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04-23-2003, 11:12 AM #1Newbie
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Danger behind Cpanel
Just to make an assumption, what if cpanel licence server is down or touch wood, cpanel closed down, then our cpanel might not be able to run anymore?
As our cpanel is not able to sync with the licence server.
Correct me if i'm wrong.
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04-23-2003, 11:35 AM #2Web Hosting Master
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Do cpanel servers call home with licence info ? I didnt know this (dont use cpanel, dont plan to).
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04-23-2003, 11:46 AM #3Web Hosting Master
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Thats a good question.
Never thought of that.L. James Prevo - President/Owner
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04-23-2003, 11:49 AM #4WHT Addict
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Ack! cPanel calls home?! How stupid! Thousands of websites would stop to work if anything every happens to DarkOrb. Even if it wasn't their fault.
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04-23-2003, 12:00 PM #5Web Hosting Master
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Originally posted by xWho
Ack! cPanel calls home?! How stupid! Thousands of websites would stop to work if anything every happens to DarkOrb. Even if it wasn't their fault.
Of course cPanel calls home.. How do you think it validates the license? The IP is listed on the lincese server and its checked every few min I beleive...
Also as I remeber, the license server did go down once for a day, and then Nick put up seperate servers incase one goes down, the other takes over... I beleive one is in NAC and one was at Burst, not sure if still there...
Also, thousands of websites wouldn't just stop working, Apache still works when cpanel is down, the only thing that wouldn't work is POP3 because DarkOrb wrote the pop3 deamon...
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04-23-2003, 12:12 PM #6Newbie
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Ermm... don you guys feel that even you have paid the full amount for the product, but the product still not belongs to you?
As you might not be able to use cpanel if the licence server is not functioning or your ip address has been removed...
Or maybe cpanel closed down..... touch wood.
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04-23-2003, 12:17 PM #7Web Hosting Master
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Originally posted by Ibanez
Ermm... don you guys feel that even you have paid the full amount for the product, but the product still not belongs to you?
As you might not be able to use cpanel if the licence server is not functioning or your ip address has been removed...
Or maybe cpanel closed down..... touch wood.
How else could someone keep track of software licensing without a main server that it calls back on... Even if DarkOrb even went out of business, why would you want to keep on using a control panel thats not being updated and will prolly have security holes eventually..
Even the owned licenses call back to make sure the server is allowed to run it..
More and more software is going to this because of the huge amounts of piracy..
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04-23-2003, 05:55 PM #8Web Hosting Master
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Originally posted by The Prohacker
How else could someone keep track of software licensing without a main server that it calls back on... Even if DarkOrb even went out of business, why would you want to keep on using a control panel thats not being updated and will prolly have security holes eventually..
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04-23-2003, 06:11 PM #9Web Hosting Master
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Does it have an attempt log?
Like it does not shut off unless it is unable to make contact for say X number of days.L. James Prevo - President/Owner
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