CentOS 8 has abruptly been shifted to EOL in 2021. Now what?
To start with, I expect that the cPanel folks will not have an immediate, or even within the month, answer -- I imagine you are as caught off-guard as we are -- and part of my motivation to post is warning other cPanel users of this occurrence.
Now that CentOS has revised the EOL date for CentOS 8 back almost eight years, from May 2029 to December 2021, what will the upgrade path be once CentOS 7 goes EOL in 2024?
I'll admit I went with going to CentOS 7 from 6 in November after holding out, since I needed to be production-ready. I wasn't happy about that, but now I feel like I dodged a bullet.
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cPanel used to support other OS's. While we never used anything other than RH/CentOS/CL it was a nightmare for cPanel.
You and I appear to be the only ones that remember this. I know for a fact that cPanel used to support FreeBSD, and I'm almost sure I remember seeing Debian as a supported OS. But, like you say, it was a nightmare and I really think it was a good move for cPanel when they dropped all of that and just supported RHEL/CentOS/CloudLinux. This has been one of my main arguments/concerns about DirectAdmin (I know... this isn't a DirectAdmin forum). So while I agree that trying to support a plethora of Linux distributions and every distribution under the sun is a very bad idea ... maybe now is a time to revisit what distribution you want to focus on. Perhaps cPanel needs to take a look at moving to Debian? Maybe CloudLinux needs to take a look at rebranding under Debian?0 -
Well, it looks like they will have another go at it... [QUOTE] We are accelerating support for cPanel on Ubuntu LTS. The initiative to support cPanel on Ubuntu LTS is underway, and we expect to deliver a production-ready version in late 2021. 0 -
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Anyone currently using CentOS stream? What are your thoughts about it? Is it a viable alternative or are most of you going to waking up new Red Hat instances? 0 -
For a virtualized FreeBSD implementation of cPanel, UFS supports user/group quotas and would be absolutely fine, no?
Yes, that would work.0 -
It's interesting to throw around ideas but with Centos 7 supported until June 2024, CPanel can take their dear sweet time to decide what they are going to do and announce it to the world. Until then, there's really no actionable information in this forum or elsewhere for Sys Admins planning to stay on Cpanel. Whatever they decide I'm sure they will come up with a seamless transition that doesn't force SysAdmins to reinstall a different O/S and Cpanel from scratch and then go through a separate data migration process. The WHM userbase has too high of a percentage of "casual" SysAdmins. Their success of Cpanel/WHM has mainly been from the fact that is plug-n-play not requiring advanced sys admin skills. Cpanel has way too much to lose if they don't think it through well and come up with a plan that makes the transition easy and simple and based on an O/S platform that most people are happy with. But you can't please everyone all the time. 0 -
It's interesting to throw around ideas but with Centos 7 supported until June 2024, CPanel can take their dear sweet time to decide what they are going to do and announce it to the world. Until then, there's really no actionable information in this forum or elsewhere for Sys Admins planning to stay on Cpanel.
I'll somewhat strongly disagree on that (the part where cPanel takes it's sweet time). We're not a huge host, but we're not a one man shop either. Migrating sites from CentOS V6 to Centos V7 and then from CentOS V7 to ??? (technically we run CloudLinux) takes time and planning to execute well. While June of 2024 seems like a long way way, it's not really when you have 10's of thousands of accounts to migrate. We were already planning out CentOS V7 to V8 moves when this all started. We're very happy to see that cPanel quickly announced CloudLinux V8 support, but still not that certain that moving to CloudLinux V8 is going to be a good long term strategy. CloudLinux has been supporting "supported" OS's for years, but they only have 1 month of experience supporting an unsupported OS.0 -
It's worth nothing, as @ffeingol mentioned, we've already made our announcement and plans clear at this point :D 0
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