alt.hn

5/22/2025 at 1:02:26 AM

CPanel's IPv6 Overhaul

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

by ggm

5/22/2025 at 10:55:45 AM

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?

by afcool83

5/22/2025 at 9:22:02 AM

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!

by rurban

5/22/2025 at 2:32:40 PM

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.

by sparky_

5/22/2025 at 3:08:38 PM

Shared hosting is still in huge demand and extensively used.

by indigodaddy

5/22/2025 at 5:20:09 PM

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.

by afcool83

5/22/2025 at 2:16:40 PM

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

by devilbunny

5/23/2025 at 2:36:48 PM

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.

by TheNewsIsHere

5/22/2025 at 6:49:17 AM

Upvoted, this seems like a pretty big deal.

by johng