Hello there!
As part of our series highlighting the redesign/changes in our panel, We have introduced a new option in our control panel (CrownPanel), Hard Reboot.
Previously, Hard Reboot was achieved by issuing a shutdown task and then a boot task to re-boot the system. In other words, this option is similar to pulling out the power to your PC and then plugging back in.
We recommend only having to use this option when the VPS is not responding … Read More
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bookmark_borderCentOS 8 now available on OpenVZ based VPSes
Hey There!
We’re happy to announce that CentOS 8 is now available as an operating system choice on our OpenVZ based plans in our control panel.

We also have a few guides available on our wiki to start off with CentOS 8, https://wiki.crowncloud.net/#CentOS+8 — Feel free to contact our support team (via a support ticket) if you wish to see any new/different guide available on our wiki!
Stay tuned for more!
– Team CrownCloud… Read More
bookmark_borderNew Years Greetings
Hey There!
We hope the past year 2019 was a great one for you and wish you a amazing year ahead in 2020!
Since we don’t email customers often, we’d thought we’d use this opportunity to share a yearly highlight with you to showcase some of the topics that we’ve worked on and some things which we have coming soon for you!

OpenVZ 6 to OpenVZ 7 Upgrades
November 2019 year saw OpenVZ 6 (based off CentOS 6) reach End-Of-Life … Read More
bookmark_borderHow to view the processes and resource usage on my VPS
Glances:
Glances is a cross-platform curses-based monitoring tool which is used to see the process and resources usage. It provides the monitoring details of following:
- CPU
- Memory
- Load
- Process list
- Network interface
- Disk I/O
- Raid
- Sensors
- Filesystem
- Docker
- Monitor
- Alert
- System info
- Uptime
To install the Glances on your VPS, please user the following command.
On Ubuntu/Debian
sudo apt-get update -y
sudo apt-get install glances -y
On CentOS/Fedora
sudo yum update -y
sudo yum install glances -y
To check … Read More
bookmark_borderUbuntu 19.10 Is Now Available
Hey There!
Ubuntu 19.10 is now available under our 1-Click Installer in our control panel!

As always, we also have an ISO/CD-ROM install method available for customers who are looking to create custom partition layouts, pre-install different packages etc.

bookmark_borderRedesigned Settings Menu
Hey There!
As part of our series highlighting the redesign/changes in our panel, today we’re moving to the Settings Menu!

We’ve kept the change minimal in our settings menu to keep things straightforward for our users looking for the settings they wish to change on their VPS.
We now introduce a few more settings in the OpenVZ side of things which were missing earlier,

bookmark_borderRedesigned Task Log Interface Coming Soon
Hey There!
As part of our series highlighting the redesign/changes in our panel, today we’re moving to the Task Log!

The Task Log interface remains basic but quite important in highlighting completed tasks and pending tasks,
We have redesigned the interface to be more sleek when viewing multiple tasks. We plan to introduce a method to view all the tasks ran previously as well.
Stay tuned for further updates!… Read More
bookmark_borderRedesigned Manage Network Interface Coming Soon!
Hey There!
Continuing with our previous series of previewing out our new user interface, today we’re happy to preview out the new & redesigned Manage Network Interface!
Checkout the previous post about our Redesigned Snapshot Interface
To begin with, we’ve split the Manage Network interface into 3 parts, to give us more “space” to work with for each item,
- Network Addresses
- Network Usage Graph
- Previous Usage

Network Addresses

This is the first tab you see when … Read More
bookmark_borderSnapshots now available for OpenVZ 7 powered VPSes
Snapshots are now available for OpenVZ 7 powered VPSes in our control panel,

You can now create/restore/destroy snapshots for your OpenVZ 7 VPS with 1-click in your control panel at any time!
Please feel free to contact us via the client area if you require any help/support when using our snapshot interface
Thank you
– CrownCloud Staff… Read More
bookmark_borderRedesigned Snapshots Interface Coming Soon!
Hey There!
We’ve been working on a new design for our control panel and we’re glad to unveil the first redesigned feature today — Snapshots!

As seen in the above image, we’ve redesigned out the snapshot interface to be clearer and more informative while making good use of the space available.
The first thing you see is the long character-numeric string, the snapshot-UUID, this is vital when trying to address the snapshot with when using … Read More