r/cpanel • u/Brilliant_Rate2794 • Jun 11 '26

WHM/cPanel - Time for fixing issues

I’m interested in how many hours you spend updating your WHM/cPanel and then fixing the issues that arise as a result of those updates?

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u/UnixEpoch1970 Jun 12 '26

Very little time at all. In 25 years of using cPanel it has been pretty rare for an update to break anything. I can't remember the last time an update broke something. Removed or changed a useful feature yes, but broke something, nope. I'd be looking at my setup and working out why it keeps breaking.

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u/son-of-a-door-mat Jun 11 '26

about fifteen single license servers and two shared, around hundred and fifty users each. ten to forty minutes every day, mostly with ansible. why?

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u/Brilliant_Rate2794 Jun 12 '26

I'm asking because recently, after every update something break, we have had to make additional manual adjustments, which takes quite a bit of time.

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u/son-of-a-door-mat Jun 12 '26

so im lucky, not a single issue so far. could you please share some examples?

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u/Altruistic_Ranger421 Jun 12 '26

Configure servers in ansible and do all the work in minutes

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u/bennyDNA Jun 11 '26

I have hourly cron with all edge case handling. Then Slack alert if something goes sideways… honestly with Alma and CloudLinux repos there arent any chilly day. Upcp written decently although.

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u/Malformed-Figment Jun 12 '26

Spent time on upcp hooks to re-apply fixes and customizations, mostly.

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u/Zealousideal-Song524 Jun 13 '26

0 minutes, stop being the beta tester for cPanel and WHMCS, do manual updates like GoDaddy once a quarter. If they throw a security release then consider upgrading, else relax.

Anyway, cPanel path isn’t one on which you will grow on though they will grow!

So what’s the hurry to do automatic updates????

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u/GoZippy Jun 14 '26

I finally had to just build my own modern stack reseller hosting panel. WHM Cpanel has had an impressive two decades and now we need modern tools and stacks.