We don’t normally share these, but there are some new features we thought ya’ll might like to know about in Cpanel, and we didn’t feel like re-writing it.

Several important changes pertaining to mail handling and usage are available in 11.23. cPanel 11.23 introduces full support for the Roundcube (http://roundcube.net) webmail interface. This provides a nice modern alternative for webmail users. Also, it is now possible to have Exim send mail using the IP address dedicated to an account. This not only brings in a much requested feature, but also resolves issues with using SPF records on accounts with dedicated IP addresses. We have also introduced a SPF preference in the Exim Configuration editor to enable SPF checking at SMTP time. Running SPF checks at SMTP time, rather than during SpamAssassin greatly speeds up the mail delivery process on your server.

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In order to meet the needs of users on corporate proxies who cannot access cPanel, Webmail and WHM on the regular ports, a proxy system has been introduced to cPanel 11.23 which allows access to each service through a subdomain. For example, a user can now access cPanel at http://cpanel.example.com instead of https://example.com:2083/.

Additionally, a mechanism has been built into cPanel to notify users of SSL certificates which will expire soon. As it is highly important to ensure your SSL certificates are functioning properly, users will be alerted 30 days before their certificate is due to expire so they have ample time to renew their certificate.

Along with these changes, many products such as PHPMyAdmin which are shipped with cPanel have been upgraded to newer and far more responsive versions in order to improve the domain owner experience.

TL;DR version:
We’ll be adding RoundCube
We’ll be trying out SPF checking
You can now check your webmail and manage your site at work. (Don’t tell your boss!)

We also want to announce that we now offer a monitoring service and DNS Failover services to compliment the new server … um… services that we’re offering. (Ok, that didn’t come out quite as elegant as we would have liked.)

The monitoring service has a wide variety of monitoring frequency and levels, as well as choices to monitor just one or many ports. You can have this added on to your hosting service or you can order it from within the system via PayPal and keep it separate from your hosting account. While primarily meant for those that want a cheaper alternative to paying extra for monitoring by us, it’s also available and welcome to be used by any of our shared hosting clients as well.

Feel free to head over there are try it out for two weeks on us, no charge.

DNS Failover was the answer to one of our clients need for a small, static web site to stay up no matter what - since we now have our fingers in the pies of no less than four data centers, we can offer rundandant switchover in the event of a data center connection issue for mission critical sites that can’t afford more than a 10 second blip to switch. This isn’t recommended for interactive sites that backend to a MySQL database (at least not at its lower cost), though we could provide a clustered, mirrored solution if someone needed to.

In other words, there’s almost nothing we can’t do - but it will depend on what you’re willing to pay as to whether we will do it.

Tags: cPanel release, dns failover, monitoring

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