{"id":50405,"date":"2018-09-20T13:49:49","date_gmt":"2018-09-20T18:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.cpanel.com\/?p=50405"},"modified":"2018-09-20T13:49:49","modified_gmt":"2018-09-20T18:49:49","slug":"renaming-proxy-subdomains-to-service-domains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devel.www.cpanel.net\/blog\/products\/renaming-proxy-subdomains-to-service-domains\/","title":{"rendered":"Renaming Proxy Subdomains to Service Domains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In cPanel &amp; WHM version 76, which we expect to be in EDGE this week, we renamed &#8220;Proxy Subdomains&#8221; to &#8220;Service Subdomains&#8221; due to improvements we are making under the hood. Let&#8217;s talk about where they came from, and why we&#8217;re changing their name!<\/p>\n<h2>What are Proxy Subdomains?<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/documentation.cpanel.net\/display\/CKB\/Proxy+Subdomains+Explanation\">Proxy subdomains<\/a>\u00a0allow users to connect\u00a0<span class=\"adverb\">indirectly\u00a0<\/span>to the cPanel &amp; WHM login pages. Rather than opening <code>example.com:2083<\/code>,\u00a0they can open\u00a0<code>cpanel.example.com<\/code>. Proxy subdomains have two primary uses for hosting providers and cPanel users. First, they help make remembering how to access cPanel easier.\u00a0<code>cpanel.example.com<\/code>\u00a0is much easier to remember than\u00a0the port number\u00a0<code>2083<\/code>\u00a0or\u00a0the URL\u00a0<code>example.com:2083<\/code>. Second, they make it easier to access cPanel. It is fairly common for a network administrator to block access to non-standard ports. Any user who is unable to connect to port 2083 can navigate to\u00a0<code>cpanel.example.com<\/code>\u00a0to bypass this restriction.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cpanel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Standard-Profile-Diagram.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.cpanel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Standard-Profile-Diagram.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"392\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Users can enter\u00a0<\/em><code>cpanel.example.com<\/code>\u00a0<em>to log in to their server<\/em>.<\/p>\n<h2>Why the change?<\/h2>\n<p>We are currently developing a new\u00a0cPanel &amp; WHM feature based on different kinds of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/documentation.cpanel.net\/display\/CKB\/How+to+Use+Server+Profiles\">server configuration profiles<\/a>. This feature is included in version 76, but is also marked as experimental. One of these profiles is called a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/documentation.cpanel.net\/display\/76docs\/server+profile\">Mail Profile<\/a>, and the\u00a0Mail Profile\u00a0<span class=\"passivevoice\">is optimized\u00a0<\/span>for email hosting.\u00a0<span class=\"hardreadability\">This server profile disables most of the services that do not\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"adverb\">directly\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"hardreadability\">support mail and includes other improvements<\/span>. These improvements result in leaner memory and CPU usage, and better overall experience!<\/p>\n<p>On a cPanel &amp; WHM server, there is a daemon that we run called\u00a0<code>cpsrvd<\/code>. For this blog post, think of\u00a0<code>cpsrvd<\/code>\u00a0as the entire cPanel &amp; WHM product, including cPanel, WHM, and Webmail. On a standard server, Apache (the webserver) would listen on ports\u00a0<code>80<\/code>\u00a0and\u00a0<code>443<\/code>\u00a0(the standard web ports) and proxy the cPanel, WHM, and Webmail subdomain traffic as an intermediary to\u00a0<code>cpsrvd<\/code>.\u00a0In the Mail Profile,\u00a0<code>cpsrvd<\/code>\u00a0now listens to ports\u00a0<code>80<\/code>\u00a0and\u00a0<code>443<\/code>\u00a0<span class=\"adverb\">directly, without Apache in the middle<\/span>. Apache will not need to proxy traffic on the Mail Profile server.\u00a0For this reason, we are renaming &#8220;Proxy Subdomains&#8221; to \u201cService Subdomains.\u201d This<span class=\"hardreadability\">\u00a0name more\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"adverb\">clearly\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"hardreadability\">describes the subdomains\u2019 purpose, rather than focusing on the implementation<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cpanel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Mail-Profile-Diagram.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.cpanel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Mail-Profile-Diagram.jpg\" width=\"601\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Users still connect to\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0<code>cpanel.example.com<\/code>\u00a0<em>\u00a0to log in, but the server handles the traffic differently<\/em>.<\/p>\n<h2>What does this mean for me?<\/h2>\n<p>From the user&#8217;s perspective, nothing will change. Users will still use the subdomains as they have historically, and still interact with the server the same as they have. The only difference is how the system delivers the domain, and the name of the feature. This implementation changes will not disrupt the user experience in any way.\u00a0For consistency, we will apply this renaming across the entire product.<\/p>\n<p>Want to know about server profiles? You should definitely come to the annual\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/conference.cpanel.com\/\">cPanel Conference<\/a>\u00a0just 11 days from today, October 1st &#8211; 3rd in Houston, Texas. Otherwise, stay tuned for more information on profiles and all of the other exciting news coming in cPanel &amp; WHM Version 76!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In cPanel &amp; WHM version 76, which we expect to be in EDGE this week, we renamed &#8220;Proxy Subdomains&#8221; to &#8220;Service Subdomains&#8221; due to improvements we are making under the hood. 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