cPanel on CentOS – extended support program comes at a cost

If you’re running cPanel on CentOS, or on a similar Linux distro like CloudLinux 7, then it hopefully isn’t news to you that these operating systems are on their last legs. Something you may not know, though, is that cPanel is now offering to support CentOS for a little while longer. At a cost.

CentOS was once the only option for running cPanel on Linux, but the clock started ticking on this arrangement when CentOS entered its end-of-life (EOL) phase in 2021. There were twists in the story since then but the important facts are:

The ELS will kick in automatically for all qualifying instances of cPanel from the start of next month. The program’s costs will follow a month later, from the start of August. The only way to opt out is by moving off CentOS/CloudLinux 7.

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