I was rather cowardly and hung back from upgrading from 64.0.36 until I had seen what other users were experiencing and reporting on these forums (I was taught to be cautious). Using a Cloudlinux kernel and kernelcare, I was relieved to see the inclusion of "CPANEL-15405: Don't instruct users to reboot when they're running a custom kernel." in build 17 - so I poured a large whiskey and got down to it.
The server I updated was a dedicated 8 core server with 8GB ram and mirrored raid 1GB drives plus an extra (normally)unmounted 1GB drive for backups.
Before I started, I cleared down the cPHulk Blocks and cleared the associated reports to reduce the conversion overhead of the SQLite conversion process.
I logged out of WHM and logged into a shell and ran the upcp script from there - it ran perfectly and when it was finished, I rebooted the server.
Whilst the server was rebooting, I ensured that I had cleared down all the browser cache relating to WHM (Firefox 52.3.0 ESR on a Centos6 KDE desktop) and then logged into WHM.
I accepted all the new features with the exception of the changes relating to the '.htaccess search optimization' which I disabled.
Everything seems to be working perfectly. All the hosted websites are still working as expected, and the new WHM interface is a joy to work with.
The instructions for the removal of the redundant cphulkd database were perfect, and the database was successfully deleted.
All in all, an extremely gratifying experience - a huge thank you to all the Teams and Team Members that made this possible, and who have obviously all worked extremely hard to achieve another excellent release.
OK, I know you are all waiting for the "but" so here it is : the only things I can find (so far) that needs attention are:
1) The strange instructions to "Press ` (backtick/grave) to expand or collapse the navigation menu." - have you forgotten that not everyone in the world uses a US keyboard? There is no way my Spanish keyboard can make this work, although it does of course work from an US virtual on-screen keyboard.
2) The (still broken from way back) Find a “Perl Module" search facility.
3) And it still wont make me coffee
The server I updated was a dedicated 8 core server with 8GB ram and mirrored raid 1GB drives plus an extra (normally)unmounted 1GB drive for backups.
Before I started, I cleared down the cPHulk Blocks and cleared the associated reports to reduce the conversion overhead of the SQLite conversion process.
I logged out of WHM and logged into a shell and ran the upcp script from there - it ran perfectly and when it was finished, I rebooted the server.
Whilst the server was rebooting, I ensured that I had cleared down all the browser cache relating to WHM (Firefox 52.3.0 ESR on a Centos6 KDE desktop) and then logged into WHM.
I accepted all the new features with the exception of the changes relating to the '.htaccess search optimization' which I disabled.
Everything seems to be working perfectly. All the hosted websites are still working as expected, and the new WHM interface is a joy to work with.
The instructions for the removal of the redundant cphulkd database were perfect, and the database was successfully deleted.
All in all, an extremely gratifying experience - a huge thank you to all the Teams and Team Members that made this possible, and who have obviously all worked extremely hard to achieve another excellent release.
OK, I know you are all waiting for the "but" so here it is : the only things I can find (so far) that needs attention are:
1) The strange instructions to "Press ` (backtick/grave) to expand or collapse the navigation menu." - have you forgotten that not everyone in the world uses a US keyboard? There is no way my Spanish keyboard can make this work, although it does of course work from an US virtual on-screen keyboard.
2) The (still broken from way back) Find a “Perl Module" search facility.
3) And it still wont make me coffee
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