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Product announcements, engineering posts, tutorials, and stories from a Canadian-owned cloud platform.
The Store is a new tab in the ZCP console. Buy support, professional services, dedicated servers and licences there, and they bill on the same invoice as your instances.
ZSoftly Team5 min read
How we rebuilt our authoritative DNS design around independently operable roles, a reversible cutover, and observability that describes the system we now run.
Ditah Kumbong11 min read
A step-by-step guide to launching a virtual machine and installing Dokploy on ZSoftly Cloud Platform, entirely from the portal. Self-host your apps and databases with Git deploys and automatic TLS.
Ditah Kumbong4 min read
What Prepaid, Postpaid, and Manual billing mean on ZCP, how each one works day to day, and how to pick the right one at signup.
Ditah Kumbong4 min read
ZSoftly is launching ZCP certification in January 2027: four levels, free learning paths and labs, paid exams, and a learning platform built on Moodle with IOMAD.
Ditah Kumbong6 min read
A seven-minute VM create, two wrong turns, a self-healing timer I built and then deleted, and the package update that fixed it.
Ditah Kumbong9 min read
ZCP CLI v1.0.1 and the Terraform and OpenTofu provider v1.0.0 are available today, bringing Pricing V2 configuration, Kubernetes role sizing, VM backup schedules, and lifecycle fixes to automation workflows.
Ditah Kumbong5 min read
ZCP plans are now CPU and memory only. You choose the root disk size in GB when you create a server and pay the per-GB rate of the storage tier. Existing servers keep their plan and price.
ZSoftly Team5 min read
What to test before a private desktop rollout: daily work, video calls, network paths, storage, and offboarding.
Adjartey Odopey5 min read
A Q3 review of ZCP, followed by an October update on backup billing, Kubernetes billing, the Store, Marketplace emails, and account security.
ZSoftly Team4 min read
