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Security update: cPanel servers patched (CVE-2026-41940)

We have finished deploying vendor patches across all cPanel servers to address CVE-2026-41940, a critical authentication bypass in cPanel & WHM that could allow unauthorised control-panel access on unpatched installations. No action required for our patchYour service sits on infrastructure we maintain; the corrective updates are already in ...
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Holiday Support Arrangements

Over the past twelve months, we’ve introduced a number of improvements to give our customers greater control over their services. These changes have already reduced support times and enhanced overall reliability. One of the key developments this year is our new On Call service. Our monitoring systems now automatically alert an on call engineer ...
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Updates to rDNS/PTR Records

Custom PTR Records We're making improvements to how we tidy up PTR records upon service termination. In the following regions, we will now automatically reset the PTR record on each IP back to the default style as follows; ip236.ip-144-217-231.f2hdns.com Servers will be delivered with the default f2hdns.com records in place. This is a trial ...
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