cPanel Reset Option for End Users

[sajithgsm]

Hi There,

Is it not good to have a cPanel Reset (Set back to default and fresh) option for cPanel End Users?

Then he can always make his cPanel again to a fresh cPanel if he needs to remove everything and start again.

 

[cPRex]

Hey there! For an individual cPanel user, can you let me know the advantage of such a reset function over just deleting the content manually? This question does come up once in a while, but deleting the content and emails is usually all most users need to do to get back to a fresh start.

 

[sajithgsm]

Yes. you are right. But sometimes cpanel will showing Other usages on cPanel > Disk Usage and that can not be removed. so that's why I suggest that option. Some users mistakenly deleted some files and they will get unknown errors sometimes and need to recreate the cpanels again to fix it.

 

[cPRex]

That's a good point - however, depending on where exactly that other usage is, a user may or may not have control over it. For example, if an admin unzipped a backup file in /backup, the files in /backup/date/username/homedir would be owned by the user, but they wouldn't be able to remove those.

 

[AzeDK]

We would like a reset function too, our users are not advanced enough to do it manually, and they often delete the cpanel needed folders, causing extra headache for support.

 

[cPRex]

There is a very old feature request for a reset option, but it only has 11 votes in 8 years:

Reset account

We would really like a function that can terminate and then create the account in one action (reset) account. It should keep dns zone files for the domain

features.cpanel.net

At this point, I'm not aware of any plans to implement that.