Changelog

• New design: The new layout makes it easier to find the endpoints and their available parameters.

• More language options: From Curl to Go and everything in between, there is an example for the programming language of your choice.

• Requests and response logs: Test your requests right from the website and quickly see the response logs. The website now stores and shows you requests you have made using your API key, including their responses.

• Share a request: Quickly grab a URL to share with your team. Shared request URLs take you straight to the request log.

• Improvements to v2 docs: For customers on the New Experience, we have made documentation improvements across the board. Expect further improvements in the next few weeks as we add better docs for filtering, sorting, and side-loading, powerful aspects of the new API.

Go to the API Reference →

We have started to make improvements to the Billing page of the New Maxihost Experience.

Instead of being directed to the billing portal, when going to Settings & Members -> Billing you are now able to see and update your payment methods and your account invoices.

You can now save the configuration of the server when reinstalling it.

Deploy configs allows you to know exactly how a new reinstall will execute based on pre-selected configurations of a server. This makes sure that even if you have multiple team members, they know how a server should be reinstalled when they have to do it.

This is the initial feature on a series of planned improvements for reinstalls and deployments. In the future, you will be able to track how a server was previously deployed and save a deploy config as a template, so it can be used for new server deployments and reinstalls across your fleet.

Customers on the new Maxihost experience can start using this today.

Today, dozens of partners are joining Maxihost's growing network. For the full list, please visit the Network page.

Miami

• Akamai DDoS - AS32787

• Cloudflare - AS13335

• CriticalHUB - AS23114

• Hurricane - AS6939

• OVH - AS16276

• ServerHUB - AS62904

• Softlayer - AS36351

• Tigo - AS13489

Chicago

• Akamai - AS20940

• Amazon - AS16509

• Apple - AS714

• Charter - AS20115

• Charter - AS7843

• Cloudflare - AS13335

• Dropbox - AS19679

• Facebook - AS32934

• Hurricane - AS6939

• i3D - AS49544

• Microsoft - AS8075

• Softlayer - AS36351

Los Angeles

• Charter - AS7843

• Google - AS15169

• Cloudflare - AS13335

• Colt - AS8220

• Etisalat - AS8966

• GLBB Japan - AS55900

• GSL NET - AS137409

• i3D - AS49544

• Microsoft - AS8075

• OVH - AS16276

• ServerHUB - AS62904

• Softlayer - AS36351

• TeleMalaysia - AS4788

• Telstra - AS4637

• Transtel - AS32098

• Verizon - AS15133

• VPLS NET - AS35908

New York City

• Google - AS15169

• Akamai - AS20940

• Amazon - AS16509

• Apple - AS714

• Cloudflare - AS13335

• Etisalat - AS8966

• Facebook - AS32934

• Fibrenoire - AS22652

• Hurricane - AS6939

• i3D - AS49544

• Linode - AS63949

• Microsoft - AS8075

• OVH - AS16276

• Shaw - AS6327

• Softlayer - AS36351

• Verizon - AS15133

Dallas

• Apple - AS714

• i3D - AS49544

• ICTX - AS35847

• Facebook - AS32934

• Amazon - AS16509

• Cloudflare - AS13335

• Linode - AS63949

• Microsoft - AS8075

• Akamai - AS20940

• Softlayer - AS36351

• Hurricane - AS6939

Santiago

• Tecnec - AS263793

We are introducing four new instant servers, a new nomenclature to help identify them, and renaming older generation servers. We are excited to add an ARM server to the fleet, powered by the Ampere eMAG processor. Deploy a second-generation server now →

The newest version of CentOS is now generally available. This Operating System can be deployed to any server in all regions.

Go to the dashboard →

This new feature allows you to group servers related to the same project within the same data center, enabling private communication between them. This is useful in a number of instances where you don't want or need traffic from specific servers going through the internet.

For example, if you have a server running a database that needs to communicate with a web app on a different server, you could have the database server connect privately to the web app server, increasing security and reliability. Another common use case is if you are managing services like DHCP.

Private VLAN packets do not go through the network layer and traffic is not filtered in any way. Maxihost does not charge for traffic on Private VLANs, either inbound or outbound.

To learn more about this new functionality and access documentation, go to the Help Center.

The newest version o Ubuntu is now available on the platform for all servers and regions.

Deploy with Ubuntu 20.04 →

It's not uncommon to run a couple of workloads on a traditional cloud provider only to get a massive invoice at the end of the month. It is frustrating to find out after you get locked in with them that you will be paying a lot more than anticipated.

One of the most impactful costs in your cloud bill is egress bandwidth — or how much traffic went out of your servers and into the internet — so we built an interactive chart to help you better calculate your bandwidth costs with different vendors.

View the bandwidth comparison chart →

Custom scripts help you run arbitrary commands on your server on its very first boot. With variables, you can extend these commands to use data that is not yet available when a deployment is requested.

For instance, you could write a custom script to send the hostname, IP and password of your recently deployed server to a Slack channel, or add it to your Ansible inventory, or both!

Custom scripts variables are incredibly helpful to make initial changes to your servers or making sure they check-in to your infrastructure automatically.

Available variables and an example of how it can be used can be found on the Help Center →

We are building a new dashboard experience from the ground up to better help you manage and understand your infrastructure. The new experience is a lot faster and includes some much-requested new features, such as the ability to have multiple accounts. We also think you will love the design we carefully put together for you.

All Maxihost customers can expect to see the updated dashboard over the next few months, but you can sign up for the beta right now and gain access to the new experience in only a couple of weeks.

All you have to do is fill out the form, and we will let you know as soon as the beta is available for testing. Everyone is welcome, customer or not.

Sign up for the beta →

We are drastically improving the way API keys are managed from the dashboard.

Starting today you can create multiple API keys for your account, give them a name and see when they were created and last used. These API keys can also be revoked, streamlining the process of rolling your keys when you need to.

You can now deploy RAID 0 or RAID 1 arrays from the dashboard and API. Supports all servers with 2 or more disks.

Read more

Starting today, deployments of Type 1 and Type 2 servers will come with new processors. 

Type 1 is getting an upgrade from the E3-1240v6 to the E-2134, and Type 2 now gets two additional cores with the E-2176G instead of the same E3-1240v6.

As we near CentOS 6 end of life in November, we are discontinuing new deployments of this Operating System from our platform.

Mist.io, an open-source multi-cloud management platform, now officially integrates with Maxihost.

With the new integration you'll be able to connect to, deploy, and manage your Maxihost servers straight from Mist.io. It's an incredible platform if you're running a hybrid cloud and want to manage everything from a single place.

To get started, sign up for an account with Mist.io and add your Maxihost credentials from the Clouds page.

Today we have quite a few direct peers and internet exchanges joining our network. Here is the list:

Direct Peers

• São Paulo: Seaborn Networks

• Miami: Microsoft and Akamai

• Los Angeles: Facebook, Apple, and Akamai

Internet Exchanges

• Los Angeles: Any2Exchange

• New York: DE-CIX

• Dallas: DE-CIX