New features, or rather their lack.

cPFence

Development has definitely slowed down significantly lately, no doubt about that. It’s a real issue for those waiting on specific features like Node.js. Luckily for us, we didn’t switch to Enhance until all the main features we needed were already in place.

Zoinkies

V12 backups are very stable and working well — we've been using them heavily in production across several clusters with large sites and frequent restorations, and they've never let us down. Most issues we’ve seen come from using the outdated S3 backup system instead of incremental backups, non-standard setups Enhance wasn’t fully tested on, and / or low-quality VPS/server providers. Once those are addressed, everything works as expected.

MediaServe

Moving backups can cause all sorts of issues when handling large amounts of data, and you’ll most likely end up with broken backups. Remove the backup role, then start fresh with a good Ext4 box and save yourself the hassle.

Kosta

Hopefully we start getting more features released once this archive backups gets finished

skewis

I’m currently in the process of purchasing another hosting provider and we already have a few hundred clients. But because of these reasons, we are not migrating anything from DirectAdmin

sikmo

To be honest, we had many issues with v11. Everytime we installed web server or database it would fail. Also backups were issue. And many other things.

I am really happy with v12. Except few issues here and there, everything runs fine and support is responding quickly and helps a ton. Currently we k ow of 1 bug with backups and memory, which should be fixed in near future.

For me, I would appreciate more API endpoints and more information about status of things (e.g. that backup is being created).

That said, I need to point out that we've build our own admin panel on top of enhance since we missed package upgrades (we have package for every hosting plan), bunny dns, export backups, better impersonation,real time per webapp RAM and CPU monitoring and couple others. And works like a charm. We switched from RunCloud and I do not regret it.

slimx

Vendoz V12 is light years ahead of V11 and everything works perfectly. I can't complain about the product objectively, but regarding updates and bug fixes, I completely agree with the sentiment, and honestly, I don't even understand it.

Light years? lol Come on.
It was just re-built smarter.

JohnB 100%. Backups literally never failed. Never. Now its fairly frequent.
I am in the same boat.

V11 never had an issue with backups S3 and local.
V12 was a nightmare in the beginning and now it's just a lot of small failures.

8Dweb
Too much time off can also hurt, lose momentum.

sikmo That said, I need to point out that we've build our own admin panel on top of enhance since we missed package upgrades (we have package for every hosting plan), bunny dns, export backups, better impersonation,real time per webapp RAM and CPU monitoring and couple others. And works like a charm. We switched from RunCloud and I do not regret it.
Talk about holding out - share - why arent u reselling! lol

DracoBlue
I literally came on to the community forums today to make a post like this. I am glad to not be alone.

Shaijee

@DracoBlue You are not overreacting; you pointed out the actual fact.

Vendoz

V12 is light years ahead of V11 and everything works perfectly. I can't complain about the product objectively, but regarding updates and bug fixes, I completely agree with the sentiment, and honestly, I don't even understand it.

They have a product that works, with excellent pricing. Why not push it just enough to have a "slightly more complete" product and then slow down feature development to try to cash in and monetize their investment? I would understand it more.

I believe that a few months of "intensive development" would give the product a nice boost, between fixes and features, and I don't understand why they don't ride the wave of their product, which, in my opinion, is still a winner. The risk of not "pushing now" is only to get bad advertise, lose customers or lose opportunities.

But that's my poor opinion.

mike

@DracoBlue 👍👍

I’d really like to hear Adam’s say on this. Is the delay due to technical challenges, business priorities, or perhaps a major feature that hasn’t been shared on the roadmap? who the hell knows.

Meanwhile Joomla is included on the roadmap even though Node is significantly more popular here. I understand not all users are on the forum .. but hell dev time for joomla and not node .. weird.

cPFence

mike but hell dev time for joomla and not node .. weird.

Not really weird when you look at it from a hosting panel perspective. Joomla still has a much bigger presence among traditional hosting clients, even if it's quiet around here. It just happens that Node.js users are more vocal on the forums, while the broader user base isn’t asking for it because they don’t use it.

That said, to our knowledge Enhance is the only control panel with no Node.js support, so this really needs to be tackled soon. It’s great to be the only panel offering true multi-server features in the market, but that shouldn’t come at the cost of leaving out a growing segment of developers.

8Dweb

I suppose it is heresy to state that maybe the Enhance team does indeed need some time-off every now and again.... :

mike

cPFence where did joomla pop out from? I certainly did not see it from previous roadmaps scheduled this soon. Is it requests from tickets ? Does it depend on who is asking for it ? Is it easy to implement so yeah we will include it? Some feature requests here exist for years that are more important. And based on the slow rate of features this will definitely consume dev time and push other updates further.

I have no issue with a joomla installer the more the merrier. But it seems dev time is very limited.

blestaclub

Joomla and other auto installers is probably a request from larger hosts, Which won't spend their time on a community forum would be my guess if I'm honest!

JohnB

Zoinkies 100%. Backups literally never failed. Never. Now its fairly frequent.

XN-Matt

JohnB Yup with zero feedback as to why. It's a mission to go and discover it.

Kosta

mike I was screaming pretty much for joomla and other auto installs.
Could be my fault 😂

cPFence

mike Is it requests from tickets ? Does it depend on who is asking for it ?

Maybe, yes - we all listen to enterprise feature requests, who doesn’t?

We regularly scan new panels like Webuzo and spanel, and Enhance is definitely one of the most feature-rich out there with a bunch of unique features you won’t find elsewhere. That said, some basics like Node.js, catch-all email, and better logging are still missing. Hopefully they’ll close that gap soon.

mike

Kosta I was screaming pretty much for joomla and other auto installs.

its you then 💀

blestaclub

cPFence Oh yeah, Catch-all email would be nice!

mike

@Kosta

do you have still have customers using Joomla? honestly we had 1 customer using Joomla version 3. then he got his site rebuilt with something else.

with all these frameworks and ai shit every other day someone pops with a new shit we never heard of that needs support. but certainly not Joomla 😃

Kosta

mike no customers ain’t even started. But. I have 2 clusters with few websites. So yes I have 2 websites on joomla 5 and 6.
I am from young with joomla. I can even edit the code of joomla but on WP I am like not even able to add a menu 😂

slimx

Joomla i think is quite respectable, I have about 5 clients running them.
It's not... the fact that they put Joomla.
It's the fact that adding an auto-installer was prioritised over FIXES and overall improvements that are just base features for most panels.

Backups... still being as horrible as it is with zero customizability is just weird.

blestaclub

slimx They don't list fixes in the roadmap though so that's worth noting

thekendog

It's getting rather frustrating to see basic backup features take a backseat to other obscure things. PHP 5 support got put ahead of being able to see and delete backups of deleted sites. Now, freaking Joomla gets put ahead of being able to exclude directories and sites from backups. SMH.