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Move Your EasyPanel Apps to Your Own VPS — Without Taking the Old One Down

Jul 19, 2026

Move Your EasyPanel Apps to Your Own VPS — Without Taking the Old One Down

Server Compass v1.33.0 connects over your existing SSH login, takes a read-only inventory of your EasyPanel projects, and copies supported apps plus their MySQL, MariaDB, and PostgreSQL data into isolated staging — while EasyPanel keeps serving traffic.

features#migration#easypanel#docker#import#v1.33.0
Stop Hoping Your Servers Are Backed Up — See It in One Place

Jul 17, 2026

Stop Hoping Your Servers Are Backed Up — See It in One Place

Server Compass v1.32.0 adds the Backup Protection Center: one overview of every server marked protected, manual-only, or not protected — with in-app scheduling, portable snapshots, selective folder backups, and a restore that can't lock you out of SSH.

features#backups#snapshots#disaster-recovery#security#v1.32.0
Give clients a private status page for their app

Jul 13, 2026

Give clients a private status page for their app

Give a client a private, read-only status page for a single app — scoped to what you choose, on your own domain, without handing over a login to your server.

features#client-portals#status-page#agencies#app-management
Move a running app to another server, data and all

Jul 13, 2026

Move a running app to another server, data and all

Clone an app and its data from one server you manage to another with a guided wizard — the original keeps running until you point DNS at the new server.

features#migration#multi-server#docker#server-management
Bring Your Own SSL Certificate for Any Domain

Jul 10, 2026

Bring Your Own SSL Certificate for Any Domain

Server Compass now lets you upload an OV or EV certificate from your own certificate authority for any domain — validated, installed, and served over HTTPS without touching a terminal.

features#ssl#custom-certificates#domains#https#traefik
Give Coding Agents Scoped Access to Your VPS

Jul 3, 2026

Give Coding Agents Scoped Access to Your VPS

Server Compass v1.28.0 adds AI Access, a local token-secured MCP connection that lets coding agents inspect and operate your VPS through scoped permissions instead of raw SSH credentials.

features#AI Access#MCP#coding agents#VPS management#Server Compass
Self-Host an AI Agent on Your VPS in One Click

Jun 10, 2026

Self-Host an AI Agent on Your VPS in One Click

Server Compass v1.27.0 deploys Hermes Agent to your VPS in one click — your own OpenAI-compatible gateway, a web dashboard reachable through an SSH tunnel, and chat platforms wired in from the same window.

features#ai-agent#self-hosted#hermes#release#v1.27.0
Move Render Apps to Your Own VPS Without Rewriting the Dockerfile

Jun 3, 2026

Move Render Apps to Your Own VPS Without Rewriting the Dockerfile

Server Compass v1.26.0 connects to your Render API key, pulls env vars, domains, secret files, and build commands, and generates a Docker plan you can deploy in one click — plus firewall lockout protection for custom SSH ports.

features#migration#render#docker#import#v1.26.0
Rename Your Docker Apps Without Breaking Them

May 29, 2026

Rename Your Docker Apps Without Breaking Them

Server Compass v1.25.3 introduces friendly Custom App Display Names — replace cryptic project slugs with human-readable labels across every view, while containers, volumes, and folders on the server stay exactly where Docker expects them.

features#app-management#docker#ux#v1.25.3
Never Lock Yourself Out of Your Server Again

May 23, 2026

Never Lock Yourself Out of Your Server Again

Server Compass now protects your SSH firewall rule from accidental deletion, blocks duplicate port 22 entries, and adds per-config backup passphrases — so critical access paths can't be removed by mistake.

features#firewall#security#ssh#backup#ufw
150+ new self-hostable apps just landed in Server Compass v1.25.0

May 22, 2026

150+ new self-hostable apps just landed in Server Compass v1.25.0

Server Compass just tripled the deploy catalog: 428 one-click templates, up from 239. AI tooling, productivity, finance, dev tools, storage, monitoring — the gap between 'I want to try this self-hosted app tonight' and 'it deploys' just shrank dramatically.

features#release#templates#self-hosted#v1.25.0#docker#open-source