Release Notes

Sep 2022

Sep 19

• Arm-Based Cloud Server is now available in Hong Kong.

Jul 2022

Jul 19

• Rocky Linux 9 is now available.

Jun 2022

Jun 27

• High Storage Cloud Server is now available in Hong Kong.

Jan 2022

Jan 31

• Dedicated Cloud is now available in Singapore.

Dec 2021

Dec 17

• Dedicated Cloud is now available in Hong Kong.

Nov 2021

Nov 3

• Windows 11 ISO (English/ Traditional Chinese/ Simplified Chinese) is now available.

Oct 2021

Oct 15

• Asterisk - One-Click Apps are now available.

Sep 2021

Sep 29

• Ubuntu 20 with LAMP and Ubuntu 20 with LEMP - One-Click Apps are now available.

Sep 24

• Windows Server 2022 (English/ Traditional Chinese/ Simplified Chinese) OS templates are now available.

• Magento and Joomla! (based on Ubuntu 20) - One-Click Apps are now available.

Sep 10

• WordPress (based on Ubuntu 20) - One-Click Apps is now available.

Aug 2021

Aug 24

• Rocky Linux 8 and Debian 11 OS templates are now available.

Jun 2021

Jun 29

• Load Balancers is officially launched today which is now available in Hong Kong, Singapore and Japan. Users can maximize the capabilities of their applications by distributing traffic among multiple cloud servers regionally and globally.

Jun 02

• We recently changed the product name of Standard Cloud Server to General Purpose Cloud Servers and Dedicated CPU Cloud Servers to Compute Optimized Cloud Servers.
• Memory Optimized and Compute Optimized with dedicated vCPU are now available in Singapore.
• Pricing for Memory Optimized has decreased. For the latest information on available plans and pricing, please see our pricing page.
• High-Frequency CPU cloud servers reached the end of life today and were removed from the control panel and API.

Apr 2021

Apr 28

• AlmaLinux 8 OS template and ISO are now available.

• China Direct CN2 Route is now available for Tokyo Cloud Servers. This route is backed by the top three carriers in China, including China Telecom, China Unicom, and China Mobile, ensuring high capacity, superior performance, solid reliability, and excellent speed.

Apr 20

• China Direct CN2 Route is now available for Singapore Cloud Servers. This route is backed by the top three carriers in China, including China Telecom, China Unicom, and China Mobile, ensuring high capacity, superior performance, solid reliability, and excellent speed.

Feb 2021

Feb 01

• Dedicated GPU is now available as an add-on option for High Frequency CPU and Dedicated CPU Cloud Servers specially designed for Artificial Intelligence (AI), Parallel Computations and Graphics-Intensive Applications.

Jan 2021

Jan 20

• High Frequency CPU and Dedicated CPU cloud servers plans are powered by the enterprise PCIe Gen 4 NVMe SSD to boost your workloads. NVMe SSD enhances the consistency, reliability and performance while increase the efficiency for data storage, management, and accessibility.

Jan 14

• Global Private Networking is officially launched today which is now available in Hong Kong, Singapore and Japan. Users can transfer data in end-to-end encryption through the private Layer 2 connection (dedicated VLAN) between cloud servers regionally and globally.

Nov 2020

Nov 17

• The Dedicated CPU Cloud Server is officially launched today which is now available in Hong Kong. The Dedicated CPU cores at a maximum turbo boost of 3.3 GHz are only accessible by your server without sharing CPU power with other cloud users. This plan is suitable for continuous and CPU-intensive workloads such as AI, machine learning, CI/CD, batch processing, and video encoding.

Oct 2020

Oct 27

• LayerStack launches the High Frequency CPU Cloud Server today and it’s now available in Hong Kong. With a maximum turbo boost of 3.4 GHz, this plan is suitable for CPU-intensive workloads such as video-encoding, compiling programs, 3D rendering, and advertisement serving.

Sep 2020

Sep 28

• Labeling feature is now available for Global Private Networking.

Sep 04

• Templates is supporting five new file formats now: Virtual Disk Image (VDI), Virtual Machine Disk (VMDK), Virtual Hard Disk (VHDX), QEMU Copy-On-Write 2 (QCOW2), and raw. Users can import images to Templates which you can use to launch instances.

Jun 2020

Jun 30

• Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) is officially launched on LayerPanel. LayerStack VPC is a virtual isolated network dedicated to any of your LayerStack cloud servers aiming to provide users with completely isolated cloud servers to place sensitive data and works.

Jun 02

• New Cloud Servers plans R708 is available in all four regions.

May 2020

May 26

• Ubuntu 20 ISO is now available.

May 25

• Cloud Servers upgrade plan feature is now launched, you can initiate an upgrade order to add additional server resources.

May 22

• Custom ISO feature is now launched, and the uploaded ISO can be mounted in all four regions.

Apr 2020

Apr 23

• China Direct CN2 Route is now launched. This route is backed by the top three carriers in China, including China Telecom, China Unicom, and China Mobile, ensuring high capacity, superior performance, solid reliability, and excellent speed.

Jan 2020

Jan 02

• Debian 10 OS template is now available.

Dec 2019

Dec 10

• 10Gbps DDoS Attack Protection ​is now launched. Protect your servers around clock 365 days by implementing security on the network layer, transport layer, and application layer and all clean traffic can still pass through to your server, in order to minimize the effects of a service outage.

Dec 6

• Firewall is now available in the LayerPanel for all regions, including Hong Kong, Singapore, Tokyo, and Los Angeles. This helps to prevent malicious traffic from reaching your network through the built-in stateful firewall.

Nov 2019

Nov 29

• Windows Server 2019 (繁體中文/简体中文) OS template is now available.

Nov 27

• Windows Server 2019 OS template is now available.

Nov 22

• Linux System Rescue ISO is now available.

Nov 21

• Plesk Obsidian on CentOS 7 OS template is now available.

Nov 20

• Fedora 31 OS template is now available.

Nov 18

• LayerStack releases new High Memory and High Storage Cloud Servers plans in LayerPanel 2, available in the Hong Kong 03 data center region. High Memory: Specifically designed for memory-intensive workloads such as databases, memory caching, and rendering. Starts at 24GB of memory and scales up to 90GB. High Storage: Featuring high SSD storage capacity, big and fast data processing ability, along with standard CPU performance for running your own mail server, archiving old documents and files, etc. Starts at 500GBGB of SSD storage and scales up to 1000GB.

Nov 14

• FreeBSD 11 ISO is now available.

• Debian 10 ISO is now available.

Nov 7

• The new cloud control panel - LayerPanel 2 is now available in all regions, including Hong Kong, Singapore, Tokyo, and Los Angeles.

Nov 4

• User SSH Key can now deploy Linux cloud servers with their own SSH Key

• Custom scripts (via cloud-init) can be defined during Cloud Server deployment. This feature is available for Linux distributions (Ubuntu 16 or up and CentOS 7 or up).

Oct 2019

Oct 29

• Order API is launched with endpoint Added /order.

Oct 25

• CentOS 8 is now available.

Sep 2019

Sep 19

• Global Private Networking is now launched. Users can now deploy one or more private networking plans for a region and enable private networks for specific Cloud Servers.

Sep 5

• Automatic Backup option is now available for Cloud Servers.

Aug 2019

Aug 20

• Reverse DNS is now available in the LayerPanel.

• Dashboard graphs are revamped better design for the ease of comparing data.  

Jul 2019

Jul 23

• The ISO of Windows Server 2012 (Traditional Chinese/ Simplified Chinese), Windows Server 2016 (Traditional Chinese/ Simplified Chinese), Windows Server 2019 (Traditional Chinese/ Simplified Chinese) are now available in the control panel.

Jul 11

• The new cloud control panel - LayerPanel 2 is now available in Singapore and Los Angeles.