This August, xCloud brings a set of powerful updates designed to make your hosting experience faster, smarter, and more secure. From built-in Page Speed Insights to an all-new backup management dashboard, we are rolling out features that give you more clarity, control, and flexibility over your websites.
The August release focuses heavily on performance optimization, smarter storage management, and tighter security. Whether you are improving site speed, organizing your backups, or managing server resources, these tools will help you save time and deliver a better user experience for your visitors.
In the xCloud August 2025 Release Notes, we will talk about the update we brought last month and what is coming this month.
New Features of xCloud August 2025 Releases
🌐 Google PageSpeed Insights Integration: Check your website performance directly in xCloud with scores for mobile and desktop, actionable tips, and Core Web Vitals insights.
🛡️ 7G & 8G Firewall Integration with NGINX: Protect your sites from malicious traffic while customizing whitelist rules for IPs, URLs, plugins, and more.
🛠️ Redesigned Site Backup Management Dashboard: Enjoy a cleaner interface with backup summaries, status overviews, bulk delete, and faster restore management.
🎨 Multiple Themes in Blueprints: Add more than one theme to your blueprint packs for easy multi-theme deployments and faster site setup.
📊 Largest Files & Folders Scanner: Identify heavy files and folders on your server to optimize storage and improve performance.
⚙️ Blank Site Creation for Custom PHP: Start from scratch with a blank PHP site and upload your own application via SFTP or File Manager.
🔄 Migration Plugin 0.4.8: Migrate WordPress sites more reliably with better error handling and automatic detection of corrupted installations.
Roll down to explore these powerful updates, improvements, and fixes—designed to give you more control, speed, and flexibility with xCloud!
🌐 Page Speed Insights – Monitor Site Performance in Just 1 Click
Website speed is one of the most important factors for user experience and SEO. With this release, xCloud integrates Page Speed Insights directly into your dashboard. Now you can run speed tests without leaving xCloud and instantly see how your website performs.
Here is what you get with the Page Speed Insights integration:
- A performance score for both mobile and desktop
- A full breakdown of key performance metrics
- Actionable suggestions to fix issues such as large images, unused scripts, or slow server responses
- Insights into Core Web Vitals (LCP, FID, CLS) so your site meets Google’s speed standards
This feature gives you the clarity to identify what slows your site down and step-by-step tips to improve performance. Simply run a test, review the suggestions, and apply the fixes to make your site load lightning fast. 🚀
⚙️ Blank Site Creation for Custom PHP
For developers who prefer starting from scratch, xCloud now lets you create a blank PHP site. It comes with a simple welcome page, and you can later upload your own application via SFTP or File Manager.
This is perfect if you want to build custom projects with your own frameworks, tools, and configurations.
🔒 7G and 8G Firewall Integration for NGINX
Security remains a top priority at xCloud, and with this update, you have the option to customize and whitelist rules in the 7G and 8G Web Application Firewalls (WAF) right inside xCloud.
The 7G and 8G WAFs keep your sites safe from malicious bots, suspicious requests, and common web attacks. But sometimes, safe traffic can get blocked by mistake. With this update, you can fine-tune your firewall settings so trusted requests pass through without lowering your protection.
You can whitelist:
- Specific IP addresses
- Certain URLs
- Cookies
- Actions from trusted plugins and more
This is perfect if you use tools like Elementor, WooCommerce, or SEO crawlers that need uninterrupted access. You will now have more control, flexibility, and peace of mind knowing your sites remain secure and fully functional.
This ensures you have strong protection without unnecessary interruptions. With this update, you get the perfect balance of security and flexibility.
🆕 Redesigned Site Backup Management Dashboard
Managing backups is now faster and more seamless with a completely redesigned site backups interface. The new dashboard gives you better visibility and control, making it easy to find and restore the backups you need.
Here is what is new in the Backup Dashboard:
- A cleaner, more efficient interface for a smoother user experience
- Backup Summary showing total backups, file backups, and database size
- Status Overview so you can view each bucket at a glance
- Bulk delete option to remove backups quickly
- Easy switching between Remote and Local backups
This new design ensures that you can access your backups instantly and manage them without confusion.
🎨 Multiple Themes in Blueprints
With this release, Blueprints become even more powerful. You can now add multiple themes to your blueprint packs, making it easier to launch new websites with ready-to-use designs from the very beginning.
Whether you are a developer, an agency, or someone managing multiple sites, this update saves you time and effort. You can package everything in one blueprint and deploy it in a single click.
📊 Largest Files and Folders Scanner
Server storage management just got easier. xCloud now includes a Largest Files & Folders scanner that detects the heaviest files on your server.
This tool helps you quickly identify what is taking up the most space so you can free up resources and optimize performance. Just open your server dashboard, go to Monitoring, and select “Largest Files & Folders” to start scanning.
🔄 Migration Plugin 0.4.8
Migrating WordPress sites is now more reliable with the updated migration plugin (v0.4.8). The new version improves error handling and makes troubleshooting easier when migrations fail.
The plugin now gives clear error messages when migrations fail due to missing files or database issues. It also automatically detects corrupted WordPress installations and tells you what is wrong, making it easier for you to troubleshoot and fix problems.
Improvements and Bug Fixes
This release not only adds powerful new features but also improves many existing tools across the platform. Here are the key enhancements and fixes that make your hosting experience even smoother.
📌 Enhanced WordPress Security – Blocks risky plugin and theme actions to prevent command injection and keep your sites safer.
📌 Improved Server Selection – Dropdown menus are now alphabetically sorted and searchable, making it faster to find the right server when creating, cloning, or migrating sites.
📌 Automatic DKIM Verification – DKIM records are now checked automatically when verifying DNS, ensuring emails show your domain in the “signed-by” field.
📌 UI & UX Fixes – Resolved display issues such as long task names breaking event views, misaligned plugin icons in Blueprint cards, and Magic Login button design problems.
📌 MariaDB Installation Fix – Installation issues resolved for smoother server setup.
📌 Basic Authentication Security – Fixed a critical issue where old credentials remained active after updates by switching from append to overwrite mode in .htpasswd files.
📌 SSH Key Modal Fix – Clearing confirmation text on SSH key deletion modal closes properly and avoids input persistence.
📌 Stricter Server Name Validation – Enforced minimum length, character restrictions, and regex rules for safer server naming.
📌 Billing Permissions Fixed – Resolved visibility and access issues for billing and invoices across navigation menus.
📌 Backup Management Improvements – UI issues fixed, added loading spinners for empty views, and smoother restore selection process.
📌 Firewall Log Fixes – Corrected 7G/8G firewall log format naming conflicts.
📌 General UI/UX Fixes – Resolved multiple display and interaction issues for a more seamless experience.
📌 Duplicate Notifications Fixed – Prevented repeated notifications when a site is deleted.
Wrapping Up: What Is Rolling Out next?
With the August 2025 release, xCloud continues to empower users by combining performance, security, and efficiency into one seamless platform.
Beyond these improvements, xCloud is looking ahead with exciting upcoming features like the Bulk Updates Manager and more, showing that the platform is evolving to meet the real-world needs of developers, agencies, and business owners alike. The future of hosting is smarter, faster, and more user-friendly and xCloud is leading the way.
We would love to hear how these new features improve your hosting experience. Try them out today, share your feedback, and help us shape the future of xCloud. 🚀
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