Applications

Everything about persistent volumes

Persistent volumes allow your application to store files that persist across deployments and container restarts, essential for user-uploaded content and generated files.

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Storage volume resizing

Learn how to resize your persistent storage volumes to accommodate growing data needs.

Understanding application instances

An application instance is one running container of your app. Scale horizontally to add instances, vertically to add CPU/RAM per instance. Sizing guide inside.

When changes require redeployment

Learn which configuration changes require a new deployment and which are applied immediately. Understanding this helps you plan updates effectively.

WordPress Applications

Deploy WordPress sites with persistent storage and automatic updates.

Health check path

Learn what the health check path does, why it matters, and how to configure it for your application type.

Resource management and scaling

Efficiently manage application resources with intelligent scaling controls for instances, workers, and services

Running commands in your application

Learn how to execute one-off commands in your running application instances directly from the application interface

Automatic scaling

Configure automatic horizontal scaling on Ploi Cloud: set min/max replicas, queue-depth thresholds. PHP-FPM scales on request load, not just CPU.

Network connectivity

Enable secure communication between your applications using team networks.

Scheduled deletion

Schedule applications for automatic, permanent deletion. Useful for preview environments and short-lived test apps that should clean themselves up.