A new apnscp update has been released featuring a brand new Dashboard. In fact, it’s the first major Dashboard since apnscp was released 7 years ago. Let’s discuss the Dashboard for a moment:
Dashboard
Of notable, and quite prominent change is Google Analytics integration. With a few clicks of the mouse you can have Google Analytics – with live user traffic – available on login. It ties into Pagespeed, which is another Google feature to optimize and minify your site content thereby making your web site load faster. Because who wants a slow website anyway?
This feature is only available on v5+ platforms (CPU limitations on older platforms, sorry!) If you’re on an older platform, open a ticket for a complimentary server migration.
htaccess Driver
In addition to Analytics, we created an app that makes managing your htaccess files easy: “Personalities” available under Web. It provides a few directives with error-checking and rollback support, so it’s impossible (on paper at least) to irreversibly break something. Personalities are still very new, so as always, I’m excited to hear your feedback!
Timezone Support
Timezones are now utilized for any date/time reporting. You can customize from the default America/New York timezone under Account > Change Information.
Control Groups
Control groups provide a reasonable way of guaranteeing CPU and memory for accounts on v5+ platforms by enforcing limits on others. For Developer+ accounts, memory limits are enforced to ensure a single user doesn’t monopolize all available server resources (you’d be surprised to see how often apps accidentally take up 4 GB+ of memory). CPU is monitored, but not enforced at this time; consequently, CPU usage will always appear as 50% in the Dashboard. CPU includes user (non I/O) + system time (I/O) and memory lists current + peak usage to give you an idea of how your Passenger/CGI apps, e-mail logins, and web page requests are doing.
For convenience, CPU and memory utilization is available in the Dashboard below Google Analytics. It’s also available under Account > Summary > Dev.
Changelog
- NEW: (v5+ platforms only) dashboard! integrated Google Analytics + control group resource usage
- NEW: personalities module, htaccess driver with input validation
- NEW: cgroup module, hooks into cgroup controllers (memory, cpu) on Linux
- NEW: timezone configuration under Change Information
- NEW: batch processor, execute command when load permits (Util_Process)
- NEW: control groups on v5+ platforms, enforce CPU + memory
- NEW: module hook: _housekeeping(), invoked once on backend startup to assert permissions and, well, do housekeeping (Module_Skeleton)
- NEW: cgroup module (Cgroup)
- NEW: Chroot process execution (Util_Process::Chroot)
- NEW: AutoSpam participation in Mail > SpamAssassin Configuration
- NEW: process management module (pman)
- FIX: wrong cgroup module name (Cgroup)
- FIX: oversight on ER init, handler never installed (Error Reporter)
- FIX: append username + domain on logout
- FIX: memory.limit_in_bytes integer overflow on v6 platforms, compare as double, then cast to int after determining if overflow (Cgroup)
- FIX: add_subdomain() improper world octal permissions applied if subdomain located in user home directory (Web)
- FIX: convert absolute to relative symlink if subdomain document root is an absolute link that apache cannot follow (Web)
- FIX: getpwnam()- ensure uid and gid are integers (User)
- FIX: missing semicolon in Domain Preview (Dashboard)
- FIX: retain whitespace in parameter presentation (DNS Manager)
- FIX: overzealous trimming of whitespace can cause a record removal to fail if parameter ends or begins with whitespace (DNS)
- CHG: flip storage/bandwidth gauges to be consistent with page template (Dashboard)
- CHG: default call_app() return value now json (apnscp.js)
- CHG: prefer in order sha512, sha256, and sha1 when generating a new private key (Ssl)
- CHG: follow 301 codes as well
- CHG: populate/depopulate cgroup filesystem on account creation/deletion (Cgroup)
- CHG: cleanup svn rev/date keywords (Util_Process)
- CHG: use transparency on refresh png
- CHG: add KB to template (Page Template)
- CHG: retry dns_get_record() in case of network interruption (DNS)
- CHG: upgrade jQuery to 1.10.2
- CHG: cleanup subdomain HTML (Subdomains)
- CHG: inline reset.css in core.css to reduce http requests
- CHG: UI fixup
- CHG: get_bandwidth_rollover()- change date to be consistent with func description: date bandwidth rolls over, not rolled over (Site)
- CHG: edit_mysql_user()- check if user/host exists before editing user (SQL)
- CHG: default to login domain (Util_Process::Sudo)
- CHG: add exec callback before proc_open (Util_Process)
- CHG: default stream delay from 0 (blocking) to 5 sec (Util_Process)
- CHG: support autoloading third-party vendor/ libraries (apnscpFunction)
- CHG: replace storage/bandwidth gauges with CSS gradients
- CHG: skip non-device mounts when reading /proc/mounts (Stats)
- CHG: skip cgroup mounts (Stats)
- CHG: store configuration constants in memcached if apc_store() unavailable on v6+ platforms (apnscpCore)
- CHG: move basic memcached configuration into Cache_Mproxy
- CHG: refactor create_maildir_backend() into pure PHP implementation (Email)
- CHG: refactor module, replace mailbox indicator chars with constants (Email)
- CHG: add location in the CP to fix dangling domains/subdomains on user deletion (User)