Comments on: Go PHP5 (alternate title: cPanel Sucks)

By: Milly

Milly — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 12:12:36 +0000

CPanel SUCKS entirely!!!

I have been trying to COMPLAIN to somebody – I constantly complain to Hostgator – and I cannot get through to CPanel to even complain. The forum is monitored & won’t let me on anyway, they wont let me send a support ticket. It’s like a MONOPOLIST that WONT LISTEN TO ITS CUSTOMERS.

I cannot believe that ANY business would use the cpanel email interfaces which are clearly FROM LAST CENTURY. Even free emails like Hotmail & Gmail do it better then that!

Cpanel fails to realise it’s almost Web 3.0, not pre-dotcom bust days. I hate Hostgator for supporting them, almost as much as I hate CPanel.

By: bob

bob — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 09:14:13 +0000

Yea, fully agree.
So what if they have a new cpanel (ensim did the same thing)…the fact is they left old software on for years when much newer and more secure versions are ready.

Hell, php6 is about to come out. So in two years plesk, cpanel and ensim will finally go to php6 when php 8 is available.

Just the inablilty to apply security patches alone is enough to never use this stuff. If you have any real business going on and not just a content site, you need to never use this stuff.

By: Karl Katzke

Karl Katzke — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 17:08:42 +0000

Editor’s Note: This was posted six months ago, at which point cPanel 10 and cPanel 11 Stage 1 were neither publicly released or readily available. My comments about cPanel being a crutch still stand — and a quick perusal of any web hosting forum or cpanel’s own support forums will validate that.

By: David Grega

David Grega — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 19:34:52 +0000

Note that the latest editions of cPanel 11 (available on all build trees except STABLE as of writing) do support Apache 1.3, 2.0 and 2.2 along with concurrent PHP (running PHP 4 and 5 simultaneously). The default version of PHP can be set in WHM (default is 5). Future builds hope to make this control more fine-grained so individual users can have PHP 4 or PHP 5. I know many of our customers have mentioned publicly that they plan on phasing out PHP 4 support before PHP 4 reaches EOL on 8/8/08.

Additionally, backups, statistics generation and similar processes are performed in the background. If they are occupying too much CPU time – perhaps you may wish to only run 1 web stats program instead of 3 based off the preferences of your users/customers.

Many configuration files are now stored in human-readable formats such as YAML. EasyApache 3 is also much better accommodating of manual edits of configuration files than the previous EasyApache 1 (part of cPanel 10 and cPanel 11 Stage 1).

If you want to read more about the new EasyApache and PHP Configuration system, you can read the new documentation at:

http://www.cpanel.net/support/docs/ea/ea3/