cpanel overwrites files, very very bad

Hello.

Cpanel has been overwriting system files, and it's been a minor inconvenience until now.

the hosts file, my exim.conf file and the /etc/init.d/exim file are all overwritten on a seemingly random basis (other files I'm sure too) and today my exim.conf was wiped which caused major downtime.

Well, I'm sick of this game now and I would like for cpanel to never overwrite another file again in this way again ever for ever. I have no use for this feature--and it's costing me a lot of money every time our server goes. It costs me a lot of bandwidth every time my hosts file is changed so as not to use private network ips, and it costs me a lot of time to have to keep changing these files back.

If this feature can not be turned off, what are the risks if any to my system of uninstalling cpanel?

 

This is our hosts file

Code:

127.0.0.1               localhost localhost.localdomain storm
127.0.0.1               ourdotcom.com
127.0.0.1               ourhostname

To answer your question, yes, we change the hosts file very periodically. There are other entries that I did not include, it is usually just loopback ips that cause problems, however sometimes private ips get changed to public ones too.

And it is periodically changed so that the ourdotcom.com and ourhostname no longer point to loopback.

/etc/init.d/exim was modified so that queue runners would run more frequently than once an hour. That also gets reverted.

And I could have sworn I had already taken the appropriate measure to ensure /etc/exim.conf would not be overwritten, I added it to /etc/cpanelsync.exclude. This seemed to work well for about 2 weeks. And today I was started to find out that my email server had been running all day, doing no work whatsoever because /etc/exim.conf was overwritten.

I do not want to prevent cpanel from being able to write to the filesystem, indeed the interface is useful for [some] things, but I never want to see a surprise rewrite again, not even if cpanel does it for my "benefit." It does not benefit me at all to have any files overwritten unless I explicitly asked for it.