Release notes

What’s new in Pixla Hosting

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1.0.0 Latest September 22, 2026

First release of Pixla Hosting.

Added

  • Connect with your Pixla account — Connect to Pixla signs in through pixla.app in your browser, or use an API key from app.pixla.app; no in-app password or registration.
  • Static site hosting — publish a folder of HTML/CSS/JS from your Mac (choose or drag-and-drop) or a built-in sample page, served over a global CDN on a yourname.pixla.app subdomain.
  • Vapor-tier hosting — deploy a Swift server package to its own managed container, with a live build console that streams the remote build output line by line and shows an elapsed timer.
  • Subdomain claim with live availability — checks whether a .pixla.app subdomain is free, taken, or invalid as you type.
  • Server sizing — pick a memory/CPU preset, region, and machine count (with redundancy), and toggle always-on, a dedicated IPv4, and an attached database — both when creating a Vapor site and later from its Server panel.
  • One-click re-publish and re-deploy — the app remembers the folder or project a site was last deployed from and reuses it, with a confirmation before overwriting what's live.
  • Roll back to the previous build — instantly re-run the last good Vapor build with no rebuild.
  • Deploy from GitHub — connect a repository, pick the branch and build subdirectory (for monorepos), deploy the latest commit, and optionally deploy automatically on every push.
  • Cancel and reset stuck deploys — stop watching a deploy and free the runtime to try again, including deploys started elsewhere.
  • Custom domains — attach your own domain with copy-paste DNS records, choose whether visitors land on the apex or www (the other redirects), verify DNS, and get an automatic HTTPS certificate.
  • Privacy-first analytics — cookie-free page-view and visitor stats for the last 30 days, with a daily chart and top pages and referrers.
  • Store — accept payments via Stripe (payouts go straight to your bank) and run the whole shop from three tabs: a searchable, sortable product catalog with images you upload, a link name you control, and a store currency; an order history you can filter, search, export as CSV, and open to see what was bought; and refunds, full or partial, straight from an order. The Payments tab hands you the code to paste into your site — it lists your products and sends buyers to Stripe Checkout — and a one-click link into your own Stripe dashboard for payouts and disputes.
  • Payments that keep themselves current — choose your business country before setting up payments with Stripe; the Payments tab re-checks after Stripe set-up until payments are on; bank-transfer orders show Processing, then Paid or Failed; and orders and products refresh when you come back to the app.
  • Form submissions — view contact, signup, and feedback submissions collected by your site, with their fields, timestamp, and source page.
  • Managed Postgres database (Vapor tier) — see status, region, and size; rotate credentials; and restore the database to a point in time.
  • Environment variables (Vapor tier) — add and remove custom variables for your server, with Pixla-managed variables shown as read-only.
  • Server logs (Vapor tier) — view recent output from your site's server, coloured by severity.
  • Delete a site safely — type-to-confirm deletion that tears down files, and for Vapor sites the server and database too.
  • Legal and support built in — read the bundled EULA, open Privacy/Terms/Notices, and file a bug report or feedback with app and system diagnostics pre-filled.

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