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cPanel Servers Rant

Almost every day I’m fixing something on a cPanel server, no direct correlation towards the folks at cPanel themselves absolute terrific software, it’s the people that set out and say yes, I will buy this and use it for that, I will not read the manual, I will instead pay someone else to worry about it when “that” breaks.

First of all, the question should be asked: what do you hope to gain from this.

Renting a server running cPanel is simply not a “set and forget” type of handler; it does, much like almost anything else in this industry, have its complexities. Unless you are (or have) an experienced systems admin on hand to fine-tune it, stop it. Just stop.

The amount of work you create for people boggles the mind when something breaks, you whine and complain on forums, create support tickets clogging up helpdesks, submit bug requests bothering the authors with already documented issues.

If you don’t know what you’re doing, then stop doing it and learn first. Use a staging environment WELL away from anyone you could hurt and stop annoying the internet.