In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, speed isn’t just a luxury—it’s a necessity. Whether you’re a small business owner or managing a major enterprise, the performance of your website directly impacts your bottom line. The statistics are clear: even a mere 100 milliseconds of delay can cost you 1% in sales, as Amazon famously discovered. When milliseconds mean money, investing in a high-performance website is one of the most crucial decisions you can make to enhance your Return on Investment (ROI).
At Servebolt, we’ve taken this truth to heart. Our company was founded almost a decade ago with the belief that web hosting platforms and their hardware infrastructure can and should be optimized more than what was previously done to achieve faster website speeds. We prioritize speed above everything else, and we believe that it can only be achieved by doing things that are out of the ordinary. Our mission is to provide you with top-of-the-line managed hosting solutions without any compromises.
It all began with our revamped brand identity and completely redesigned Servebolt.com, which better aligns with our modern and clear perspective. Today marks a pivotal chapter in our Servebolt saga! After nearly two years of work overhauling every aspect of our stack, today, we unveil a complete platform rebuild from the ground up.
Our brand-new platform features customized and optimized PHP and MariaDB, an innovative new Operating System, a brand-new centralized Admin Panel, and a robust API designed to push the boundaries of what’s possible in web hosting. Today, we are proud to introduce our next-generation platform, meticulously crafted to ensure your website not only meets but exceeds the highest performance standards. This is more than an update—it’s a leap forward into the future of hosting technology.
This rebuild aligns with the values at the core of our company: we’re building a sustainable and fast internet by creating a global, faster, and more efficient website hosting infrastructure that’s accessible to everyone.
Revolutionizing Website Performance with the Servebolt Next-generation Platform
It all starts with speed. Our comprehensive platform rebuild isn’t just about incremental improvements; it’s about a holistic transformation from the ground up. With this overhaul, we’ve redefined the benchmarks for website speed, security, and scalability. We understand that every second your customers spend waiting is a lost opportunity. This is why we’ve invested nearly two years refining every component of our stack, creating a hosting solution that delivers unmatched speed and reliability.
In any hosting environment, hardware and software are the twin pillars. Our journey toward excellence began with the upgrade of our Oslo data center’s hardware infrastructure. Subsequently, we poured thousands upon thousands of development hours into forging the most modern software suite available today. Every aspect of our hardware is precisely configured, trimmed down, slimmed down, and highly optimized, while each layer of software is honed to perfection, resulting in a finely tuned, high-performance ecosystem.
Our new Servebolt platform brings together cutting-edge hardware and software optimized to work in perfect harmony. This synergy translates to faster load times, quicker responses, and smoother user experiences.
At Servebolt, we’re not just keeping pace; we’re setting the standard. Our next-generation platform epitomizes adaptability and capability, delivering a streamlined, scalable solution that consistently aligns with the evolving needs of our customers. Engineered for enhanced efficiency, productivity, and dependability, our new platform represents a paradigm shift in hosting services. Whether you’re running a high-traffic e-commerce site or managing an information-rich portal, our platform ensures you provide your users with an experience that keeps them engaged and coming back for more.
The Servebolt next-gen platform serves as the bedrock of our service infrastructure, powering both our current stack and future offerings. It underpins our core competitive advantages, blending scientific rigor with technological prowess. With a foundation built for optimal performance, we’re committed to delivering unparalleled service to our clients.
Unlock Your Website’s Revenue Potential: The Power of Servebolt Linux 8
Servebolt has always been committed to pushing the boundaries of speed, security, and scalability in web hosting. With Servebolt Linux, we’re taking that commitment to the next level.
Servebolt Linux stands as our bespoke operating system, meticulously crafted and maintained in-house to power the Servebolt Cloud.
Tailored specifically for lightning-fast hosting performance, it’s engineered to optimize every facet of your website’s operation, ensuring unparalleled speed and reliability. It implements hundreds, if not thousands, of optimizations for both hardware and software components. Servebolt Linux provides the basis for the exceptional performance every Bolt delivers. The current version, Servebolt Linux 7.9 – Jono, will soon reach the end of life (EOL), and all Servebolt customers will be upgraded to our newest – Servebolt Linux 8.
Servebolt Linux 8 is the next-gen Servebolt Linux distribution aimed specifically at our performance-first approach. It is optimized for maximum speed at all levels and maximum utilization of our hardware, which means better performance. This ensures that your website or store is faster in the Servebolt Cloud.
But before diving into what Servebolt Linux 8 is, let’s take a step back and consider the “why.”
Why Servebolt Linux?
We believe your website deserves more than just hosting. It deserves an experience that delights your visitors, unlocks your website’s potential, empowers your business, and leaves your competitors in the dust.
Servebolt Linux is designed to deliver exceptional web performance and security and implements numerous optimizations for everything from hardware features to networking, disk access, system services, and the Servebolt Cloud hosting stack.
Servebolt Linux is not just another hosting solution. It’s a philosophy – a commitment to excellence in every aspect of your website’s performance. Our deeply rooted values of being inclusive, accessible, and sustainable are the foundations upon which we build every component of our platform. We go beyond simply adding features – we built our entire stack with efficiency at its core. Unlike others who rely on resource-heavy caching for speed, Servebolt Linux 8 optimizes the OS for your specific workload, minimizing power consumption. This eliminates the need for complex caching strategies and frees up resources, making your website fly without environmental harm.
Did you know that Servebolt Linux 8 surpassed our competition by a significant margin on the WP Hosting Benchmarks 2023 despite being live for just one week? It’s amazing, isn’t it? Servebolt Linux 8 proved to be a game-changer. The first migrated websites reported a 49.29% reduction in response time, which dropped to an impressive 75%, effectively tripling the site’s speed. All of this was achieved by simply upgrading to Servebolt Linux 8.
A Leap Forward In Hosting World
Here are some of the noticeable benefits you’ll get with Servebolt Linux 8:
- Improved manageability – With Servebolt Linux 8, you can rest assured that all supported versions of PHP can be seamlessly managed simultaneously. This means that you can easily switch between PHP versions for all your environments, giving you the power and flexibility you need to optimize your website’s performance effortlessly.
- Unwavering security – Servebolt Linux is tailored to improve system security and help you save costs by avoiding the use of excess compute resources. Servebolt will continuously fix vulnerabilities in Servebolt Linux to improve system security.
- DevOps velocity – Our modern and agile platform provides us with the ability to iterate and innovate at a faster pace while scaling and adapting to changing business requirements with ease. This results in increased security and usability of your environment, creating a solid foundation for subsequent actions. For us, it allows for the creation of new features at a faster rate, such as additional development tools, statistics, enhanced performance, and better integrations.
- Git deploy scripts are now available on Servebolt Linux 8. You can trigger any script before and after pulling your git repository. You can also clone a publicly available repository using the git feature. Thanks to our revamped git hooks, you can deploy your code faster to your hosting. Our platform provides all necessary developer tools, including SFTP, SSH, rsync, scp, git, and webhooks. We seamlessly integrate with your favorite continuous integration platforms and deployment tools.
- More performance—In the latest version of Servebolt OS, Nginx has been removed and Apache now directly handles all HTTP requests. Servebolt Linux 8 features a newer custom-built Linux kernel and a software stack that is optimized to deliver web content. This enables Servebolt Linux 8 to extract maximum performance from your web applications.
What About Our Existing Customers?
After extensive testing of our new platform and infrastructure with the assistance of some of our amazing partners and clients, we received highly positive feedback, resulting in an excellent overall experience. Across the board, the sites reported significant increases in speed and significantly reduced resource usage.
In the meantime, we understand that many of you may be curious and eager to switch to the new Servebolt Linux 8 immediately. However, the upgrades will happen gradually through a wave of upgrades, for which you will be notified in advance.
Introducing Our Full-featured Public Servebolt API
You’ve been enjoying automation with our API, right? Servebolt’s REST API is a powerful tool designed to allow a streamlined and efficient way to easily access and interact with your Servebolt environment and projects, allowing you to retrieve data, perform actions, and automate tasks efficiently.
Now, our API is becoming our new superpower, offering unparalleled automation capabilities. Both our new Servebolt API and Admin Panel are poised to revolutionize how we and our clients engage with our Cloud, fostering innovation built on the Servebolt Cloud, potentially even beyond our own creations.
The Servebolt API has grown substantially, introducing numerous new endpoints to complement its existing services. Let’s explore these additions and highlight how they enrich the management of Servebolt services.
The new Servebolt API allows for an improved and more streamlined approach to working with our platform and integrating the Servebolt next-gen stack into your own systems/methodology.
Cron jobs can be created and modified directly from the API.
In fact, you will be able to do everything with the API that you can currently do via the Admin Panel. Businesses and developers can now build tightly integrated workflows around the Servebolt ecosystem. For agencies, the API will be an absolute game changer since it enables customers to build custom Admin Panels.
Unleash the power of automation and increase efficiency with the convenience of Servebolt API. Get started today!
Meet the Servebolt Admin Panel
This one-year-old project involved deleting thousands of lines of old code, creating a completely new file structure on the backend, and doing lots of work on a fancier front end.
The nature and architecture of our new Admin Panel, being a focal part of the Servebolt stack, is to offer manageability for products and allow us to develop and release more customer-facing on-the-fly features.
All features in the new Admin panel are also available as APIs. This enables our customers to integrate the management and administration of their hosting in Servebolt Cloud into their own systems, applications, and automatic workflows.
The new Servebolt Admin Panel features an improved user experience. The main goal behind the new Admin Panel was to create a simple, easy-to-use, and personalized working platform for our customers. It reflects our belief that high-quality service should be evident even in the smallest interface details of the tools we provide.
The Servebolt Difference: Innovation Meets Excellence
Today, our efforts have culminated in the triumphant launch of key projects that have been years in the making. This isn’t merely a celebration of our achievements; it’s a testament to our unwavering commitment to innovation and excellence.
Servebolt’s commitment to innovation is reflected in every aspect of our new platform. From our advanced Servebolt Linux 8 to our fully-featured API and revamped Admin Panel, we’re providing you with the tools you need to outperform the competition. Our focus is on delivering a faster, more efficient, and more secure hosting experience that helps you drive sales and maximize ROI.
Join us in this new era of website performance. Upgrade to Servebolt’s next-generation platform today and see the difference that speed, security, and scalability can make for your business. Welcome to the future of performance. Welcome to Servebolt.
