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We would like to thank everyone who tested cPanel Server Suite for their efforts and candid evaluations so far.

Based on the feedback received from our first round of beta testing, we have decided to make some major changes to select areas of cPanel Server Suite. While these changes will push back further beta testing, they will not change the overall supported architecture that is described on our site. We look forward to moving along with the changes and will notify the next beta group when the changes are available for testing.

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Over the upcoming months, we will be modifying many of our customer oriented systems and combining them into the cPanel Customer Portal. The first system to take part in this process is our customer contact system (support, billing and sales requests). Options are now much better organized, easier to find, and much more pleasant to look at. You can open new support requests, contact billing and sales, as well as review past support requests. We have also added a new Priority Support Bundle option to the cPanel Store. This allows purchase of bundles of 10 priority support incidents or one year, which ever comes first. Priority Support is already provided to our direct license holders but this new option will allow cPanel license holders to access priority support even if they have not purchased a license directly from us.

If you have any questions, comments, or run into any problems, no matter how small, do not hesitate to contact sales@cpanel.net.

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We’ve been hard at work updating the interface for our easyapache apache update utility suite. The interface in WHM is much more streamlined and intuitive then it was previously. If you need to make changes to your Apache configuration, give the new easyapache a try. It’s currently available in all builds of cPanel with the exception of STABLE.

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The following operating systems are reaching EOL with their respective vendors. While cPanel will continue to support these operating systems, we recommend that customers using these OSes check for an upgrade path with the respective operating system vendor:

SuSE 9.0

Mandriva 7.2, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 9.0, 9.1, 9.2

FreeBSD 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6, 4.8, 4.10, 5.0, 5.3, 5.4

Keeping your operating system up to date will ensure that you will receive the latest security and system patches from the OS vendor. Operating systems at EOL may not receive any updates, even security updates.

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• We’ve added support for a few more OS versions. Complete info can be found here:

http://www.cpanel.net/products/cPanelandWHM/linux/sys_requirements.htm

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APF firewall can deny ALL connections for ssh and allow only a single or select few of IPs to connect to your server. We’ll guide you through DENY ALL with APF firewall.

PROBLEM:
You want to deny all IPs to connect to shell/ssh on you server but only allow a select one or few to connect with APF firewall.

APF SOLUTION:
1) Login to your server as the root user.

2) cd /etc/apf

3) Use vi or nano to edit the /etc/apf/allow_hosts.rules file
EG: vi /etc/apf/allow_hosts.rules

4) Scroll down until after their last comment with the ##

Add the following in:

tcp:in:d=22:s=YOURHOMEIPHERE
out:d=22:d=YOURHOMEIPHERE

The d=22 part is the port, so you can repeat for other services as well to limit connections if you like.

Save the changes.

5) Edit the /etc/apf/deny_hosts.rules file
EG: vi /etc/apf/deny_hosts.rules

Scroll down until the last default comment ## then below it add the following:

tcp:in:d=22:s=0/0
out:d=22:d=0/0

Save the changes.

6) Restart APF firewall
apf -r

Your server is now only allowing connections to the SSH service from one IP using APF. To add more than one IP repeat the steps in 4) adding a new tcp and out line for each IP.

Cheers

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You can use a group policy to protect your server from known viruses that require an executable to run. For example, Sobig.F and Blaster are two fine examples.Go to Run > Type MMC to open the Microsoft Management Console.

Select File > Add/Remove Snap-in > Add > Group Policy Object Editior

Allow it to modify the Local Computer in the wizard. Close > OK

Navigate to Local Computer Policy > User Configuration > Administrative Templates > System Click on Systems on the left hand pane. You should get some choices in the right hand pane.

Select Don’t Run Specified Windows Applications.

Select Enable and then Show > Add

Add any applications you want to restrict. Blaster and Sobig.F are

WINPPR32.EXE
MSBLASTER.EXE

Click OK and close out of the MMC. You are now protected.

This is no substitute for AV Protection and a Firewall. This is just another layer of protection.

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