 22.04 is a Long-Term Support (LTS) release and will receive ongoing app updates and critical security fixes till April 2027.

Deploying Hanami 2.0 Ruby application on AWS

The deployment of Ruby on Rails and Rack frameworks is embedded in Cloud 66’s DNA, but we are always interested to see other Ruby frameworks becoming popular, and happy to support developers who prefer to use them instead of Rails. In this post, we’re going to show you how easy it is to deploy a Hanami Ruby application on AWS cloud with Cloud 66. The recent Hanami v2.0 release brought a lot of incremental upgrades to the framework, which made it more mature.

Failover Groups - Cloud 66 Demo

A failover group is a managed, quick-response DNS address that automatically follows your application's web endpoints. You can connect it to up to two instances of an application at any time - a primary and backup instance. Should you need to switch traffic between your instances, you can flip a switch and your traffic will begin flowing to the backup instance within 5 minutes. What is Cloud 66? Cloud 66 gives you everything you need to build, deploy and maintain your applications on any cloud, without the headache of dealing with “server stuff”.

Application Groups - Cloud 66 Demo

Application Groups are arbitrary collections of your applications that can be deployed simultaneously. Groups are not mutually exclusive - applications can exist in more than one group. What is Cloud 66? Cloud 66 gives you everything you need to build, deploy and maintain your applications on any cloud, without the headache of dealing with “server stuff”. Useful links.

One Cloud 66, One Product

We started Cloud 66 with a single product to deploy any Rails application to any cloud. Then, in 2014, we introduced Cloud 66 for Node; in 2015, Cloud 66 Maestro v1, 2016 Cloud 66 Maestro v2 (Kubernetes), 2019 Cloud 66 Skycap, and finally, Cloud 66 Prepress (Static Sites) was released in 2022. All these products exist to serve a single purpose: deployment of any application to any cloud. Today we are making it easier to do that: we are consolidating all our products into one: Cloud 66!