So, what does this mean?

I cannot access my cpanel, my hosting company says they are waiting for the cpanel server to come online, what does this mean exactly?

Did my hosting company forget to renew their license? Is there something wrong with the cpanel.net website so that I cannot access my cpanel?

Is it only me, or is the whole world affected?

Curious, I am.

-t

This applies to all servers on VDI's network, there is an outage right now, no eta of the fix

Actually, the servers do not need to be on VDI's network. Only the license server is there so it affects all servers outside or inside the VDI network.

So I take it architecturally cpanel needs to go back to a license server and validate that the current running version of the software is OK in real time. Sounds like a fairly nasty design feature to me.

For those of you looking to develop competitive alternatives to cpanel, I would consider alternatives to this approach. Having your server distribute a license pak to the customer that could be referred to when the server is unavailable would be a nice addition.

You could always encrypt and individualize these paks so they only ran where and when the software was licensed. If the license server is down, it would only break if the local pak had expired.

-t

Yes this is a good example of what NOT to do when designing a control panel.

From the looks of things, VDI tried to mess with the license server and convert all the cpanels to the VDI version.
VDI changed the DNS for the CPanel authentication and license server...in an attempt to make it that only VDI based licenses were valid.
They ended up just screwing up the licenses for clients...
ie...it backfired completely and the clients suffered because of it.

The DarkOrb version now has it's own license server, so VDI can do what it wants with their own licensing....they are free to screw up their own version as they deem fit.

Sean R.
BurstNET

This is ridiculous. I went with a host that's outside the VDI NOC and on top of paying an additional amount of money for the WHM and CPanel, I still have to "host" the license with VDI?

So, new sign-ups during this "down time" are literally screwed unless I telnet into the box and create each account from scratch?

That really sucks!

:angry:

Where is the DarkOrb license server located now...still at VDI? Or is it at Burst now. Will VDI be able to do something like this again?