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  • AndrewT
    Administrator
    • Mar 2004
    • 3653

    A weekend upgrade might be a possibility for cpanel16, I believe we did do one like this before. Not every server experiences the performance problems during the upgrade to the extent that cpanel16 did, we really don't know how it will go until we actually start it.

    Generally we refrain from weekend upgrades simply because there are customers that don't want to deal with an upgrade on the weekend and/or they are unavailable to make the necessary DNS changes for the upgrade.

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    • Pedja
      Senior Member
      • Mar 2004
      • 329

      Man, Andrew just said that move takes usualy more than whole day, so it is actually not important when it starts, it will hit your clients regardles of their working hours.

      I support doing moves during the weekend. Thats when traffic an most of the sites goes low. I do not think that availability of some "admin" is a problem. If he is serious about his businnes he will spare one weekend to get things done and avoid problems with his clients.

      Personally, I prefer working on weekend over spending two days on phone explaining my customers that move is in progress and that I do not know when it would be finished.

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      • paradiselost
        Member
        • Apr 2004
        • 31

        Timing of Server Changes

        Is there an estimated date for when all of the servers will have moved to the new platform? I'm just trying to gauge when I'll be able to release some new php 5 software I've been writing. I thought that a general end of year date had been mentioned somewhere, but that could just be my wishful thinking since I can't find it anywhere now.

        Thanks,

        James
        --
        ** DEVTRENCH **
        --
        James Ehly

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        • AndrewT
          Administrator
          • Mar 2004
          • 3653

          Sorry, we do not have any final date in mind. We're working on getting all servers upgraded as soon as possible. About half of them are currently upgraded.

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          • scojam
            Junior Member
            • Apr 2004
            • 18

            final date for cpanel16 upgrade?

            So are we still on for starting the upgrade Wednesday AM (EST)? Or did this change to the weekend?
            Scott James
            President
            Computer Consulting Specialists, Inc.
            Linux and Windows, SQL database, programming - Sarasota, FL

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            • AndrewT
              Administrator
              • Mar 2004
              • 3653

              As noted in the e-mail that was sent out and the thread in our announcements forum, cpanel16 will be upgraded beginning on Friday evening.

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              • CasualObserver
                Junior Member
                • Nov 2004
                • 12

                I found it interesting that this time it did not bring cpanel16 to it's knees during the transition to cpanel53. Do you know why it went so much smoother this time and had less of an effect on the original server? Was it related to the RAM upgrade you did earlier in the week or something else?

                Nice smooth transition. Thanks for doing it during off hours.

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                • AndrewT
                  Administrator
                  • Mar 2004
                  • 3653

                  This was due to the RAM upgrade and some configuration changes that we made to take some load off of the disks while transfering accounts.

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                  • McClane
                    Junior Member
                    • Dec 2006
                    • 3

                    cPanel 05 Upgrade

                    What was the whole point of moving accounts from cPanel 05 to 57? I logged into my CPanel and didn't really see any changes.

                    The biggest change I was hoping to see was upgrading to Apache 2.x. This server is still using Apache 1.3.37. 2.x has been released for almost three years.

                    Does Dathorn intend to get stuck on 1.3x forever? 2.x is stable. Upgrading to the latest Apache released version is LONG PAST DUE! There are speed, features and performance improvements we are not seeing because of we're stuck with 1.3.

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                    • AndrewT
                      Administrator
                      • Mar 2004
                      • 3653

                      It's mostly a hardware upgrade. We have no immediate plans to upgrade to Apache 2 at this moment in time, it still is not being widely used with cPanel/WHM and there really isn't much difference from a reseller standpoint.

                      However, PHP5 is available on the new server and it uses a newer version of our backup system.

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                      • McClane
                        Junior Member
                        • Dec 2006
                        • 3

                        How do I choose the PHP 5 option? Currently my cPanel shows it's still 4.4.4.

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                        • AndrewT
                          Administrator
                          • Mar 2004
                          • 3653

                          Please see http://forums.dathorn.com/showthread.php?t=2385

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                          • skeinath
                            Junior Member
                            • Aug 2006
                            • 3

                            image upload and resize script FAILS now

                            I have simple image resizing and uploading script that no longer works because of the switch!!! I am also sending a help ticket.

                            PHP Code:
                                        // resize image and upload --------------------------------------------------------------------------
                            $ext strtolower($ext);
                                        
                            $newname $show;
                                        
                            $tmpimg $newname;
                                        
                            $imgfile $_FILES['userphoto']['tmp_name'];
                                        
                                        
                                            
                            /*== only resize if the image is larger than 640 px ==*/
                                            
                            $imgsize GetImageSize($imgfile);
                                        
                                            
                            /*== check size  0=width, 1=height ==*/
                                            
                            if (($imgsize[0] > 10) || ($imgsize[1] > 10)) 
                                            {

                                                
                            /*== RESIZE PROCESS
                                                     1. decompress jpeg image to pnm file (a raw image type) 
                                                     2. scale pnm image
                                                     3. compress pnm file to jpeg image
                                                ==*/
                                                
                                                /*== Step 1: djpeg decompresses jpeg to pnm ==*/
                                                
                            system("djpeg $imgfile >$tmpimg");
                                                
                                        
                                                
                            /*== Steps 2&3: scale image using pnmscale and then
                                                     pipe into cjpeg to output jpeg file ==*/
                                                
                            system("pnmscale -xy 150 150 $tmpimg | cjpeg -smoo 10 -qual 80 >$imgfile");
                                        
                                                
                            /*== remove temp image ==*/
                                                
                            unlink($tmpimg);
                                        
                                            }}
                                        
                                            
                            /*== setup final file location and name ==*/
                                            /*== change spaces to underscores in filename  ==*/
                                            //$final_filename = str_replace(" ", "_", $imgfile_name);
                                            
                            $newfile $uploaddir "/$newname".$ext;
                                            
                                            
                            /*== do extra security check to prevent malicious abuse==*/
                                            
                            if (is_uploaded_file($imgfile))
                                            {
                                        
                                               
                            /*== move file to proper directory ==*/
                                               
                            if (!copy($imgfile,"$newfile")) 
                                               {
                                                  
                            /*== if an error occurs the file could not
                                                       be written, read or possibly does not exist ==*/
                                                  
                            print "Error Uploading File.";
                                                  exit();
                                               }
                                        
                            // ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
                            thanks,
                            Steve

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                            • AndrewT
                              Administrator
                              • Mar 2004
                              • 3653

                              As per the ticket, this was due to NetPBM not being installed on the server, now it is installed.

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                              • DaCurryman
                                Member
                                • Mar 2004
                                • 34

                                Andrew, I just got the e-mail so I'm glad it's time for cpanel09b to make the move this weekend. Just sux that I'm gonna be in Vegas (NBA All-Star Weekend) during the move, so I'll have to shut everything earlier...oh well.

                                Anyways, my question is regarding Fantastico De Lux and Template Express. When I look at the Fantastico site, it shows as Soholaunch Pro being available as part of it but that a server-wide or domain based Soholaunch Pro license is required. Is this something that Dathorn will have or when you say we'll have Template Express, that will be in lieu of Soholaunch Pro?

                                I ask because it looks like Soholaunch Pro is more versatile and robust than Template Express. Thanks in advance.

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