The annual cPanel Conference is headed home to vibrant Houston, TX! Attracting attendees from around the globe, you will get an exclusive opportunity for personal development, intense learning, and the best networking events in the industry. While we believe that there are countless reasons why you should attend the cPanel Annual Conference, we’ve managed to narrow it down to five. Hear from the experts Our speakers are …
Archive for Apache
The Legacy Backup system will be deprecated in cPanel & WHM Version 74, and we anticipate support for Legacy Backups will be removed in Version 82 (currently expected in mid-2019). Before that happens, though, we are focusing on expanding the functionality available for the “new” Backup System. This replacement to the Legacy Backup system offers a more robust, faster, and over-all better backup solution. Better, Stronger… In case you haven’t heard, the cPanel & WHM Backup System, …
Which SSL is Right For Me?
Early this year Google announced that it would start warning users when a site they visited was not using an SSL, and we helped you understand the reasons behind SSLs. Today, let’s talk about picking the right one! No matter what sort of website you may host, protecting and encrypting the data transmitted over the internet has never been more important. From consumer apprehension due to browser warnings to identity theft due to …
This is the sixth and final blog post in a series around Git and a new feature in version 72, Git Version Control. See the full list of entries in this series at the end of this post! This post talks about something that we’re adding in Version 74, which we expect will be entering EDGE sometime during the first week of July, and will be headed to CURRENT sometime in July! If you have been …
A new well-designed phishing email has been aimed at cPanel users recently, and we want to help all of our users stay safe. What is Phishing? Phishing, by definition, is the act of attempting to acquire information such as usernames, passwords, and credit card details (and sometimes, indirectly, money) by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication. Phishing emails can be sent to any email address. The most effective phishing emails make use …
New SSL Standard Hooks for cPanel & WHM Integrators!
Hello, all you lovely people out in third-party developerland! Don’t you hate it when you’re installing an SSL certificate through a script or API calls, but there’s some action that you want to take before or after the installation? Well, thanks to the hardworking folks on the Development Team, cPanel & WHM Version now includes a Standardized Hook for the SSL Installation event. What is a Standard Hook? Standardized Hooks are our way to help developers trigger events …
This is the fifth in a series of blog posts around Git and a new feature in cPanel & WHM Version 72, Git Version Control. In case you missed the others, there is a list at the bottom of this post. Keep watching for a new one every Wednesday! If you follow our feature request site, you already know about our upcoming feature, Git Version Control. We have designed it to make hosting repositories …
This post was originally added to our blog on Aug 18th, 2016. It has been updated for accuracy, and readability. In the blog post “Managing Multiple Domains from a Single Hosting Account,” we explain how to manage different domains you may own in a single cPanel hosting account. There may be certain circumstances or occasions where you will want to split off an addon domain into its own cPanel account. In the following blog post, …
Managing Multiple Domains from a Single Hosting Account
This post was originally added to our blog on January 31st, 2012. It has been updated for accuracy, and readibility. cPanel has made it easier to manage your domains in a single place. In this post, we will go over how to add another domain to your existing cPanel account. This tutorial will require that you have a hosting account and have access to cPanel to add the domain. Are you unfamiliar with what DNS is or what the different …
Git Version Control Series: Setting Up Git
This is the fourth in a series of blog posts around Git and a new feature in cPanel & WHM Version 72, Git Version Control. In case you missed them, there is a list at the bottom of this post. Keep watching for a new one every Wednesday! If you follow our feature request site, you already know about our upcoming feature, Git™ Version Control. We’re designing it to make hosting repositories as easy …
Privacy Shield Certification We’ve been keeping you up-to-date about how the GDPR impacts our policies and agreements. Today we are making two changes to our policies that are affected by the GDPR. As I noted in my May 24, 2018 blog post, we had not, at that time, received notice that our Privacy Policy had been certified by the U.S. / E.U. / Swiss Privacy Shield program. Our Privacy Policy has now been certified, and …
Removal of PHP 5.4 and PHP 5.5 in EasyApache Profiles
The week of June 18th we will be removing PHP version 5.4 and 5.5 from all cPanel-provided EasyApache 4 profiles. To help users understand what to do, and how to react when that change occurs, we’ve put together a quick list of questions that we think will frequently be asked. What exactly will happen? The week of June 18th (likely on June 18th, but maybe June 19th), we will push an update for EasyApache 4 …
This is the third in a series of blog posts around Git and a new feature coming in version 72, Git Version Control. You can see the first post: What is Git? Last week we showed you the new Git Version Control interface. Keep watching for a new one every Wednesday! If you follow our feature request site, you already know about our upcoming feature, Git Version Control. We’re designing it to make …
The cPanel backup system provides lots of flexibility, and one of its awesome features is the ability to create custom backup transports. In cPanel, a backup transport or destination is a method to move backups to a secondary/remote server for safe keeping. The custom backup transport feature allows you to specify a script which the backup system will pass arguments to; arguments common with uploading files in FTP, e.g. ‘put $filename’. Reading over the documentation, …
This is the second in a series of blog posts around Git and a new feature coming in version 72, Git Version Control. You can see the first here: What is Git? We got waylaid by the GDPR last week, but continue watching for a new one every Wednesday! If you follow our feature request site, you already know about our upcoming feature, Git Version Control. We’re designing it to make hosting repositories as easy …
Communication Re-Opt In We’ve been preparing in several ways to support our commitments to customers and end users. Per GDPR regulations and our data processing practices, if you wish to receive communications from cPanel moving forward, you must re-opt in by completing this form. GDPR cPanel has recently updated a number of its agreements to facilitate GDPR compliance. We’ve done two things: We’ve revised our privacy policy …
This is a guest blog post provided by Kevin McGrail. Kevin is a respected member of the hosting industry, a huge supporter of the Open Source community, and an alumni speaker at the annual cPanel Conference. There are a lot of reasons to choose cPanel & WHM as your web hosting control panel. It’s got tons of features, great support and it lets everyone from Mom n’ Pop to Enterprise customers easily manage their hosting. …
Greetings and Salutations! Hello everyone! My name is Phil, and I am the newest member of the Community team at cPanel! I’m very excited to join the Community Team and work with everyone who touches cPanel & WHM! I have worked in the web hosting industry for about 7 years. My roles have included frontline support, system administrator, and communications. I’ve been very lucky in taking two things that I love (arguing and the internet) …
Git Version Control series: What is Git?
This is the first in a series of blog posts around Git and a new feature coming in version 72, Git Version Control. Watch for a new one every Wednesday! If you follow our feature request site, you already know about our upcoming feature, Git Version Control. We’re designing it to make hosting repositories as easy for developers as a “Hello World!” script. Before we send the feature your way, though, we want to …
As most any Hosting Provider will tell you, looking for new ways to promote services, gain more business, and earn new customers is one of the most important things they do every day. At the same time, both new and experienced cPanel users alike are visiting these Hosting Providers sites looking at what they’re offering. There are, of course, an unlimited number of reasons people shop around for new hosting, and those reasons are always evolving. …
Introducing mod_cpanel
As of the second cPanel & WHM Targeted Security Release of 2018 (TSR-2018-0002), the Optimize .htaccess feature was removed from all supported cPanel & WHM versions. This difficult decision was the result of some security concerns with its implementation. In its place, we have released the mod_cpanel Apache module. This module will begin to improve upon the features that Optimize .htaccess provided. What is Optimize .htaccess and why is cPanel replacing it? When we released it, …
Are you coming to cPConf 2018?
The Annual cPanel Conference is a staple in the webhosting community. Last year’s conference was such a blast! We met so many new people and got to catch up with all our old friends. The details of this year’s cPanel Conference (October 1-3, in Houston, Texas) are falling into place, and we’re looking forward to having you join us! Who will be there? Companies and disciplines from every corner of the hosting industry will be represented.
Zero to WordPress
Here at cPanel, Inc., we want to empower our users to take control of their own cPanel & WHM server. This can seem very daunting at first, but we are here to show you anyone can build a cPanel & WHM server with a WordPress site. We will be addressing some very technical topics, but have linked additional tutorials with more information. Let’s begin! Getting Started By the end of this tutorial, you will have purchased …
Update on GDPR Progress
It’s been just about two months since our last update. Our GDPR compliance efforts are moving quickly. We are in the final stages of preparing a privacy policy that meets the requirements of the U.S. / EU / Swiss Privacy Shield process. If are a customer, and you need an advance copy of our privacy policy to facilitate your GDPR efforts, please email gdprquestions [at] cpanel.net. Data processing agreements We will soon be updating our …
Greetings! Hello everyone! My name is Megan and I’m the newest Community Manager to join the team at cPanel. I’m really excited to join the team and ready to hit the ground running. I have a background in community outreach and digital marketing. Over the last year and a half, I became involved in the startup and tech community by participating in hackathons, organizing events, and learning to code. I am also one of the curators for Houston Startup Digest. My hobbies …
It’s been almost two months since we announced the delay of cPanel & WHM Version 70. In that time, we’ve done a whole lot of work. We’re entering brand new territory for us, and Version 70 is at the center of it all. Why the Delay? In late January of this year, we found a performance issue in our backup system that we needed to address before v70 went to the RELEASE tier. Our research revealed …
The Death of SquirrelMail
As of cPanel & WHM version 74, we will begin to deprecate our support of SquirrelMail, one of our bundled webmail applications. We expect to stop shipping SquirrelMail for new installations of cPanel & WHM in version 76 and will remove our support with version 78. As this change will disrupt many users, we are taking this opportunity to explain the reasons behind our decision. We also are opening a dialogue with you, our community, about …
We’ve added greater flexibility to how cPanel users can manage, protect, and administer email addresses on their mail server. You can now suspend or queue the outgoing mail from a single email account on your server. In case you’re not already familiar with the full administrative capabilities of Webmail, here’s a short run down. Receive Notifications of Send Limits Get alerts about accounts that are sending massive amounts of emails by entering Tweak Settings …
Last night, we pushed an update to EasyApache4 wherein after the update was installed Apache service may fail to restart properly. Upon checking the Apache error log, you may see error messaging similar to the following: Server xxxxxxx.com Primary IP Address xxxxxxxxxx Service Name httpd Service Status failed Notification The service “httpd” appears to be down. Service Check Method The system failed to connect to this service’s TCP/IP port. Reason Service check failed to complete …
How and Why to Build an EDGE Server
* This post was originally posted on September 27, 2016, and has been updated for accuracy. The Tiered Release System The tiered release system was introduced early in the development of cPanel & WHM. We knew it would be important to appeal to all types of users, from the risk-taking early adopters to the stability-seeking delayers. Each tier represents a different risk vs reward ratio, and today we’re here to talk …