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6/10/2013 Houston, TX- cPanel, Inc. announces the release of cPanel & WHM software version 11.38. cPanel & WHM software release 11.38, which goes to the RELEASE tier today, offers significant improvements to SSL Management and Backups. It also provides enhancements to jail shell, email auto configuration, and more. Improved SSL …
Most Reliable Hosting Company Sites in May 2013
Rank Performance Graph OS Outagehh:mm:ss FailedReq% DNS […]
Update for cPanel & WHM Versions 11.38, 11.36, 11.34, & 11.32
cPanel, Inc. has published a security update for cPanel & WHM versions 11.38, 11.36, 11.34, and 11.32. This update resolves an issue with unchecked reseller privileges. We recommend all customers update to the latest build of each version as soon as possible. The cPanel Security Team has assigned a rating …
5/7/2013 Houston, TX- cPanel, Inc. announces the release of cPanel & WHM software version 11.38. cPanel & WHM software release 11.38, which releases to the CURRENT tier today, offers significant improvements to SSL Management and Backups. It also provides enhancements to jail shell, email auto configuration, and more. Improved SSL …
cPanel & WHM 11.34 reaches End Of Life October 15, 2013. That means there are only 6 months 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 software release 11.34 will continue functioning on servers after reaching end of life. No further …
Most Reliable Hosting Company Sites in April 2013
Rank
Company site
OS
Outage
hh:mm:ss
Failed
Req%
DNS
Connect
First
byte
Total 1
Swishmail
FreeBSD
0:00:00
0.000
0.106
0.062
0.124
0.267 2
INetU
Windows Server 2008
0:00:00
0.000
0.125
0.073
0.236
0.454 3
iWeb
Linux
0:00:00
0.003
0.127
0.071
0.142
0.142 4
Server Intellect
Windows Server 2008
0:00:00
0.003
0.074
0.092
0.185
0.464 5
Midphase
Linux
0:00:00
0.003
0.215
0.109
0.222
0.338 6
Qube Managed Services
Linux
0:00:00
0.006
0.100
0.046
0.093
0.093 7
Bigstep
Linux
0:00:00
0.006
0.266
0.071
0.143
0.143 8
Hyve Managed Hosting
Linux
0:00:00
0.006
0.252
0.074
0.145
0.151 9
Datapipe
FreeBSD
0:00:00
0.009
0.068
0.016
0.032
0.049 10
Pair Networks
FreeBSD
0:00:00
0.016
0.231
0.077
0.157
0.486 See full table Swishmail had the most reliable hosting company site in April 2013, with no failed requests. Swishmail has a presence in three New York data centres which proved to be resilient when Swishmail stayed online in October whilst being hit by Hurricane Sandy, […]
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April 8, 2013 Houston, TX- cPanel Inc., announces the release of cPanel & WHM software version 11.36 to the STABLE tier. Included in this brand new software release are further improvements to the update system, building on work started with cPanel & WHM 11.30. A new staging step during installation …
cPanel & WHM Security Releases for 11.32, 11.34, and 11.36
cPanel has published security updates for all supported versions of cPanel & WHM. These updates contain fixes for a problem with the Roundcube webmail application. We recommend all customers update to the latest build of each version as soon as possible. The cPanel Security Team has assigned a rating of …
Most Reliable Hosting Company Sites in March 2013
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cPanel & WHM 11.32 reaches end of life August 20, 2013. That means there are only 5 months left in the life cycle. In accordance with our End of Life Policy cPanel & WHM 11.32 will continue functioning on servers after reaching end of life. No further updates, including security …
March 11, 2013 Houston, TX- cPanel Inc., announces the release of cPanel & WHM 11.36 to the RELEASE tier. Included in this brand new release are further improvements to the update system, building on work started with cPanel & WHM 11.30. A new staging step during installation allows a variety …
Most Reliable Hosting Company Sites in February 2013
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Important: cPanel & WHM 11.36, 11.34, and 11.32 Security Releases
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 important security impact. Information on …
Most Reliable Hosting Company Sites in January 2013
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cPanel Inc., announces the release of EasyApache 3.18, our powerful and simple-to-use script that you can use to update and configure your Apache web server. The most important feature of this new release is Apache 2.4, the latest version of the Apache web server. However, we have made a few …
cPanel & WHM 11.36, CURRENT Tier Release
January 28, 2013 Houston, TX- cPanel Inc., announces the release of cPanel & WHM 11.36 to the CURRENT tier. Included in this brand new release are further improvements to the update system, building on work started with cPanel & WHM 11.30. A new staging step during installation allows a variety …
This is the notification of the End of Life for cPanel & WHM 11.30 The 18-month lifetime of cPanel & WHM 11.30 ends now. The last release of cPanel & WHM 11.30, being 11.30.8.0, will remain on our mirrors indefinitely. You may continue using this last release, however no updates …
cPanel has published a new security release, 11.34.1.7, containing Rails and ProFTPd security fixes. We recommend that all affected customers on the CURRENT, RELEASE, and STABLE tiers update to 11.34.1.7 as soon as possible. This release addresses two major vulnerabilities with Ruby on Rails (CVE-2012-5664 and CVE-2013-0156) which are resolved …
State of IPv6 in cPanel & WHM IPv4 IP allocation depletion is somewhat analogous to Y2K. The solution is essentially the same, except instead of going from 2 to 4 decimal digits in a year, we’re going from 32 to 128 binary digits in IP addresses while still supporting the …
Most Reliable Hosting Company Sites in December 2012
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cPanel recently released EasyApache 3.16. This version of EasyApache contains an updated version of ModSecurity that has an important change to Rule IDs which will affect you. In addition to the RuleID change, another change in ModSecurity that affects directive names will be incorporated into EasyApache 3.18. Unique Rule IDs …
In 11.36, cPanel will ship with a distribution of Perl 5.14.3. This version of Perl will be located inside the /usr/local/cpanel tree to avoid problems with the RPMs provided by the distro. While the installer will still require basic Perl, cPanel will no longer need /usr/bin/perl in order to function. …
cPanel and Attracta Relationship Redefined
For Immediate Release December 10, 2012 Houston, TX- cPanel officially announces that its partnership with Attracta has been redefined. The relationship between the two companies has now shifted from Attracta being bundled with cPanel to Attracta being included as part of cPanel’s third party application catalog. Integrating Attracta as part …
Case 60203 Summary Password hashes truncated by 0×80 characters Security Rating cPanel has assigned a Security Level of “Moderate” to this vulnerability. Description cPanel & WHM relies on the Crypt::Passwd::XS Perl module to perform password hashing. This module suffers from the same vulnerability disclosed in CVE-2012-2143 where passwords with the …
Case 59926 Summary Multiple privilege escalation vulnerabilities due to the use of Storable for serialization Security Rating cPanel has assigned a Security Level of “Important” to this vulnerability. Description The Perl Storable module provides support for serialization and deserialization of Perl data structures. In cPanel & WHM this functionality is …
Case 61251 Summary Arbitrary code execution via translatable phrases due to the use of Locale::Maketext Security Rating cPanel has assigned a Security Level of “Important” to this vulnerability. Description The Perl Locale::Maketext module is used to render translatable phrases into a user’s chosen locale. cPanel & WHM uses this module …
Case 60970 Summary Privilege escalation vulnerabilities due to the use of YAML::Syck for serialization Security Rating cPanel has assigned a Security Level of “Important” to this vulnerability. Description The Perl YAML::Syck module provides support for serialization and deserialization of data structures using the YAML format. In cPanel & WHM this …
Case 62230 Summary Shell code injection via translatable phrases in Cpanel::Locale Security Rating cPanel has assigned a Security Level of “Important” to this vulnerability. Description The Cpanel::Locale module wraps around Perl’s Locale::Maketext module and extends it to provide additional Maketext tags and functionality. Locale::Maketext is used to render translatable phrases …