Who needs virus’s….

…when cpanel can stuff your site up for you instead? Cpanel issued an update to the software that a lot of hosting companies use to provide easy facilities to their clients. Unfortunately there was a major bug in the latest upgrade which came out on Thursday night (or thats the first I have heard it affecting someone) where a lot of the modules that used to be installed with the system were no longer available. As a result people who have used various modules to access their mysql databases etc have had their pages broken. It took my hosting company a day to fix it on their servers as they have had to go through and work out which modules are needed. The good news is that apparently there is a script that analyses the pure perl files and works out the dependencies and installs them but this does need someone to run this analysing script. Also the perl repositories are problably going to be hammered with all the hosting companies downloading the various files that are needed! There are Control Panel support forums but you have to register to even view the data (and I can’t be bothered).