As a cPanel User or System Administrator, I would like CNAME Flattening support in cPanel & WHM.
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Opening this to gauge interest in CNAME flattening support within cPanel & WHM. We've had a couple of direct requests for it, specifically with regard to the root of a domain, but I'm trying to determine more about how administrators, and possibly users, would utilize this.
I like this idea 
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Great that you opened this, but by doing so - you've proved the point that cPanel doesn't actually read feature requests. This has been requested numerous times already.
Great that you opened this, but by doing so - you've proved the point that cPanel doesn't actually read feature requests. This has been requested numerous times already.
There are a lot of CDN or security proxy services that can only be used on the root URL with CNAME flattening (or whatever you want to call it, I think ANAME and ALIAS records are alternate names used by different providers). This has actually improved in recent years with more of these providers offering an IP for the apex, but the service is often better with flattening.
Having an ANAME/ALIAS also provides options for hosts that want to create their own CDN for hosted sites, although GeoDNS might be better for this in some cases https://features.cpanel.net/topic/add-geodns-support-to-cpanel-and-whm-when-using-powerdns
It would be helpful to have CNAME flattening available for clients to setup on their own in cPanel, and also as something providers could configure in the DNS zone templates (if they want to route all hosted sites through one of these services by default).
There are a lot of CDN or security proxy services that can only be used on the root URL with CNAME flattening (or whatever you want to call it, I think ANAME and ALIAS records are alternate names used by different providers). This has actually improved in recent years with more of these providers offering an IP for the apex, but the service is often better with flattening.
Having an ANAME/ALIAS also provides options for hosts that want to create their own CDN for hosted sites, although GeoDNS might be better for this in some cases https://features.cpanel.net/topic/add-geodns-support-to-cpanel-and-whm-when-using-powerdns
It would be helpful to have CNAME flattening available for clients to setup on their own in cPanel, and also as something providers could configure in the DNS zone templates (if they want to route all hosted sites through one of these services by default).
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