TL;DR – You could, but we don’t recommend it and it will affect your servers warranty with vCanopy if you do.
vCanopy has been made with one thought in mind, to create the ultimate Cloud/VPS hosting management platform for serious WordPress development. To that end, and almost to the exclusion of everything else, we are focused squarely on WordPress.
Your vCanopy servers runs a LEMP/LOMP7 (Linux/Nginx/Openresty/MariaDB/PHP7+) stack that has been tweaked and configured for one thing, to make your WordPress sites scream.
We are, however, aware that this stack could be used to host many other PHP based applications, static web sites, and much more. With some terminal work and a some updated configuration files you could install many other different applications on your server.
So you may be asking, can I install any other applications on my vCanopy servers?
The answer is quite simple…
You could, but we do not recommend it and would like to discourage you from doing so.
Firstly, let us reiterate that, you could, absolutely you could. It is your server. With vCanopy you own the server, our platform’s job is to help you use that server to host and manage incredibly fast and responsive WordPress based sites and web applications.
So with that being said, we also need to say something else… if you do choose to install any other non-WordPress based sites on your vCanopy server then the following applies:
- We can not and do not guarantee this other software will work as intended.
- All applicable SLA’s for your vCanopy tier, with regards to any vCanopy server that has such software installed are null and void. That is to say, we are unable to provide support for vCanopy servers if they contain any other non vCanopy deployed applications.
We want to keep our eyes on the ball, our focus undiluted, and our support on point and to this end we actively discourage the installation of other software on your vCanopy servers.
We hope you appreciate our reasoning, if you do have any questions regarding this issue then please don’t hesitate to reach out.
Thank you for your understanding.