One of our most requested features is support for custom servers – both custom VPS and bare metal. With the introduction of Virtual Server Providers, we’re finally able to make this feature a reality.
One of the elements we tried to avoid was forcing a user to run a long custom script or specialized commands in order to provision the server. Instead, a custom server just needs to meet the following relatively easy requirements:
- Have a basic installation of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (no other software such as nginx, php etc. should be installed.)
- The “root” user must have an SSH certificate installed and you should be in possession of the related private key.
- The server must be publicly accessible across the internet and you must know its public IP.
- It must have its SSH port open (port 22)
- HTTP and HTTPS ports (80 and 443 respectively) must be opened as well.
Once the server has been prepped to satisfy these points, it’s a simple two-step process to connect and deploy it on the WPCloudDeploy platform:
- Connect your server to WPCD
- Deploy your server on WPCD
This feature means that you can now deploy servers from most cloud providers and even bare-metal servers from dedicated hosting farms.
This feature is now available in Version 4.0.0 of WPCloudDeploy – it is being released as an add-on as well as part of the All Access suite.
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