xCloud August 2026 Recap: App-First Deployment, 250+ One-Click Apps & DeepSeek Harness Hosting

Welcome to the August 2026 xCloud feature roundup. This is going to be quite a video. There's a lot to talk about. You're going to see me occasionally check my notes because there's so much that there's no way I'm keeping it all in my head. So let's get started. We made it easier to launch applications, understand what's happening on your servers, and safer for you to manage the sites that you have. We had 7 releases this month. Uh, we introduced a new server overview, live monitoring, smarter app-first creation flow. That's going to be a cool one to look at. I'll show you how it works. Uh, more than 90 one-click, uh, apps, new GitHub controls, DeepSeek Harness hosting, and literally dozens of fixes that were brought to us by you. Things that you had problems with in the interface and how things work. And we really appreciate it. So we're going to go over some of those as well. We're going to start looking at deployment options. A big one is app-first deployment, which means you don't build a server and then choose an app to put on it. You pick an app and xCloud says, hey, that app is going to need this kind of resources. And you already have a server set up like that, or you don't have a server set up like that and you need one. Here's a quick example. Uh, I have not set up a server or anything. I just clicked, uh, add site. And the first thing it wants me to do is choose an app. So there's 230 here. Uh, that's all of them. Um, WordPress, custom apps. There are 211 one-click apps, AI agents, et cetera. So I'm just going to pick Buzz here. And right here it says I have 2 servers already set up. They're both WordPress, which is not appropriate for Buzz. So they suggest I deploy on a new server. This one could support it. It'd be 2 apps on one server, which is fine given enough resources. But the next cool thing I want to show you is guided GitHub installs. So right here, um, I went to add a new site, I picked GitHub, and right here I can search. I can just choose that from GitHub and it will create the server and install it for me. That's really, really great. Then, uh, I wanted to point out that one-click apps used to be just all listed on one big page, which was really big. That's what we're looking at right now. It's 207 of them, but you can choose just AI or business or CMS. You can search. Well, here, let's just search for Ghost because you can see it right there. There. So that just smooths that whole process. You can search or view it this way, etc. So that's really slick. I love that. I do want to point out that I said there's 207 here. 90 of those came just this month, which gives you some idea of the pace that they're setting for getting new apps in. Jellyfin, Moodle, OpenSEO, there are a ton of them. Next, let's talk about AI hosting and easier provider connections. There's a cool new thing that I didn't know about before researching for this video called DeepSeek Harness. And I'm excited to learn more. xCloud now offers managed DeepSeek Harness hosting, a flexible plugin-based coding agent environment where you can choose models, tools, runtimes, storage, and workflows while xCloud manages deployment, SSL security, monitoring, and infrastructure, which sounds like a wonderful way to go because I don't want to handle most of that. It's also a lot easier to connect providers. OpenAI Codex and Claude code can now be authorized through a guided xCloud modal with one-click code copying, token validation, expiry countdowns, and automatic success detection. Also, Hermes Agent users can also manage configuration, API keys, OAuth tokens, and other environment variables directly from the xCloud dashboard without manually accessing the server. Which is great. I love it. Next, we're going to talk about updates and fixes. Before I dive into them, I want to comment on the fact that all of these updates and fixes came about because someone in the Facebook group or via other support channels raised an issue and said, hey, this isn't right. We want this better. Or said, hey, we need this feature changed. And that is incredibly valuable. Nextcloud is better because of that, and we really appreciate it. So if you're one of those people, thank you. Uh, if you have an issue that you want addressed, please let us know and we will take care of it. So let's take a look here. For site health, broken link monitoring gained scheduled and on-demand scans, live progress, filters, CSV export, ignored findings, and redirect creation. Helping teams find broken pages, links, images, redirects, and soft 404s from the dashboard. Next, for safer hosting operations, PHP-FPM settings are now validated before saving, so inconsistent values cannot take multiple sites offline. Always a positive. Server details are better protected from team members without access, and platform API tokens are kept inside the correct team boundary. Next, for Cloudflare and SSL, we improved enterprise domain recovery, made DNS cutover instructions clearer, added one-click recovery when the cache purge plugin is missing, and strengthened SSL renewal checks for OpenLiteSpeed Node.js sites. For migrations and backups, we improved private archive downloads, database imports, progress reporting, cleanup, restore checks, scheduling, and recovery after configuration paths from an old server are detected. We also fixed deployment issues involving stale Docker port conflicts, private repository access, branch detection, deploy scripts, OpenLiteSpeed restarts, Node.js multi-domain redirects, one-click app pool selection, and Hermes environment editing. The last fix we did is across billing and account workflows. We addressed missing or stale server bills, duplicate installment charges, inactive bill invoicing, free-to-LTD conversion, and support tickets being assigned to the wrong authorized team, which is unfortunate. Uh, Cloudflare Enterprise is no longer limited to domains hosted on xCloud. So if you have a domain hosted elsewhere, you can still use Cloudflare Enterprise and get all the benefits thereof. So that's it for the month. Uh, if you want to see a full changelog, you can go to xcloud.host/changelog. Uh, you can also subscribe to this YouTube channel and get these monthly updates, but I also recommend subscribing to the Facebook group. You'll see things as they happen, and you'll also be able to communicate directly with xCloud staff, not just support staff, but a variety of people inside xCloud and me as well. So, uh, subscribe to those things and come back next month and see what's new.