11.34 EOL Notice

Nov01
by Ike on November 1, 2013 at 9:34 pm
Posted In: 11.34, Community, cPanel, EOL, Hosting, News, Release Announcements

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 not release any further updates for version 11.34 going forward. Older releases of cPanel & WHM 11.34 will be removed from our mirrors.

cPanel strongly recommends that you migrate any existing installations of cPanel & WHM version 11.34 to a newer version (either 11.38 or 11.40).

If your server setup complicates the process of migrating to a newer version of cPanel & WHM (for example, an out-of-date operating system), then cPanel is here to help. Simply open a support ticket at https://tickets.cpanel.net/submit so that our knowledgable support team can provide recommendations, migration assistance, and more.

For detailed information regarding Long Term Support, visit: http://docs.cpanel.net/twiki/bin/view/AllDocumentation/InstallationGuide/LongTermSupport.

About cPanel, Inc.
Since 1997, cPanel, Inc. has been a leading innovator and developer of control panel software for the web hosting industry. cPanel builds software that allows web host professionals to transform standalone servers into fully automated, point-and-click web hosting platforms. cPanel-licensed software allows server and website owners, along with resellers and developers, to optimize their technical resources and replace tedious shell-oriented tasks with dynamic, intuitive web-based interfaces. For more information, visit http://cpanel.net.

For the PGP signed message, see 2013-11.34-EOL-Final-signed.

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Joomla! 3.2 Release Candidate Released

Nov01
by Ike on November 1, 2013 at 5:30 pm
Posted In: CMS, Community, Joomla, Project Release News, Releases


Joomla BetaThe Joomla! Project is pleased to announce the availability of the Joomla! CMS 3.2 Release Candidate. Community members are asked to download and install the package in order to provide quality assurance for Joomla 3.2. Joomla 3.2 is scheduled for release on or around November 6th, 2013.

A big thank you goes out to everyone that contributed to Joomla 3.2! Joomla 3.2 will be our largest release ever, in terms of bug fixes and new features. Right now we’re at about 1045 commits since 3.1.5’s release with 50 different people contributing to commits (not including testers and other non-coding activities). And best of all is that the new features are awesome!

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Most Reliable Hosting Company Sites in October 2013

Nov01
by Ike on November 1, 2013 at 4:30 pm
Posted In: Hosting, Performance
Rank Performance Graph OS Outage
hh:mm:ss		 Failed
Req%		 DNS Connect First
byte		 Total
1 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 sponsors of the OpenStack foundation. Internap has data centres around the world which will allow iWeb to expand on its four data centres, all based in Canada.

Hosting 4 Less was the second most reliable hosting company; it also only had two failed requests but its slower average connection time was used as the decider. 2nd place is its highest ranking this year, having also been ranked 2nd in September 2012. Qube Managed Services, who regularly feature in the top 10, ranked third this month having been the most reliable hosting company in September.

UK2 celebrated their 15th year in business this month and are again the fourth most reliable hosting company. UK2 cater to a wide range of customers, from individuals and small businesses wanting to create an online presence with their Website Builder tool to larger websites using its Xen based Virtual Servers and dedicated hosting.

Linux is used by eight of the top ten with the remaining two, Swishmail and Pair Networks using FreeBSD. Netcetera was the most reliable Windows hosting company again this month – although just outside the top 10 in 12th place. 8 of the top 10 are using the Apache web server including the top four companies.

Netcraft measures and makes available the response times of around forty leading hosting providers’ sites. The performance measurements are made at fifteen minute intervals from separate points around the internet, and averages are calculated over the immediately preceding 24 hour period.

From a customer’s point of view, the percentage of failed requests is more pertinent than outages on hosting companies’ own sites, as this gives a pointer to reliability of routing, and this is why we choose to rank our table by fewest failed requests, rather than shortest periods of outage. In the event the number of failed requests are equal then sites are ranked by average connection times.

Information on the measurement process and current measurements is available.

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November 2013 Web Server Survey

Nov01
by Ike on November 1, 2013 at 12:57 pm
Posted In: Web Server Survey

In the November 2013 survey we received responses from 785,293,473 sites, reflecting net growth of more than 18 million sites since last month.

Microsoft experienced the largest gains this month, with an additional 13.2 million sites taking its market share up by 1.15 percentage points. In contrast to recent trends, nginx’s market share fell by more than 2 percentage points to 14.0% after it lost 13.1 million sites. Despite the absolute gain at Microsoft being almost the same as the number of lost nginx sites, this is merely a coincidence — only 1.2 million nginx sites actually switched to using IIS this month (0.8 million of which opted for IIS 6.0), whereas 1.4 million switched to Apache. 23 million nginx sites that were present in last month’s survey have since expired, including a large number of .ru domains previously hosted by Hetzner Online.

nginx enjoyed better fortunes amongst the million busiest sites, where it extended its market share by 0.22 percentage points to 15.31%, placing it 2.46 points ahead of Microsoft. File sharing site

rapidshare.com has recently started displaying an nginx Server header; previously the site did not reveal which server software it was running, and

New Zealand Post has switched from Apache to nginx.

Google’s market share went up to 4.81% this month (+0.36) after gaining 3.6 million sites, and could be set to grow even further now that the
Google App Engine PHP runtime is widely available. In January,

244 million sites were using PHP (mostly on Apache), highlighting the strong demand. Once a PHP application has been deployed on App Engine, it can make direct use of
Google Cloud Storage through existing PHP filesystem functions such as fopen and file_put_contents.

Google is specifically targeting WordPress users to migrate to App Engine — Google have produced an
App Engine plugin for WordPress to allow it to interact with App Engine-specific services such as mail and storage. Google cites

motherboard.vice.com as one of the early adopters of the App Engine PHP runtime, having moved from nginx running on Amazon EC2. Vice’s in-house content management system is powered by the
Yii PHP framework, and was moved fully over to App Engine during a limited preview period.

Developer October 2013 Percent November 2013 Percent Change
Apache 344,408,387 44.89% 348,159,702 44.33% -0.55
Microsoft 177,216,296 23.10% 190,451,702 24.25% 1.15
nginx 123,114,800 16.05% 109,968,564 14.00% -2.04
Google 34,127,482 4.45% 37,748,743 4.81% 0.36

Developer October 2013 Percent November 2013 Percent Change
Apache 98,646,225 52.14% 98,744,971 51.59% -0.56
nginx 24,255,815 12.82% 24,232,199 12.66% -0.16
Google 22,146,345 11.71% 24,169,761 12.63% 0.92
Microsoft 20,119,180 10.64% 20,253,848 10.58% -0.05

For more information see Active Sites

Developer October 2013 Percent November 2013 Percent Change
Apache 565,711 56.57% 562,421 56.24% -0.33
nginx 150,843 15.08% 153,054 15.31% 0.22
Microsoft 129,269 12.93% 128,494 12.85% -0.08
Google 32,038 3.20% 31,866 3.19% -0.02


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Parallels Plesk Panel 11.5.30 MU#21

Nov01
by Ike on November 1, 2013 at 3:45 am
Posted In: Plesk, Releases

The following functionality was improved:
 

[*] (Windows) All Plesk settings are now automatically backed up to the folder “%plesk_dir%”MySQLBackup.

The following issues were resolved:

[-] Plesk did not warn the administrator when unsigned backup files were copied from FTP to the server repository.
[-] Subdomain creation took a long time if the subscription contained a huge number of files and directories. (PPPM-851)
[-] (Windows) Plesk reset the administrator’s password after a restart. (PPPM-950)
[-] (Linux) A vulnerability in RoundCube was removed. (CVE-2013-6172)


Additionally, Parallels Presence Builder was upgraded to version 11.5.8. In this version, the following issues were fixed:
 

[-] There were a number of localization issues with the French and German versions of predefined website topics.

[-] In some cases, the design of published websites differed from what users saw in the Presence Builder editor.

[-] No vertical scrollbar was shown when users opened published sites in the Opera browser.

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50 queries. 8.75 mb Memory usage. 0.626 seconds.