solid features cooking for 10.5 & 10.6

Need to see control panel replication this month. 😃

  • mike replied to this.

    According to the information I have obtained, it's during the week.

      bgeek 10.6 maybe will focus on email as i read a couple of threads that email will receive big updates soon. Thats as good as cp replication.

      Really good stuff requested by the community should be coming the next 2 months.

      I was waiting for adding aliases from 2022 😁

        10.6 or 11, I am waiting for control panel replication and email issues fix.

        Panel Replication and Persistent OLS are my most needed features.

          a lot of people waiting for cp replication. what are the use cases ? migrate to another provider ? we work with oracle cloud. if we need to replicate the cp to another server or location its doable. i can just replicate in realtime the storage or spin an instance via a snapshot to anywhere attach an ip and its done.

          are there any use cases i am not thinking of ?

            mike It's some kind of disaster recovery function for the control panel. Disaster means, you are facing some worst situations by which you can't expect your current service provider can help you bring back your CP in a few minutes.

              mike I installed my CP on a dedicated intel system, but the complexity of the backups, means I wish I'd put the CP on a VPS with simple backup + snapshot capabilities instead. I'd rather not P2V or mix arch when switching up hardware and cloning an image. Being the core part of my business I'd rather not F.... it up even if I do know how to do it 🙂

              Likewise with another estate I manage I need to move the CP from it's current provider, I could make an image of the VM and move it to a proxmox box to be rebuilt, but I also risk messing everything up and taking out the estate.

              Since it was supposed to be coming awhile back now. I'd been waiting it out instead of risking it. 😏 When it comes to production a cleaner solution is best.

              Like @bgeek said, it also gives a bit more DR to the entire estate and little more flexibility for how your estate grows.

                @Rich so if something happens at the provider level. you should have a backup of the cp so you can restore it to another server somehow like websites currently ....

                i wonder how this feature would be implemented 🤔

                  mike That is what the control panel replication will do. And that is why many of us are expecting it badly. 😃

                      bgeek i wonder how the new ip mappings will be done. how will the other servers know what the cp ip is ... DNS i believe.
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                        I'm also eagerly awaiting Control Panel replication. It will make setting up a new machine and restoring data a breeze, which is a huge convenience. But guys, brace yourselves, the roadmap indicates that Control Panel replication will probably only come out version 10.6.

                        • Rich replied to this.

                          mike Right now the best way to manage this is to use Borgbackup or something similar like Restic, that can make a true byte level backup of the data, without having to shutdown the system and make a traditional image. That backup can then be stored wherever you wish, another country, another provider etc... The problem is it's complicated and manual setup. Which isn't as easy to manage.

                          The CP replication will allow for failover to another server already in the cluster and likely with a different provider and /or certainly in a completely different DC. Super useful if your growing your estate or find a crap provider and need to move.

                          Currently the CP can be moved, once you've moved it and start it up with it's new IP, it will ASSUME that IP and then talk to all nodes as that IP (from what I've learnt) But if you move a server over to another box and bring it up to TEST, you'll inadvertently send that signal out, even if the image has a bad issues and is no good. So for now I don't trust this process to be straightforward, it's doable at best if needed.

                          Likewise in the event of complete DR, the CP database is backed up as well by enhance backups, enhance could help. But that's no DR at all and very bad business practise and if your estate was massive, well I dread to think how long it would take to manually recover.

                          DracoBlue Yeah I am figuring it will be at least a few more months. I remain optimistic.

                              Hi All,

                              We are just finishing up some testing with the aim of releasing 10.5 this week. As always the release has a lot of bug fixes and enhancements. In terms of what 'New' features you can expect to see:

                              • During a cPanel/Plesk website import an MO can specify which servers to place the roles on.
                              • V1 PHP extension manager per website.
                              • Roundcube auto updates for central webmail.
                              • Ability to clone a website across subscriptions.

                              Control panel replication, staging functionality and email improvements are currently being worked on - At the moment, I can't accurately share what release they will be in. When I know more I will share an update in this and the specific feature threads.

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