Uberspace 7 manual

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Uberspace is a hosting platform targeted at people who want to look behind the scenes, do things we didn’t anticipate and generally prefer working with a text-based console. Our objective is to not only host the content you’d like to see on the web, but also to introduce you to Linux and basic shell usage.

Tip

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Changelog

Latest Version: 7.11.4 (2021-08-19)

Added

  • We added a rate limit of 10 requests/sec for two common Wordpress paths: ~.*/wp-login.php and ~.*/xmlrpc.php. These are (for now) based on $server_name only. (This was already rolled out via hotfix some weeks ago)…
  • We now use a a stricter rate limit of 30 requests/min for these request. This is subject to ongoing tweaking and will probably be reduced further in the future (and based also on IP).
  • We now accept strict TLS connections for SMTP relaying on port 465.
  • Added Erlang OTP 24 (along with recent versions for 21, 22 and 23).
  • Elixir was updated too, for the OTP version mentioned above.
  • The npx binary for Node.js is now exposed, based on your selected version.
  • The php-config binary for PHP is now exposed, based on your selected version.

Changed

  • We now limit the number of recipients for SMTP relaying to 100.
  • We now actually limit the max size for mails to 25 MB. (This is stated in our community rules for a long time, but we had not yet enforced it on U7).
  • The uberspace mail domain list command now displays DNS INVALID next to unverified mail domains (along with the time of the last check). While the tool responsible for checking these runs around every 30 seconds, failed MX checks will be retried at most every 3 minutes.
  • We now rotate /var/log/wtmp daily (default was by size) and set the retention period to 7 days.
  • We now delete TLS certificates immediately after removal of domains / accounts (before they where “garbage collected” eventually).
  • We increased some Pigeonhole settings for Sieve: sieve_max_redirects (up to 20 form 4) and sieve_max_actions (up to 64 form 32).
  • nano is now the default editor set by shell profile via $EDITOR and $VISUAL.
  • /opt/nginx/conf/mime.types is now world-readable (i.e. you can include it in your own settings).

Removed

  • Removed Python 3.4 and 3.5.
  • Deprecated Node.js v10. Will be removed soon.

Fixed

  • PHP now uses a per-user session save path (/var/lib/php-sessions/{{account}}/) to allow garbage collection. Before this change, garbage collection failed because of missing permissions.
  • We added our self compiled Python 3.9 to the $CPATH via shell profile. So you no longer have to do that manually before installing compiled packages (e.g. uwsgi).

For more information see the full changelog.

Note

Sometimes the version shown on your host may be higher than the newest version here. In this case we might have applied additional fixes shortly after a release or did internal changes without user impact. We deem updates like these hotfixes and they are not necessarily included in this changelog.