You can now point an AI assistant at your entire InstaWP account, not just one site. That’s the headline this release, and it lands alongside inbound domain transfers, a larger bare-metal hosting backbone, and a batch of reliability and security fixes. Here’s everything that shipped.
Highlights
- Connect AI assistants to your whole account with the new Account MCP server.
- Transfer domains you already own into InstaWP.
- More hosting capacity and more resilient backups on our new-generation bare-metal servers.
New
Connect AI assistants to your whole account
InstaWP now runs an account-level MCP server over a streamable HTTP endpoint, so assistants like Claude and ChatGPT can work across your account, not only inside a single site. You’ll also see exact timestamps for when MCP access was turned on or off, so account access stays auditable. Set up Account MCP, and read Account MCP vs Site MCP to pick the right one for the job.
Bring your existing domains in
Inbound domain transfers are here. Search a domain you already own, hit Transfer it instead, and manage it next to the sites it points to. See how a transfer works.
Slack notifications for domain purchases
Buy a domain and your team gets a Slack notification. Handy for agencies keeping track of client domain buys without living in the dashboard.
SSL that retries itself
Domains registered through InstaWP now retry SSL provisioning automatically, so certificates come up reliably without a manual nudge.
A migration API for demo sites (Migrate v4)
Migrate v4 adds an API for standing up demo sites, giving teams a programmatic way to create demos as part of a migration.
Fold any Ubuntu server into your fleet
Already run your own hardware? An existing Ubuntu server can now be adopted into InstaWP management in a single step, so you add capacity without rebuilding anything from scratch.
ZFS backups on bare metal
Bare-metal servers now back up with ZFS, for faster and more resilient snapshots.
Running your own hardware or reselling hosting? The new bare-metal support and server:adopt were built for exactly that. See the Agency Program.
Improved
- Cleaner audit trails: user deletions now record which admin performed them.
- Backup UX: a smoother backup experience across the dashboard.
- Custom domains: clearer rules for when custom domains are available on your plan.
- Web Terminal: a clearer status while SSH is being enabled, so you know what’s happening.
- Translations: fixed the Insta Translate package.
- Fewer false security blocks: CrowdSec now whitelists authenticated 401 responses too, so logged-in users aren’t caught by mistake.
- Health reporting: more reliable health reporting across the platform.
Fixed
- Billing: fixed rollback when a card payment fails, so a failed charge no longer leaves a plan in a bad state.
- Plan changes: fixed a plan-application webhook issue.
- White-label: fixed a restore issue for white-label sites.
- Pay-per-use: fixed a 422 error when updating plan settings.
- Migration: fixed a site URL issue in Migrate v3.
- Security scanning: improved the accuracy of the phishing scanner.
- Pay-per-use: fixed a 500 error when a snapshot ran out of disk space.
- Security: hardened backup pull operations and closed a potential gap in how backups are handled.
Want to try the new features? Start Building Free. If you run hosting for clients, the bare-metal and account-level tools in this release are worth a closer look: See the Agency Program.
