Category: About sloppy.io

Free SSL certificate on sloppy.io

With its latest update, Google Chrome 68 warns users about websites which are not protected by an SSL certificate. When hosting your website on sloppy.io you receive a Let’s Encrypt SSL certificate for free! Google’s SSL policy Chrome version 68 marks just another step in Google’s long-term approach of promoting SSL protection and demoting non-encrypted …

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New Teams Feature

sloppy.io introduces its new teams feature. Share your projects and collaborate on them with coworkers. The importance of teamwork Where would the web be without the work of teams? While the big companies usually put one face in front, it has always been the collaboration of minds that moves the boundaries and pushes us forward. …

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How two new sloppy.io features helped fixing a grav bug

We’ve just released two new major features for our docker container hosting platform: console access and the opportunity to create snapshots for every container. My initial plan was to demonstrate the snapshot feature by creating a new article in Grav and then reverting to a snapshot version before the article. Grav, which was just awarded “Best Flat File CMS 2017“, is a very cool …

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Databases on Docker: a sloppy.io guide

Regardless of what you might have read or heard about databases on Docker: It’s a thing, and a major one at that. According to Datadog, the second most popular Docker image is Redis, the third most popular image is Elasticsearch, followed by Postgres, and MySQL on places five and six – and finally there’s MongoDB …

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The story behind our name

Over time we have received a lot of questions from our users on why (the hell) we chose the name sloppy.io for our company. Back in 2015 after we finished coding our fully managed docker hosting service, we were looking for an unconventional and catchy name. Our goal was to free developers from time consuming …

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