CPanel's IPv6 Overhaul

https://blog.apnic.net/2025/05/21/cpanels-ipv6-overhaul/

by ggm • 1 year ago

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johng• 1 year ago

Upvoted, this seems like a pretty big deal.

rurban• 1 year ago

I think I've worked on that initial 2013 support within cPanel but didnt understand the final blockers. We didn't have a partner then to test it out. Great to have that fixed finally!

afcool832• 1 year ago

Internally, product leadership at the time had a quandary when it came to IPv6: there was lots of expressed demand for it due to IPv4 depletion looming and “World IPv6 Day/Launch” only about a year or two prior…

…but then, upon delivery, there was nothing. No customer appeared to adopt it even in its rudimentary form. Radio silence. The horsetrading of IPv4 addresses continued and we heard nothing about attempts at adoption for a very very long time.

It got filed away as a feature delivered to calm nerves about lacking that feature…not one that actually provided any forward value. How many other features did we ship that’s soul reason for existing was because lacking it caused discomfort, not because it genuinely helped?

devilbunny• 1 year ago

And my residential ISP doesn’t even offer IPv6. Can’t use it even if I want to without someone else’s gateway.

TheNewsIsHere• 1 year ago

My ISP makes it available but only if you use their CPE as your router and AP. Which for many, many reasons I will never do.

sparky_• 1 year ago

I had a lot of love for cPanel back in the 2000s, when the days of shared hosting and self-installed PHP scripts were in their heyday. Nowadays, though, isn't this just a relic of an earlier time? Who/why would use it for anything today, versus deploying on some PaaS, or Lambda, or.. what have you? Particularly at the prices they're charging.

indigodaddy• 1 year ago

Shared hosting is still in huge demand and extensively used.

afcool832• 1 year ago

Can confirm. It’s a bit stealth but, by volume, it’s still a cracking business. It doesn’t get the headlines because it’s so so democratized.

Saris• 1 year ago

Shared hosting with PHP is still incredibly common, and easy to use.

CPanel's IPv6 Overhaul

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