RunCloud’s presence at these events helped users learn about server management workflows directly from the team. It also strengthened relationships with local WordPress communities, from workshop sessions to casual chats at booths.Learn more: Understanding the RunCloud Auto Healing FeatureWelcome to the RunCloud 2025 Year in Review. WordCamp Europe 2025 was a particularly special one for us as we announced the Arch by RunCloud project, opening up our waitlist (join here).
- RunCloud is a server management platform that makes it easy to run production-grade infrastructure on your favorite cloud providers (including AWS, UpCloud, Vultr, and more). Trusted from startup to enterprise – from your favorite indie hackers and WordPress agencies all the way through to world-class hosting companies.
- Our mission is to make server management so simple & reliable that it fades into the background. We believe you should spend your energy scaling your business, shipping code, and serving your customers, rather than fighting with the command line or worrying about uptime, performance, and the cost of using managed providers eating into your margins.
Later in the year, RunCloud supported WordCamp Malaysia 2025 as a Gold Sponsor. At the event in Petaling Jaya, the team connected with Southeast Asian developers, shared best practices, and talked through features like RunCache with attendees.In 2025, we shipped 38 product updates, ranging from major new features to critical platform improvements. While some of these were entirely new feature releases, others were necessary maintenance and platform enhancements that don’t always get headlines, but quietly make RunCloud work better for you every day.Sometimes you need to take a site offline to perform critical updates or fix a bug, but you never want your visitors to see a broken page or a raw error log. This year, we simplified this workflow with our new Maintenance Mode feature.
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2025 By The Numbers
Feedback from RunCloud users drives our roadmap, and your satisfaction is our top priority. Thank you for trusting us with your business. While we want to celebrate where we are, we also recognize that our work here is never done & as such, it goes without saying that we retain our commitment to continuous improvement in support. As we write this, we’re wrapping up the first week of 2026. And, as is the trendy thing to say this year – and every year before – largely because it tends to be the case: it’s been quite a year. That’s a wrap on #WCEU 2025! 🇨🇭🇪🇺This feature actively monitors your server’s essential services. If a service goes down, RunCloud doesn’t just alert you; it attempts to restart the service automatically to get your site(s) back online instantly.
RunCloud Around the World
We are thrilled to announce RunCache, our very own, all-in-one WordPress caching plugin.We built RunCache to solve a simple problem: making WordPress fast shouldn’t require a degree in systems engineering. With RunCache, you can enable a full suite of performance layers (Object Caching, PHP Caching, NGINX Caching, and CDN Caching) all with a single click.
- Turks and Caicos Islands
- Christmas Islands
- Isle of Man
- Mongolia
- Faroe Islands
📈 Over 200,000 web app deployments: from personal blogs to high-traffic ecommerce stores, you built & launched it all.
This Year in Support & Service
If you’re here for the first time, here’s a bit about us: We didn’t stop at just adding the engine, though. We wanted to make the transition as seamless as possible. We introduced a dedicated MySQL/MariaDB Migration Tool that allows you to switch your existing databases between the two engines effortlessly. Whether you are migrating legacy projects or optimizing for specific performance needs, the choice is now 100% yours.
With a single click, you can now make your website temporarily unavailable to the public. It is the cleanest way to handle downtime during deployments or modifications. Once your work is done, simply toggle it off, and your site is back in business instantly.
- Lightning Fast Responses: We respect your time. In 2025, our average first-response time during business hours was under 20 minutes.
- Customer Happiness: Speed means nothing without quality. We are incredibly proud that over 90% of customers rated their support experience as “Extremely Satisfied.”
2025 was an amazing year of strengthening foundations and scaling up, but we promise that 2026 is going to be even better. With tools like RunCache and Arch on the horizon, we are gearing up to make your workflow faster, simpler, and more powerful than ever before.
This Year in Product
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Auto Healing
Being able to meet a lot of our users, including ones who very recently migrated over, as well as other active members of the community who were just hearing about how they can run their own infrastructure with RunCloud, truly never gets old.
It’s always striking to see RunCloud adopted in unexpected places. RunCloud is truly global, and this year we saw active servers managed from some of the most remote and fascinating corners of the world, including:
Thank you for being part of our journey, for your feedback, and for helping us build the web.
MySQL Support
Server stability is non-negotiable; however, services can sometimes crash due to traffic spikes or memory leaks. In the past, this would have created panic and required a manual restart. This year, we introduced Auto Healing to take that stress off your shoulders.
Learn more: How to Enable Maintenance Mode for a Web Application
HTTP/3 Support
Fast, free, and coming soon to a WordPress dashboard near you. What’s not to love?
Good infrastructure should stay out of your way, and software should be easy to use.
Maintenance Mode
For years, MariaDB has been the default standard on our platform, but we know that developers love choice. RunCloud users asked for it, and in 2025, we delivered full MySQL Support. RunCloud users can now choose the database engine that best fits their specific application requirements when provisioning a server.
2025 was a big year for community connection and real-world engagement. RunCloud appeared not just online, but also in places where users build, learn, and collaborate.
As we close the chapter on 2025, we are filled with immense gratitude. The numbers and milestones matter, but what matters most is you – the developers, agencies, and business owners who trust us with your infrastructure every single day.We’re thrilled to announce Arch by RunCloud – unveiled at this year’s event – and open up the waitlist.
WordCamp Pune 2025
But we couldn’t do this alone. We build the tools, but you build the web.
WordCamp Europe 2025 🇨🇭
We couldn’t wrap up the year without giving you a glimpse of what’s to come. While we’re proud of what we achieved in 2025, we are even more excited about what we are building for 2026. We have two major announcements to share, and we believe they will change the way you work.Whether you are coding from a high-rise in New York or a remote office in the Faroe Islands, we are proud to be the engine behind your infrastructure.
Although I wasn’t raised in Switzerland, I am half-Swiss (on my mother’s side) & conveniently from the German part, which made it all the more enjoyable to meet some of RunCloud’s German and Swiss users at the conference. This year, RunCloud celebrated its 8th anniversary. Speed is the currency of the web, and this year we gave your sites a significant performance boost at no extra cost. We rolled out full support for HTTP/3. This protocol reduces latency and enhances connection stability, particularly for users on mobile networks.
WordCamp Malaysia 2025
🌍 Serving 120 countries, powering nearly 100k servers & 400k+ appsBeyond sponsorships, local meetups and ambassador-led gatherings continued throughout the year, bringing RunCloud users together for learning and collaboration.Our engineering team is currently focused on refactoring RunCloud’s architecture to prepare for Arch, so we aren’t yet ready to reveal everything. Join the waitlist for Arch today.
Looking Forward – Our Vision for 2026
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Announcement #1 – Introducing RunCache
Let’s take a moment to celebrate what a year it’s been & look ahead to 2026.Ready to get back to work?
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For years, you have trusted RunCloud to manage the server-side performance of your applications. Now, we are taking that expertise directly into your WordPress dashboard.By opening the necessary firewall ports and optimizing the server stack, we enabled your sites to serve content more quickly and securely, with users having no need to upgrade hardware to get it. It’s a free performance upgrade that ensures your applications remain on the cutting edge of web standards.But when something does go wrong, being able to rely on human support matters. We’ve invested heavily in our support team this year to ensure that when you reach out, we are there to provide a prompt response.
Announcement #2 – Introducing Arch
Learn more: How to migrate between MySQL and MariaDBTo our amazing community of developers, agencies, and business owners: Thank you, RunCloud users. Thank you for trusting us with your mission-critical applications, for your honest feedback, and for pushing us to keep shipping.
Wrapping Up
In June, Arif Tukiman (CEO) and Rajendra Zore (CMO & Product Strategist) travelled to attend WordCamp Europe, where they were supported by a “semi-local” (me!). In February, RunCloud was a Silver Sponsor at WordCamp Pune 2025, joining developers and WordPress enthusiasts in India. Teams shared product insights, answered questions in person, and met users face-to-face.This year, we plan to start gradually inviting existing users as a part of a phased rollout, starting with select high-usage accounts, followed by those who have registered for early access, and eventually opening up broader access (so make sure to get on the waitlist sooner rather than later). We believe that high performance should be accessible to everyone. Unlike other proprietary solutions that lock you into a specific hosting environment, RunCache works on any server, with any cloud provider. Whether you are on RunCloud or not, you can use RunCache to supercharge your site.
