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03-23-2012, 06:21 PM #26Disabled
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03-24-2012, 12:07 AM #27Web Hosting Master
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Adding options is fine, turning them on by default is not. I hope they reconsider their stance on this.
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03-24-2012, 12:33 AM #28Web Hosting Master
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Agreed.
They can have options to enable 100 things like this for all I care, but I do not want the files on the server by default, nor do I want them active by default.
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03-24-2012, 12:44 AM #29Web Hosting Master
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Only a complete moron would put a server live without configuring it first, and one of the things you'd do at that stage is turn off the mountain of extraneous junk that any application/control-panel/whatever installs/enables.
"clever" admins will 'rewrite' the optionswith something else and do their own upsellingRob Golding Astutium Ltd - UK based ICANN Accredited Domain Registrar - proud to accept BitCoins
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03-25-2012, 12:23 PM #30Web Hosting Guru
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That is true for new servers that you are preparing to bring live, but cPanel pushes this malware forcefully on live servers.
They won't let you choose not to install it (you can only turn it off, but it will install first on your live servers during a regular cPanel update in the close future). I disabled automatic updates for now on all of my shared hosting cPanel server until this problem solves and I recommend everyone doing so.
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03-25-2012, 12:40 PM #31
They've sold us all out here. Offered as an optional addon and off by default, I have no problem with things like this. Pushed to servers and activated by default during an update, I will do everything within my power to kill it the moment it hits our servers and prevent it's return.
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03-25-2012, 01:21 PM #32Junior Guru
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This is not a good step forward by cPanel and they should be made aware that we don't appreciate doing this. The best thing to do is disable automatic updates and check the changelog before performing an update.
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03-25-2012, 01:53 PM #33Web Hosting Guru
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What amazes me is that there are so many crucial addons for cPanel which we need in daily bases (I personally love Munin, I install it on every of our servers first thing) but we still have to install it to enable it. That is cool, proper way to do things.
This time they sold us out by installing third-party app on our servers without our acceptance.
Plus, there are so many things we need from cPanel and have been requested over and over for years now and never gave them to us, while this malware gets installed no problem whatsoever :@
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03-25-2012, 02:39 PM #34Web Hosting Master
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03-25-2012, 02:51 PM #35Hello World
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03-25-2012, 04:27 PM #36Web Hosting Master
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03-25-2012, 08:46 PM #37Web Hosting Master
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This is so very true and it's surprising the amount of people who just turn on every auto update possible. It's great it keeps software up to date but you get all kinds of surprises in the process. It's pretty easy to be reading the changelog ahead of time, testing then mass deploying to system. For us anyways this is how we treat software updates so there are very few surprises when things hit our production systems.█ Tony B. - Chief Executive Officer
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03-25-2012, 08:51 PM #38Web Hosting Master
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I really hope that someone from cPanel sees this thread. I dont mind the feature being there but not enabeled by default. If they see outrage from their customers, they may choose to not go forward
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03-25-2012, 09:05 PM #39The Linux Specialist
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03-25-2012, 09:09 PM #40
They've seen it on their own forum, and simply don't seem to care. As net said, they've already sealed this deal and we can't convince them to reverse that decision.
If there were other reasonably viable alternatives, I'm sure it wouldn't have been done in this manner. "Over a barrel" is a phrase that comes to mind, as they have a pretty large market share. Disgraceful way to behave.Your one stop shop for decentralization
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03-28-2012, 08:57 PM #41Newbie
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The only reason for them to spend time in implementing Attracta defacto to million of users, is being in financial desperation.
Think about it. This measure may appear to be unfair, but in the end, how many users will end using Attracta? a few thousands, newbie, non-tech guys (take a peek to the big Attracta directory of traffic building, full of dead sites). That is more profitable than increasing the cPanel license fee, thus risking to lose customers.
China only? There are several operators all around the world doing that. In South America is a common practice. The cell phone include several bundled products you can opt to use after paying, or just ignore it and uninstall it.
I know cPanel cannot be compared to a cell phone, but they are applying the same basic marketing idea. The advertiser may be seen by potential users, the operator receive a fee, and users just uninstall the crap. And everybody is happy!
So, my recommendation is: keep cPanel up to date, that is always better than having an old system. You are paying the license, so why not updating. I will study "postupcp" scripting in WHM to write an uninstalling routine after every cpanel update.
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03-28-2012, 09:09 PM #42Web Host Reviewer
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Attracta is worthless.
I tested it out a few months ago, and it was really outdated ideology, as far as I was concerned.
The biggest issue is that you're unable to remove subdomains, change settings, etc.
Attracta auto-fills from cPanel, and it really makes a mess.
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03-28-2012, 10:35 PM #43Newbie
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I know. That's why I think it's a deal targeted to newbie unaware users.
From what I've readed in several forums and in the Attracta support forum, they don't overwrite your sitemap because they CREATE a robots.txt file where the URL for the sitemap is set, pointing to an URL in THEIR CDN. Issue: when creating this robots.txt, I've readed that previous version of this file is overwritten (ouch!)
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03-28-2012, 10:38 PM #44Web Hosting Master
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There are 3 problems
1) Privacy - Technically it is transmitting domain details to a 3rd party service
2) "Give them an inch" - It starts out with this and eventually could move to worse things (like full blown ads)
3) Support - Now hosts need to provide support for this if they dont turn it off
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03-28-2012, 10:46 PM #45Disabled
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You forgot one thing besides those 3 valid points which are a concern.
4) Increased IT costs
The minute your admins need to disable this on new servers, your own, or your sold servers to clients, it means more time wasted on stupid sys admin tasks. And it will popup again on each update. Even if it takes 5 minutes, its 5 minutes + on each new server, and on each new cPanel update which has to be done and make sure its gone, and in the case it has problems or conflicts, lets say you cannot remove it, or it leaves traces, then you can double this.
I also think cPanel has financial problems to came up with bundling such an ugly services as a default feature. Personally I tested myself Attracta and its offers nothing which I can consider of value. The free service and even paid one is worth nothing in my personal opinion. Its pure marketing and nice talk, they even advertise your site submitted to Yahoo, really? If its on Bing its already on Yahoo as well, so its all just bluff for newbie users.
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03-28-2012, 10:58 PM #46Newbie
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Yep, I stated the same, maybe in a "tacky" manner:
forums.cpanel.net/f133/attracta-become-new-feature-cpanel-whm-q-264422-p2.html#post1106631
But they simply cannot answer to most of the questions, and deviate with nice talk. It's for newbies. So, I will try to write a script to uninstalling using postupcp events.
Although, the moderator at cPanel warned me to wait for the big announcement they are about to post... let's see what's on.
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03-29-2012, 12:42 AM #47Newbie
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They add ads to opt-in users of the program AdDollars. Automatically? It seems so. They install a mod inside Apache:
attractaseo.com/partner_kit/technology.html
Does this mod install for every domain hosted whether or not its owner had signed up with Attracta? or the hook to the Attracta's js addon are installed only when user triggered a signup on their account? Don't know. One of the lines from the uninstall includes this:
perl /usr/local/cpanel/Cpanel/Attracta/Scripts/remove_apache_module.pl
Tada! automatic privacy invasion for free? wheee
Please don't label me as assuming without facts, I just have my doubts founded in what I can see after googling the brand a bit.
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03-29-2012, 12:54 AM #48Web Hosting Master
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well, time to cancel the few cpanel accounts i have and never sign up for any more
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03-29-2012, 01:38 AM #49The Linux Specialist
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and cPanel thinks this thread doesn't affect them: http://forums.cpanel.net/f133/attrac...ml#post1113912
Hmmmm.... let's see.
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03-29-2012, 06:45 AM #50Web Hosting Guru
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They will see they're wrong when they will see they start to lose customers.
I am personally not against Attracta and it's cooperation with cPanel.
I love addons. I think there should be an addon for cPanel that makes your regular website a adult website automatically, with few clicks. Also an addon that makes you coffee in the morning with only a click. Why not, options are good.
The way I see it, our problem is that cPanel will install automatically and enable by default an third-party app which we may or may not love it. That is for the sysadmin to decide. Just don't INSTALL it on my server unless I specifically choose to, like I do for Munin, @mail, other third-party addons. That is all we want. Enable it to be easy to install/use, that is good. Just don't install and enable it by default.
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