A huge thank you to our beta testers who have been putting the platform through its paces. Your feedback helped us identify and resolve several critical bugs and race conditions that were causing cloud server deployments to fail. We've addressed the majority of these issues, and while we may have introduced a few new quirks along the way, the platform is substantially more stable than before.
Publications
- Redesigned the public publications page (again). Articles are much easier to find and more optimized for mobile.
Pricing
- We further refined the public pricing for the cloud instances (now called Spark Instances). You can more easily see exactly how much your machine configurations and upgrades are going to cost. We also added an explanation for how we price permanent upgrades https://carpathian.ai/pricing
Sponsorships
- We introduced a new sponsorship program for open source contributors
Security & Infrastructure
- Security improvements to the hypervisors and cloud VMs
- Resolved issues with the automated infrastructure provisioning
- Enhanced user security with more granular permissions (superusers will update automatically)
Design & User Experience
- Large overhaul of the design across platform to improve the visual consistency
- Many of the pages have been improved for mobile and the dashboard sidebar collapse function has been refined
- Redesigned the dashboard to display expanded statistics and metrics for better visibility into infrastructure usage and performance
- Redesigned server cards with improved layouts and information hierarchy so it's a lot easier to manage and monitor virtual machines
Performance & Functionality
- Refined the live updates on the cloud page so users can see as-they-happen changes to their instance metrics and statuses
- We FINALLY added VM upgrade capabilities! Users can now scale their virtual machine resources up or down based on changing workload requirements
- Fixed some critical bugs in the provision server and webserver launch processes that were causing deployment failures
- Added some bootstrapping tasks for new users to improve instance deployment times
- We added more strict bot detection to the domain parking and refined the tracking and payout functionality
In Development
- Teams are almost finished – Users will be able to add new members to their organizations with granular permission control
- Reseller accounts are being tested. We're experimenting with allowing users to create reseller accounts so that they can host and manage client resources
- More beta tester slots will be created at the launch of 11.4
To test out the platform, sign up at https://carpathian.ai/beta-test
Again, huge thanks to the beta testers! Be sure to follow for more company updates.
You can get support by emailing us at info@carpathian.ai or join our subreddit at https://www.reddit.com/r/carpathianai/