Cloudron 8 Released

[girish]

You can read the announcement here.

Features:

• Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
• IPv6 Only Servers
• Dashboard List View
• API Docs
• Reworked Filter UI
• Login Page Background
• File Manager Dark Mode
• deSEC Integration
• App Notes
• Admin Checklist
• OpenID everywhere - over 60 apps now support OIDC
• Troubleshooting tool - cloudron-support --troubleshoot as one stop tool if dashboard is down
• App Resources - Memory Limit and CPU limit changes
• System Resolver is now systemd-resolved
• Non-AVX Servers . Works on ZimaBoard again
• Hetzner Storage Box + SSHFS is now 1000x faster

Other Notable Changes:

• Backups: a long standing issue that backups used to get stuck at zero Mbps is now fixed.
• Dashboard: font and color improvements
• notfound page: better message when navigating by IP address
• CIFS: enable seal encryption by default
• NFS: disable rpcbind service. we only support nfsv4 mounting
• OVH Storage: Fix location URLs and add RBX region
• AMI: IMDv2 support
• Mailer: add html version of test mail
• Backups: fix issue with s3 backend where files missing in remote was not detected correctly
• Backup cleaner: do not remove the backup in progress

[jdaviescoates]

@girish said in Cloudron 8 Released:

Hetzner Storage Box + SSHFS is now 1000x faster

Oooh. I'm still on Hetzner Storage Box + CIFS which seems to have got 2x slower (ie backups started taking twice as long).

So I guess worth me exploring using SSHFS instead?

[nebulon]

@jdaviescoates yes sshfs with storage box will be a lot lot faster then.

[imc67]

@nebulon said in Cloudron 8 Released:

@jdaviescoates yes sshfs with storage box will be a lot lot faster then.

Do you have a configuration advice?

• tgz or rsync (for 100GB+ Nextcloud)

• according to the docs sub-accounts didn’t work, does it work now?

• Port 22 or 23?

[nebulon]

The sshfs changes mostly benefit the rsync method, as the change is to run server-side copy/hardlinking via running commands over ssh.

I personally use hetzner storage box with sshfs for rsync + hardlinks on port 23 and no subaccount, which works really well by now.

[imc67]

@nebulon said in Cloudron 8 Released:

The sshfs changes mostly benefit the rsync method, as the change is to run server-side copy/hardlinking via running commands over ssh.

I personally use hetzner storage box with sshfs for rsync + hardlinks on port 23 and no subaccount, which works really well by now.

WOW this is shocking fast!

I tried sshfs / rsync / Storagebox on one of the 3 Cloudrons (25 apps mainly low profile WP, 20 users/30 mailboxes, 80GB disk usage):

• Normally via CIFS/tgz it was average 10 minutes
• First time via sshfs/rsync it took 31 minutes
• But .... second time via sshfs/rsync it took less than 1 minute!!!

Thanks guys for this huge improvement!

[imc67]

Update:
This is really a huge improvement, I manually updated the last Cloudron to 8.0.3 and then 8.0.4. Reconfigured backups to Storagebox/rsync/sshfs.

Diskusage is 260GB of which Nextcloud is 175GB and email 27GB altogether 25 apps:

• Previous cifs/tgz backup took approximately 3 hours
• First backup with sshfs/rsync took 1 hour and 40 minutes!
• Second backup right after the first took 4 MINUTES!!

It’s a miracle and hard to believe it’s true after years of waiting for faster backups.