cPanel Hosting for Mission Critical Sites

About this service

Description cPanel Hosting for Mission Critical Sites provides web hosting in the familiar cPanel environment with additional layers of caching and redundancy to provide increased performance and availability vs. standard cPanel Web Hosting.
Other names cPanel Plus, CPanel+, CPP
Documentation links https://go.illinois.edu/cpanelmissioncriticaldocs
Features and tools
  • Fallback/maintenance page development, consultation, and configuration
  • Softaculous App Installer for cloning, staging, backups, and restores
  • Manage cPanel Access for adding/removing users to the cPanel account
  • PHPMyAdmin for direct access to MySQL databases underlying the hosted websites
  • Terminal and SSH for accessing the user shell and file space
  • File Manager for uploading, downloading, moving, compressing, extracting, or changing permissions of files from a graphical interface
  • AutoSSL for provisioning and automatically renewing SSL certificates
  • Git version control and deployment features

Getting and using this service

Who can use the service Staff who support units, departments, or projects that include websites that are critical to the university mission.
How to get the service Fill out the form at https://go.illinois.edu/cpanelmissioncriticalrequest. The web hosting team will work with the requestor to evaluate the site’s suitability to the service.
Cost No charge
Usage constraints
  • Only public, mission critical websites will be hosted on cPanel for Mission Critical Sites.
  • Only one production website per account is supported. Additional websites within the same unit, if approved, will be supported in separate accounts.
  • At this time, only WordPress website hosting is available.

Support and Hours

How to get help https://go.illinois.edu/cpanelmissioncriticalhelp
Training and consulting opportunities Individual consultations will be scheduled during on-boarding and as needed.
Maintenance hours Regular maintenance window: Wednesdays 9 p.m. - 11:59 p.m. Service will remain available during most of the maintenance window.
Lifecycle stage Production
Provided by Technology Services