ClusterCS 2.4 Update

ClusterCS has reached its 2.4 version and we are excited to tell you what’s new.

In this huge update, we are focusing on bringing customer-requested features, updates to the existing services along with new services altogether, UX improvements and bugfixes.

Also, the ClusterCS backend infrastructure has been greatly enhanced for an improved overall experience.

Updates:

• • Domain FTP accounts have been added, under Domains -> Manage (on the right side of the screen), this allows a user to create FTP accounts on one domain, which are chrooted to a subfolder. Great for giving limited access;

• • DRDB implementation – a more lightweight HA storage solution (it can use either a block device or an empty file as a storage solution);
  • E-mail SSL has been added, and e-mail server settings can now be found  under Servers -> Actions -> Email;
  • The ElasticSearch service has been added (compatible with single servers only, for the moment, it will soon be available for Clusters as well);
  • A Galera Cluster monitor has been implemented;
  • The MySQL Cluster version 8.0 has been added;
  • Various performance and stability updates have been pushed for the ClusterCS backend (it should make the website more responsive and less prone to crashes);
  • A new Transaction Management System has been implemented: it allows multiple users to perform more actions within the panel at the same time on one server (or cluster);
  • All the operations within the control panel have been rewritten and weighted for priority and resource locking (in the ClusterCS backend);
  • Added a multi-write file transaction that allows our backend to write more files at speed, which greatly improves domain configuration on servers/clusters that contain a high number of domains;
  • Updates have been performed to the  ClusterCS agent that connects to the servers for overall greater performance;
  • We have updated more services for CentOS 8 compatibility, we are close to live release from beta;
  • The configuration for the proftpd services has been updated;
  • $SITE_ROOT$ has been added in domain custom config parsing (SPEED tab);
  • hostname change to the hostname has been introduced in ClusterCS, as some services depend on it (Such as DRBD);
  • Support for Oracle 7 and 8 – has been added but they are not officially supported by ClusterCS yet, we have enabled adding Oracle 7 and 8 servers as they are also based on RHEL – incompatibilities may occur.

UI/UX Improvements:

• • The Login System has been improved with changes to  layouts, easier login, a quicker Forgot Password procedure, and the overall experience should be better;
  • The Backups page has been migrated to the new Vue interface;
  • The Firewall page has been migrated to the new Vue interface with new functions such as the possibility to set firewall rule-expire, multiple sources and destination IPs, templates (for SSH, MySQL, Galera, MySQL cluster, MooseFS, FTP).

Bugfixes:

• • Functionality fixes for the following pages under the Domain Tab: Backups, Logs, Cronjobs;
  •  The Galera monitor has been fixed;
  • The backup space check function on backing up databases has been fixed;
  • The WHM backup restore function has been fixed;
  • A rare occurrence of Let’s Encrypt generation failure has been solved;
  • A fix for older versions of MySQL has been included in the initial installation.

Upcoming updates:

• • ElasticSearch for a Clustered Environment will be soon implemented as an update to the single-server version that is already available;
  • Redis Cluster will be introduced as a distributed implementation of Redis,  focused on Performance and High Availability.

Let us know what you think of this update and if you don’t have an account, give it a try!