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I want to be fully transparent in what this service entails. That includes the actual server specs and even the hosting provider (because believe it or not, I don't own a data center in Germany).

Server Specs

The shared server is from Hetzner. Here are the specs:

• CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 3900
• Cores: 12
• Threads: 24
• Base clock: 3.1 GHz
• RAM: 128 GB DDR4 ECC
• Drives: 2 x 1.92 TB NVMe SSDs in RAID1
• Connection: 1 Gbps

Why Hetzner? Because they're affordable and not sketchy. DNS and Enhance are on their own separate servers in different locations. Using separate servers and locations does cost more, but I don't want to host all my eggs in one rack-mounted basket.

Backups are taken frequently from Enhance and can be restored from the panel. You can also keep your own backups and use plugins like Updraft. I don't restrict what that 20 GB can be used for (see terms).

Software

Right now (as of 5/16/25) the server has installed:

• Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
• Apache 2.4
• MariaDB 11.4
• PHP 5.6 to 8.4
• WP-CLI
• Composer
• A bunch of other stuff

PHP 5.6 is the lowest version supported on the server. Keep in mind that 5.6 is no longer receiving security fixes. You should upgrade to PHP 8.1 as soon as possible. I'm just offering it for convenience.

Control Panel

Enhance is a modern hosting control panel with nice features like clustering and containerization. This enables some cool perks like dedicated Redis instances for each site. Enhance also supports importing account backups from cPanel.

The DC

The server lives in Hetzner's data center in Falkenstein. This is a modern and secure facility that isn't made out of plywood. That was actually a big deciding factor in choosing a location: whether the facility is made entirely out of plywood.

Here's an excellent video on what it looks like: