You can now fully restart your server directly from within the RunCloud dashboard.

This gives you a fast, controlled way to apply system-level updates, recover from instability, or resolve deep system issues without leaving your RunCloud dashboard.

How to Restart Your Server

In your RunCloud dashboard, navigate to the server you want to restart: 

From here, you can either:

Open the Quick Actions menu, as shown below,

Or, alternatively, navigate to the server’s Settings area and click Restart Server.

And then, click Restart Server.

Upon doing so, you'll be prompted to confirm that you wish to proceed in the modal. 

Once confirmed, your server will begin the restart process.

Restart vs. Reload – What’s the Difference?

Before performing a full server reboot, consider whether a service reload is sufficient.

From the Services tab, you can choose to Reload or Restart individual services, such as:

• NGINX
• OpenLiteSpeed
• PHP-FPM versions
• MariaDB

Reloading a service tells it to re-read its configuration files without terminating the main process or dropping active connections. This is the preferred approach when applying configuration changes.

Restarting a service stops and starts that specific service, which may cause brief downtime for that component.

A full server restart should only be used when necessary, such as:

• Kernel or operating system updates
• A completely unresponsive server
• Deep memory leaks are not resolved by restarting individual services

RunCloud Agent (v2.16.0+3)

What's New

• Improved backward compatibility for incremental backup restorations.
• Added full support for PHP 8.5.
• Implemented new Restart Server logic.

Deployment Information

• This update will roll out automatically to all compatible servers within 72 hours.
• No action is required. The update installs seamlessly in the background.
• If your server does not receive the update within this timeframe, please get in touch with our support team for manual assistance.

OpenLiteSpeed 1.8.5 Release

What’s New

• Upgraded OpenLiteSpeed to v1.8.5

• Includes upstream stability improvements and bug fixes

This release incorporates fixes from the official OpenLiteSpeed 1.8.x branch, focusing on internal stability, protocol handling, and minor edge-case corrections.

For full upstream details, refer to the OpenLiteSpeed 1.8.x release log.

Deployment Information

• Automatic updates will roll out to all compatible servers within 72 hours
• No action required from users for the update process

RunCloud Agent v2.15.2+5

What’s New

• Patch: Improved incremental backup reliability on Ubuntu 20.04.

Deployment Information

• This update will roll out automatically to all compatible servers within 72 hours.
• No action is required. The update installs seamlessly in the background.
• If your server does not receive the update within this timeframe, please get in touch with our support team for manual assistance.

Email Notifications and Critical Email Delivery Updates

We’ve also released improvements to our email notification system:

Reduced Email Volume

• Channel-based filtering: We’ve reduced the number of direct emails for notifications that are already assigned to a specific channel (e.g., Server Health).
• Fallback logic: If no channel is assigned to a notification, it will fall back to the user/owner’s email. However, if a channel is assigned, the notification will be sent only to that channel and not to the user/owner’s inbox.

Auto-Unsuppression for Critical Emails

• Priority delivery: Important emails, such as authentication, subscription, team invitations, and verification alerts, will now be automatically unsuppressed. This ensures users receive essential communications even if their email address was previously flagged or suppressed (due to emails failing to deliver and bouncing back several times). 

PHP Updates Now Available for NGINX

• PHP 8.4.16
• PHP 8.3.29
• PHP 8.2.30
• PHP 8.1.34

Note: If your server runs on OpenLiteSpeed, RunCloud does not handle PHP version updates. However, once a PHP version update becomes available for OpenLiteSpeed, it should also be automatically available on your server(s).

Deleting a server or web application can sometimes leave DNS records behind. If that IP address (or target) is later reassigned, your domain could unexpectedly start pointing somewhere else – commonly referred to as dangling DNS and subdomain takeover.

RunCloud now gives you an option to automatically remove DNS records.

This can be done when deleting a web application:

As well as when deleting an entire server: 

In both cases, you will be able to verify and confirm which DNS records will be removed: 

RunCloud Agent v2.15.2+4 

What’s New

• Improved incremental backup handling for databases
• Improved web application size calculation and handling logic
• Resolved wildcard domain matching issues in Apache configuration

Deployment Information

• This update will roll out automatically to all compatible servers within 72 hours.
• No action is required. The update installs seamlessly in the background.
• If your server does not receive the update within this timeframe, please get in touch with our support team for manual assistance.

PHP Updates Now Available for NGINX

• PHP 8.4.15
• PHP 8.3.28

Note: If your server runs on OpenLiteSpeed, RunCloud does not handle PHP version updates. However, once a PHP version update becomes available for OpenLiteSpeed, it should also be automatically available on your server(s).

Apache Updates

• apache-rc 2.4.66
  • Security-focused release fixing multiple high-impact vulnerabilities such as: 
    • CGI 
    • SSI 
    • mod_userdir/suexec 
    • Windows NTLM hash leakage
    • ACME mod_md)  
  • Minor stability and HTTP/2 improvements

For full release details check the official Apache release notes.

We’ve launched Web App Maintenance Mode, a new feature that lets you temporarily disable any web application without deleting it.

This makes it easy to perform development, debugging, migrations, or simply pause unused sites – all while keeping your files and configurations intact. 

What’s new

• Easily enable maintenance mode for any web application without removing it – all data and configurations will be preserved.
  
  
• Ideal for troubleshooting, maintenance windows, and development work.
  
  
• When ready, simply disable maintenance mode to bring the web application back online. 

This feature is exclusive to Business and Enterprise plans.

Requirements: Requires RunCloud Agent 2.15.1 or later.

Release Version: docker-ingress-routing 4.30

• Fix for Docker network IP unable to capture the user’s real IP on Docker CE 29.0+
• Fix for RCHub issue preventing cache purge on Docker CE 29.0+

PHP Updates Now Available for NGINX

• PHP 8.4.14
• PHP 8.3.27

Note: If your server runs on OpenLiteSpeed, RunCloud does not handle PHP version updates. However, once a PHP version update becomes available for OpenLiteSpeed, it should also be automatically available on your server(s).