You can now connect a custom domain to Appwrite Sites without changing your nameservers. Appwrite Sites now supports CNAME flattening and similar apex-domain features provided by modern DNS providers.
Instead of migrating nameservers to Appwrite, you can add a DNS record with your existing provider, verify the domain in the Console, and go live. This works with CNAME flattening (Cloudflare), ALIAS records (Route 53), and ANAME records, depending on your provider.
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We've rolled out infrastructure improvements to strengthen runtime stability across regions, including NYC, after identifying DNS-related instability under load.
What's improved:
These changes reduce DNS-related latency, improve cold start reliability, and minimize blast radius during node-level issues.
SMS pricing for Phone OTP has been updated to reflect current rates from our upstream providers. We continuously work with our vendors to ensure the best availability and local delivery for OTP messages worldwide. Per-country rates have been adjusted across the board so that our documentation and billing stay in sync with carrier and provider changes—some destinations saw rate decreases, others increases, and the pricing table has been reorganized for clarity.
See the Phone OTP documentation for the full per-country SMS pricing table.
To reduce idle infrastructure costs and keep the Free plan sustainable at scale, projects on the Free plan with no development activity for 7 consecutive days will be automatically paused.
What "paused" means
Why this change
Running cloud infrastructure incurs ongoing costs, even for inactive projects. Automatically pausing idle projects ensures resources are prioritized for developers actively building, while keeping the Free plan sustainable long term.
Important
Projects that require continuous availability should be on a paid plan. Free plan projects remain active as long as they show development activity in the Console. We will continue evolving the Free plan to keep it generous, sustainable, and aligned with active builders.
Two fixes are now live for DNS used by custom domains and network features.
TXT records: TXT records now support payloads longer than 255 bytes by using chunked encoding (splitting into 255-byte chunks per RFC 1035), and empty TXT rdata is encoded as a single zero-length character-string so encoding and decoding stay correct.
Response truncation: When a response is truncated and the authority section is dropped to fit size limits, NODATA (NOERROR with no answers) and NXDOMAIN responses are now marked non-authoritative so they remain valid and pass validation.
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