Version checking is a feature that notifies you on the dashboard whenever a new version is available, or if you are using a version that is outdated.

Version checking is enabled by default, and the server sends a request to https://zipline-version.diced.sh to check requests.

If you want to disable version checking, you can do so by going t the Server Settings page and scrolling to "Features". At the bottom of this card, you will see a toggle for "Version Checking". You can disable it here.

If you want to run your own version checking server, you can do so by setting the Version Checking API field in the Server Settings page. This is useful if you do not want to send requests to https://zipline-version.diced.sh for privacy reasons, or if you want to run your own version checking server.

Visit the zipline-version repository for instructions on how to run your own version checking server.

The default version checking server is hosted on Cloudflare Workers, which is a serverless platform that allows you to run code on the edge. Using workers also allows us to utilize the KV storage API to store and cache version data for faster access. This means that the version checking server is fast, reliable, and can handle a large number of requests without any issues.

The repository also contains a self-hosted version of the version checking server, with the same functionality as the Cloudflare Workers version. This runs a Node.js server that serves the same API, but uses an in-memory cache (internally a Map) to store version data. The performance of this version may not be as good as the workers version, but is still a good option to run your own server.

In theory the server can run on any platform that Hono supports:

• Deno
• AWS Lambda
• Fastly Compute
• Vercel
• Bun

are all supported platforms, but the server has not been built or tested on these platforms. If you would like to help with this feel free to open an issue or PR on the GitHub repository.