Hello Ploi Cloud Team,

First of all, great work on Ploi Cloud — the product, UX, and especially the transparent pricing are excellent. It’s one of the most promising Laravel-friendly cloud platforms I’ve seen.

I’d like to suggest a feature that I believe would add significant value to Ploi Cloud and make it even more competitive with serverless-style platforms like Vercel, Fly.io, and Cloud Run:

App Hibernation (Scale-to-Zero) for Idle Applications

What the feature would do

Allow applications to automatically hibernate (scale down to zero or minimal resources) after a configurable period of inactivity, then wake up automatically when traffic resumes.

Why this matters

• Cost efficiency for small & early-stage projects Many users (especially indie developers, startups, and SaaS builders) run apps with low or sporadic traffic. Hibernation allows them to stay on Ploi Cloud long-term without unnecessary costs.

• Perfect fit for staging, demos, and MVPs Temporary environments don’t need to stay fully running 24/7.

• Competitive differentiation This would position Ploi Cloud closer to “serverless convenience” while keeping the power of real Laravel apps — a strong differentiator in the market.

• Customer retention & upsell Users can start cheap with hibernation-enabled apps and later upgrade to always-on or higher-performance plans as their traffic grows.

Possible implementation ideas (optional)

• Inactivity-based hibernation (e.g. after X minutes with no requests)
• Manual hibernate / wake toggle
• Optional cold-start notification or timeout configuration
• Disabled for apps using workers or always-on processes (opt-in only)

I understand this is not a trivial feature, but I truly believe it aligns perfectly with Ploi Cloud’s vision of simplicity, transparency, and developer-first experience.

Thanks again for building such a great platform. I’d be happy to provide more feedback or use this feature early if you ever open a beta.

Best regards