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Originally Posted by raymor
Knowing the CPanel code from having fixed various bugs in CPanel and also having many years of experience with DirectAdmin, I would not choose CPanel based on security. Sure, it's better than Plesk, but ANYTHING is way better than Plesk, security wise. I'm really surprised they haven't been hit with.a class action suit because Plesk is comp sci malpractice. You may recall I issued Plesk a cease and desist, demanding that they stop distributing Apache because they couldn't even manage to do so legally, never mind competently.
CPanel is user friendly, so is DirectAdmin. CPanel is feature rich. I'd definitely lock any control panel down to certain IPs if you give a damn about security, though. CPanel has several programmers on staff - cheap ones.
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Have you ever hacked a cpanel server or seen one hacked from something cpanel provided? Excluded third party scripts of course. I would like to know how you did this or how it was done, I am sure they would too! I have met them all and they are in the silly smart category, I mean they take care of business SMART.
One big thing besides the nightly security checks and updates is it scans for old scripts and tells the server admin that the script needs to be updated if it's old or insecure. Pretty sweet!
Mainly it helps newbies keep their sites safe and simple, this means most people don't need a webmaster that can turn on them like I have seen many times. That alone is a some real security not having to trust some webmaster to do all your tasks and even more knowing your host doesn't give your root access out to all of it's techs. We have seen entire hosts go down from bad techs fed up with a company and lashing out.
Our root passwords are kept offline and only our head tech has access. That way there is only one person in charge of this important information.