Blog

# From the ZCP team

Product announcements, engineering posts, tutorials, and stories from a Canadian-owned cloud platform.

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![ZCP blog cover: The ZCP Store is open. Buy from your console.](https://zsoftly.ca/images/blog/2026/zcp-store-buy-services-and-licences-from-your-console.webp)

Announcements

October 11, 2026

### [ZCP Store: Buy Services and Licences From Your Console](https://zsoftly.ca/blog/zcp-store-buy-services-and-licences-from-your-console)

The Store is a new tab in the ZCP console. Buy support, professional services, dedicated servers and licences there, and they bill on the same invoice as your instances.

ZSoftly Team

5 min read

![ZCP branded engineering cover reading The restart that hid a bug, on a deep blue grid](https://zsoftly.ca/images/blog/2026/the-restart-that-hid-a-libvirt-bug.webp)

Engineering

October 11, 2026

### [The Restart That Hid a Libvirt Bug](https://zsoftly.ca/blog/the-restart-that-hid-a-libvirt-bug)

A seven-minute VM create, two wrong turns, a self-healing timer I built and then deleted, and the package update that fixed it.

Ditah Kumbong

9 min read

![Our CLI and Terraform provider reach v1](https://zsoftly.ca/images/blog/2026/zcp-cli-terraform-v1.webp)

Announcements

October 11, 2026

### [Our CLI and Terraform Provider Reach v1](https://zsoftly.ca/blog/zcp-cli-terraform-v1)

ZCP CLI v1.0.1 and the Terraform and OpenTofu provider v1.0.0 are available today, bringing Pricing V2 configuration, Kubernetes role sizing, VM backup schedules, and lifecycle fixes to automation workflows.

Ditah Kumbong

5 min read

![ZCP blog cover: Your compute. Your storage. Your choice.](https://zsoftly.ca/images/blog/2026/zcp-pricing-v2-compute-and-storage-sold-separately.webp)

Announcements

October 11, 2026

### [ZCP Pricing V2: Compute and Storage Sold Separately](https://zsoftly.ca/blog/zcp-pricing-v2-compute-and-storage-sold-separately)

ZCP plans are now CPU and memory only. You choose the root disk size in GB when you create a server and pay the per-GB rate of the storage tier. Existing servers keep their plan and price.

ZSoftly Team

5 min read

![Private desktops: lessons from testing. ZCP cover showing desktop network paths and NFS shared storage.](https://zsoftly.ca/images/blog/2026/what-we-learned-testing-private-employee-desktops.webp)

Engineering

October 5, 2026

### [Private Desktops: Lessons from Testing](https://zsoftly.ca/blog/what-we-learned-testing-private-employee-desktops)

What to test before a private desktop rollout: daily work, video calls, network paths, storage, and offboarding.

Adjartey Odopey

5 min read

![ZCP announcements: Q3 2026 on ZCP, and work in progress on backups, Kubernetes billing, and the Store.](https://zsoftly.ca/images/blog/2026/zcp-q3-2026-update.webp)

Announcements

October 3, 2026

### [ZCP in Q3 2026: What Shipped, and What Is in Progress](https://zsoftly.ca/blog/zcp-q3-2026-update)

A Q3 review of ZCP, followed by an October update on backup billing, Kubernetes billing, the Store, Marketplace emails, and account security.

ZSoftly Team

4 min read