Starting up Devhub

If you’re an office early-bird, you may notice that Devhub, our self-hosted version of Canvas, might be turned off. This is by design, and it is a cost-saving measure. We turn off the server when it is not in use. The Devhub EC2 instance can be turned on using Slack.

1. Go to your chat on Slack with yourself

2. Type the following command: /ec2-bot status and send the message. This will provide you with the activity status for Devhub. Look for the name Dev-Canvas-2025 (NEW! Devhub) and copy its EC2_INSTANCE_ID. Example status command response:

    ...
    🛑 stopped || {EC2_INSTANCE_ID} || Dev-Canvas-2025 (NEW! Devhub)
   

3. Next, send the following command as a message: /ec2-bot start {EC2_INSTANCE_ID}. Make sure there’s no formatting on the EC2_INSTANCE_ID, it has to be plain-text in order for this to work.