MariaDB support for DNSONLY cPanel
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Give us the option to upgrade to MariaDB on DNSONLY cPanel servers. If you won't support switching from MySQL to MariaDB, at least give us the option to choose MariaDB as the default database when installing cPanel for the first time.
I like this idea 
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In your opinion, how would the DNSONLY product benefit from using MariaDB?
In your opinion, how would the DNSONLY product benefit from using MariaDB?
Some benefits I can think of off the top of my head:
1) Supposedly uses less resources compared to MySQL. Whether this is true or not, we'll never know unless we try.
2) Long term support, theoretically better since cPanel has mentioned they're planning to eventually switch to MariaDB anyway.
3) I've already switched to using MariaDB on my regular cPanel servers. Just makes sense to also move the DNSONLY servers to MariaDB as well.
I've already gotten in touch with support. Apparently setting mysql-version=10.0 in cpanel.config during provisioning works now, but that's assuming the servers aren't already live.
Otherwise, they suggested manually switching to MariaDB from the command line, which isn't officially supported by cPanel, so if your server gets hosed, then that's it.
Some benefits I can think of off the top of my head:
1) Supposedly uses less resources compared to MySQL. Whether this is true or not, we'll never know unless we try.
2) Long term support, theoretically better since cPanel has mentioned they're planning to eventually switch to MariaDB anyway.
3) I've already switched to using MariaDB on my regular cPanel servers. Just makes sense to also move the DNSONLY servers to MariaDB as well.
I've already gotten in touch with support. Apparently setting mysql-version=10.0 in cpanel.config during provisioning works now, but that's assuming the servers aren't already live.
Otherwise, they suggested manually switching to MariaDB from the command line, which isn't officially supported by cPanel, so if your server gets hosed, then that's it.
By the way, just wanted to add that the pages/scripts to convert from MySQL to MariaDB are already working in regular cPanel anyway, so it's not like adding this to a DNSONLY cPanel will require that much more work from your developers.
By the way, just wanted to add that the pages/scripts to convert from MySQL to MariaDB are already working in regular cPanel anyway, so it's not like adding this to a DNSONLY cPanel will require that much more work from your developers.
DNSONLY is a special built product for syncing and managing DNS zones. We intentionally do not expose a lot of the controls that provide the same flexibility as cPanel & WHM. Right now we find that MySQL suffices for the light database needs of DNSONLY. If, or when, we change to using MariaDB by default is when we would change it in DNSONLY.
DNSONLY is a special built product for syncing and managing DNS zones. We intentionally do not expose a lot of the controls that provide the same flexibility as cPanel & WHM. Right now we find that MySQL suffices for the light database needs of DNSONLY. If, or when, we change to using MariaDB by default is when we would change it in DNSONLY.
Just wanted to follow up with whoever's in charge of DNSONLY updates. It's been almost a year, and I still haven't seen any of my DNSONLY servers updated to MariaDB. I'm still stuck on mysql Ver 14.14 Distrib 5.5.50 which, as far as I know, has already reached EOL since the end of 2015. Weren't the DNSONLY servers supposed to be automatically upgraded to MariaDB 10 according to Kenneth's last reply?
Just wanted to follow up with whoever's in charge of DNSONLY updates. It's been almost a year, and I still haven't seen any of my DNSONLY servers updated to MariaDB. I'm still stuck on mysql Ver 14.14 Distrib 5.5.50 which, as far as I know, has already reached EOL since the end of 2015. Weren't the DNSONLY servers supposed to be automatically upgraded to MariaDB 10 according to Kenneth's last reply?
Even just giving us the option in older DNSONLY servers to upgrade to mysql 5.6 would be better than nothing at this point. At least we'd still be able to get security updates.
Even just giving us the option in older DNSONLY servers to upgrade to mysql 5.6 would be better than nothing at this point. At least we'd still be able to get security updates.
Just wanted to add that I made a new feature request relating to MySQL/MariaDB updates for DNSONLY servers. Hope it gets more attention than this FP.
https://features.cpanel.net/topic/ability-to-upgrade-older-mysqlmariadb-installations-on-dnsonly-servers-via-whm
Just wanted to add that I made a new feature request relating to MySQL/MariaDB updates for DNSONLY servers. Hope it gets more attention than this FP.
https://features.cpanel.net/topic/ability-to-upgrade-older-mysqlmariadb-installations-on-dnsonly-servers-via-whm
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