News
Open LiteSpeed Update
OpenLiteSpeed v1.6.6 In this release: WebAdmin security update, bug fixes, and more! RELEASE LOG:[Security] Update WebAdmin Console to avoid serving PHP files not belonging to it.[New Feature] Skip rewrite processing for Let's encrypt verification requests.[New Feature] Add "Subject Alternative ...
Service Rebooted
the server did not get it's diskspaced returned on data migration. rebooting to rectify issue,
LiteSpeed Cache Move Completed
This work has been completed and all web services are runnning again!
Moving LiteSpeed Cache Data to it's own disks (Small Outage)
@12:00 approx there will be a small outtage whilst LiteSpeed cache data is moved it it's own disk's
PHP 7.4 Now available
We know that you like to be able to try the bleeding edge! We've released PHP 7.4 in our PHP Selector. We'd recommend you try your sites out, to see whether they work in 7.4, but don't put production sites in PHP 4 until php.net annouce that it's safe to do so!
CSF - Resellers now have unblock privileges.
If a customer IP is blocked, a reseller can now unblock it themselves in the DirectAdmin @ Reseller Level. At this time, we have no plans to allow resellers to block IPs using CSF, however, they can do that in their .htaccess files.
Better Visitor Statistics
We have introduced AWStats alongside Webalizer Stats. AWStats has been configured to remove our StatusCake monitoring from reported stats and show robot visits separate from "Real" visitors. It also shows "Unique Visitors", which is the defacto metric that customers are after,
Software Update
LetsEncrypt Engine Updated to 1.1.34 OpenLiteSpeed Updated to 1.6.2 DirectAdmin Updated to 1.594
Software Update
native ioncube loaders have been updated to 10.3.9
Status Cake Alerting Refactored
We have refactored our StatusCake monitoring to do the following. Domains start to be monitored when their URL resolves to an IP address located on our servers. Domain cease to be monitored when their URL resolved to an IP address not located on our servers. Each Reseller and Each user has ...
TLS 1.1 Retired
We've switched off TLS 1.1 TLS 1.0 has been switched off for a while, along with SSL v2 and SSL v3
Software Updates
DirectAdmin updated from 1.59.0 to 1.59.1 LetEncrypt updated from 1.1.28 to 1.1.30 cPanel to DirectAdmin conversion script updated from 0.0.35 to 0.0.36 Comodo ModSecurity Rule set updated from 1.221 to 1.222
Control Panel Overhaul
We've switched to the evolution control panel throughout our servers and find it offers all of the features in a better layout than the Darwin or Cyberpanel theme did. We've now removed both Darwin and Cyberpanel from our options. Demo the evolution theme https://demo.unixguru.co.uk Username: ...
New Domain Prices
Please note we have changed our domain pricing. Somethings are more expensive and some things are significantly cheaper. Coming soon!! Our Domain reseller program will see super cheap domains available to pre-paid customers.
phpMyAdmin access using Single Sign On
At last DirectAdmin has added the ability to connect to your MySQL databases using phpMyAdmin, without you having to provide login credentials when you access it from the control panel. This only works, if you envoke the phpMyAdmin from inside the "MySQL Management | View Database" ...
Control Panel is now SNI enabled
Historically, when you tried to use the control panel using https://your-domain.com:2222 it would have redirected to http://our-server.whitelabeldomain.com:2222 Now it will only do the redirect if your domain does not have a LetsEncrypt SSL certificate, which is available for free!
Anti-DDoS Protection increased
Our DC has increased DDoS protection from 450Gbps to 10Tbps, which is great news. If a customers IP gets DDoS'd that IP will automatically go into mitigation and be defended.
Bandwidth Increases
We have increased the bandwidth per account to 2TB per CPU.