SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (Nov. 20, 2013) – GoDaddy, the world’s largest Web hosting provider, has revamped its Linux Web hosting lineup, with the addition of cPanel & WHM, the popular Web hosting management software. In addition, customers are also benefitting from a new Web hosting architecture that provides a fast and …
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cPanel & WHM software version 11.36 will reach End of Life in January 2014. In accordance with our EOL policy [http://docs.cpanel.net/twiki/bin/view/AllDocumentation/InstallationGuide/LongTermSupport], 11.36 will continue functioning on servers after reaching EOL. However, no further updates, such as security fixes and installations, will be provided for 11.36 once it reaches its EOL …
11/5/2013 Houston, TX – cPanel, Inc. is thrilled to release cPanel & WHM software version 11.40, which is now available in the RELEASE tier. cPanel & WHM version 11.40 offers support for IPv6 and 1:1 NAT, an API Shell, and more. IPv6 Support cPanel & WHM is now IPv6-enabled with …
11.34 EOL Notice
This notification announces the End of Life for cPanel & WHM version 11.34. The 12-month lifetime of cPanel & WHM version 11.34 ends now. The last release of cPanel & WHM 11.34, being 11.34.2.8, will remain on our mirrors indefinitely. You may continue using this last release, but we will …
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iWeb
Linux
0:00:00
0.006
0.153
0.090
0.178
0.178 2
Hosting 4 Less
Linux
0:00:00
0.006
0.181
0.120
0.239
0.610 3
Qube Managed Services
Linux
0:00:00
0.009
0.128
0.064
0.129
0.129 4
www.uk2.net
Linux
0:00:00
0.009
0.172
0.090
0.184
0.320 5
Swishmail
FreeBSD
0:00:00
0.012
0.145
0.090
0.177
0.249 6
Virtual Internet
Linux
0:00:00
0.012
0.154
0.093
0.269
0.476 7
XILO Communications Ltd.
Linux
0:00:00
0.015
0.238
0.093
0.193
0.348 8
Pair Networks
FreeBSD
0:00:00
0.018
0.240
0.090
0.183
0.579 9
Data Centers Canada
Linux
0:00:00
0.021
0.077
0.092
0.191
0.409 10
Anexia
Linux
0:00:00
0.021
0.250
0.122
0.483
0.844 See full table Montreal based iWeb was the most reliable hosting company in October 2013 with only two failed requests. Two days ago the US IT-infrastructure company Internap announced plans to buy iWeb in a deal worth $145m. Both companies provide IaaS and are corporate […]
cPanel has released new builds for all public update tiers. These updates provide targeted changes to address security concerns with the cPanel & WHM product. These builds are currently available to all customers via the standard update system. cPanel has rated these updates as having security impact levels ranging from …
10/10/2013 Houston, TX – As previously announced in our cPanel & WHM 11.40 Webinar and at cPanel Conference 2013, cPanel, Inc. is thrilled to release cPanel & WHM software version 11.40, which is now available in the CURRENT tier. cPanel & WHM version 11.40 offers support for IPv6 and 1:1 …
Qube Managed Services had the most reliable hosting company site in September 2013, with not a single failed request throughout the whole month, and an average connection time of only 0.066 seconds.
SUMMARY Three CVEs were reported for WordPress 3.6 and WordPress has released an upgraded version to address theses vulnerabilities. cPanel has updated the WordPress version delivered via the cPAddons functionality in WHM to the new version of 3.6.1. AFFECTED VERSIONS All versions of WordPress 3.6.0 and below. SECURITY RATING US-CERT/NIST …
[Read this article in English] 作为2012年度世界最大的贸易国,中国长期以来一直是一个劳动力和服务输出大国,即便是在信息技术领域,也和印度的差距越来越小。以亚马逊和DigitalOcean为代表的欧美云计算服务提供商的不断发展壮大,预示着云计算基础设施会成为一种商品,而那些最廉价的提供商则会逐渐受到用户的青睐。
中国网民数量在2013年6月达到了5.91亿,超越了美国和欧洲。把互联网应用和其他内容放在目标用户所在的国家可以有效缩短访问所需时间并提高访问稳定性,所以日益增加的网民数量对本国的互联网基础设施建设提出了要求。 中国云主机市场的极速发展 在过去一年,在中国大陆境内直接连接到国际互联网的Web服务器数量增长了8.3%,且绝大多数增长都来自于云主机市场。在直接连接到国际互联网的Web服务器数量方面,阿里云是目前中国最大的云主机提供商。特别值得一提的是,阿里云拥有的直接连接到国际互联网的Web服务器数量在2013年9月达到了17,934,比去年同期增长了6倍。放眼全球,其增长量仅次于云计算巨头亚马逊。 虽然中国的云计算基础设施建设尚处于起步阶段,但阿里云的未来还是很有希望的,因为它背靠着强大的阿里巴巴集团。阿里巴巴集团是中国拥有直接连接到国际互联网的Web服务器数量最多的公司,也是世界前30名之一,而且该集团旗下的淘宝网和阿里巴巴交易市场等电子商务平台早已在中国家喻户晓。在阿里巴巴集团直接连接到国际互联网的Web服务器当中,有92%来自于阿里云。 Metric
Sep 2012
Mar 2013
Jun 2013
Jul 2013
Aug 2013
Sep 2013 Hostnames
91,553
205,824
382,342
381,989
368,948
389,171 Active sites
23,596
55,654
119,089
116,835
146,310
150,089 Web-facing computers
2,670
8,038
15,931
16,846
17,670
17,934 Detailed view of Aliyun in terms of hostnames (web sites), active sites, and web-facing computers.
本土市场与中国防火长城
尽管中国云主机市场增长迅猛,但是Netcraft发现这些增长绝大多数都来自于面向中国本土市场的网站。把服务器尽可能安置在离终端用户较近的地方可以提高访问性能这一点在中国格外突出:可能是受到金盾工程(亦称中国防火长城)的影响,流入或流出中国大陆的网络数据有时候会很慢,不稳定,甚至被屏蔽。2013年9月,从阿里云连接到国际互联网的网站的域名有一半以上都在.cn顶级域下,有41%是.com,而在其他国家顶级域下的域名则非常少见。由此可推断,与亚马逊的全球化服务不同,阿里云目前还是比较局限于中国本土市场。 TLD share by domains of websites at Aliyun in September 2013 阻碍中国云服务全球的绊脚石 对于想吸引中国用户或访客的外国企业来说,使用中国境内的云主机是很有意义的,但是会遇到一些障碍。这些障碍也正解释了为什么中国云目前面向的主要还是本国用户且这种情况很可能还会持续一段时间: 和最廉价的外国云主机提供商相比,中国云主机提供商在价格和操作系统等配置选择的多样性上都没有优势。以阿里云为例,除非选择2核或4核的CPU,否则按量付费的云主机不支持Windows操作系统,而且其价格也不比那些更成熟的竞争对手便宜。最廉价的按量付费的阿里云主机为单核CPU,512M内存,1Mbps带宽,价格每小时0.27元(约合0.04美金),几乎是亚马逊最便宜的云主机价格的两倍,而配置相近的DigitalOcean云主机的价格仅为每小时0.007美金。但是,由于定价模式的差异,包年包月的阿里云主机在某些情况下会比包年包月的亚马逊或DigitalOcean更便宜。 从海外访问中国境内的网站有时不够顺畅 – 从英国发送到阿里云官方网站的数据包往返几乎要耗时半秒钟,而从美国访问的效果也没有好很多。在过去20天,有多达4%的来自荷兰的访问请求都以失败告终。 Performance of www.aliyun.com from a Netcraft performance collector located in the Netherlands 很多中国主机服务提供商只支持中文。以阿里云为例,无论是官方网站、控制面板还是技术支持,中文都是其唯一的语言。不过,亚马逊云对中文的支持也几乎一样有限 – 只有首页有中文版。 有些中国主机服务提供商只面向中国客户。例如:申请使用阿里云服务的用户必须要有一个中国的手机号来接收验证码以完成注册。按量付费的用户必须通过身份验证,而只有中国或个别亚太地区国家的公民或者中国的企业可以做这样的验证。想使用阿里云服务的客户还必须有一张与支付宝兼容的中国的银行卡。如果服务器需要通过域名访问,那么还必须在工信部备案,而这样的备案并不向外国企业开放。 这些障碍意味着中国的云主机服务目前还不太可能冲出中国,面向世界。但是,伴随着来自阿里云这样的本地提供商和微软、亚马逊这样的海外提供商之间的竞争,中国的云服务器数量很有可能会继续增长,来满足国内日益增多的需求。微软为了将其云主机服务打入中国市场,已经开始与中国的一家名为世纪互联的基础设施服务提供商进行合作,并且正在为中国市场定制极具竞争力的价格计划。也许通过这样的模式,其他外国企业(比如亚马逊)也可以将其云主机服务打入中国市场,不仅提供本地的数据中心,同时也争取在严格的监管环境下为中国客户提供支持。同样的,如果上述这些障碍能够在一定程度上得到解决,相信阿里云和其他中国云主机提供商也能够在国际大舞台上获得更多的市场份额。 Netcraft提供国际互联网基础设施方面的信息,包括主机服务提供商、网页技术等等。想了解更多关于云计算行业的信息,请访问 http://www.netcraft.com/internet-data-mining/。
China, the world’s largest trading nation in 2012, has long been a desirable location for outsourcing labour and services, even within the technology and IT sector where it is not far behind India. The growth of cloud computing providers in Europe and the United States — particularly Amazon and DigitalOcean — may foretell cloud computing […]
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TSR-2013-0009 Announcement cPanel has released new builds for all public update tiers. These updates provide targeted changes to address security concerns with the cPanel & WHM product. These builds are currently available to all customers via the standard update system. cPanel has rated these updates as having security impact levels …
SUMMARY The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 5.4.19 and PHP 5.5.3. These releases fix a bug in the patch for CVE-2013-4248 in the OpenSSL module and a compile failure with ZTS enabled in PHP 5.4. All PHP users are encouraged to upgrade to either PHP 5.5.3 …
Is it possible to estimate the revenue of a hosting company based on its public presence — that is, is the number of websites it hosts directly proportional to its market value? By using the market capitalisation (or acquisition purchase price, where appropriate) as a valuation and examining the number of web-facing computers, a […]
SUMMARY The PHP development team has announced the immediate availability of PHP 5.5.2. This release contains approximately 20 bug fixes, including a security issue in the OpenSSL module (CVE-2013-4248) and a session fixation problem (CVE-2011-4718). All users of PHP are encouraged to upgrade to this release. cPanel has released EasyApache …
SUMMARY The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 5.4.18. About 30 bugs were fixed, including security issues CVE-2013-4113 and CVE-2013-4248. All users of PHP are encouraged to upgrade to this release. cPanel has released EasyApache 3.22.5 with this updated version of PHP 5.4.18 to address this issue. …
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Impending EOL, 11.32
cPanel & WHM 11.32 reaches End of Life in August, 2013. That means there is less than one month left in the life cycle. In accordance with our [End of Life Policy](“http://docs.cpanel.net/twiki/bin/view/AllDocumentation/InstallationGuide/LongTermSupport“) cPanel & WHM 11.32 will continue functioning on servers after reaching End of Life. No further updates, including …
SUMMARY The Apache HTTPD Server Project have released httpd-2.2.25 and httpd-2.4.6 to correct multiple vulnerabilities that were issues CVE’s. Apache HTTP Server 2.2.25 CVE-2013-1896 mod_dav: Sending a MERGE request against a URI handled by mod_dav_svn with the source href (sent as part of the request body as XML) pointing to …
SUMMARY Mod_Security was found to have a Remote Null Pointer Dereference vulnerability that could cause it to crash. SECURITY RATING The cPanel Security Team has rated this update has having moderate security impact. Information on security ratings is available at: http://go.cpanel.net/securitylevels. DETAIL CVE-2013-2765 states: “When forceRequestBodyVariable action is triggered and …
cPanel has released new builds for all public update tiers. These updates provide targeted changes to address security concerns with the cPanel & WHM product. These builds are currently available to all customers via the standard update system. cPanel has rated these updates as having security impact levels ranging from …
July 9, 2013 Houston, TX- cPanel, Inc announces the release of EasyApache 3.20 The 3.20 release of EasyApache brings a number of improvements to the cPanel & WHM hosting platform. Notable among these is Tomcat 7, the modern means of providing Java web applications. Tomcat 7 provides a Tomcat Administrator …
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Important: cPanel Security Disclosure TSR-2013-0007 The following disclosure covers the Targeted Security Release 2013-06-26. Each vulnerability is assigned an internal case number which is reflected below. Information regarding the cPanel Security Level rankings can be found here:http://go.cpanel.net/securitylevels Case 71193 Summary Local cPanel users are able to take over ownership of …
6/24/2013 Houston, TX- Anticipated this week, June 24th, 2013, 11.39 will be pushed to the EDGE tier. This new build includes the following changes and updates to cPanel & WHM software: -Added support for using cPanel & WHM in a 1:1 NAT environment -Dovecot is upgraded to version 2.2 and …
6/18/2013 Houston, TX- cPanel, Inc. announces the impending release of cPanel & WHM software version 11.38. cPanel & WHM software release 11.38, is anticipated to move to the STABLE tier the week of June 24, 2013. This release offers significant improvements to SSL Management and Backups. It also provides enhancements …