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System Requirements

Installation Guide

Linux

Requirements:

266 MHz Processor or better (more processing power is highly recommended)
256MB of RAM (1+ GB recommended when hosting many accounts)
10GB-2TB disk space (more disk space is necessary to host more domains)
A fresh install of a distribution listed below

Supported Operating Systems:

i386 Architecture:

	Red Hat^® Enterprise Linux^®	2.1, 3, 4, 5	Recommended!
	CentOS	3.x, 4.x, 5.x	Recommended!

x86-64/amd64 Architecture:

	Red Hat^® Enterprise Linux^®	3, 4, 5	Recommended!
	CentOS	4.x, 5.x	Recommended!

FreeBSD (recommended for advanced users only)

WARNING: If you do not have experience administering a FreeBSD system and upgrading ports, we highly recommend you choose an operating system that has binary updates like RedHat or CentOS. Show Explanation ↓

cPanel only uses the ports system for updates on FreeBSD. You should not use binary packages system (addpkg) on FreeBSD when using cPanel. Use of both systems can cause major administration headaches when dependancies are removed from one system without the other system being aware. The ports being used are coming directly from FreeBSD's ports repository. As port upgrades may require some manual interaction to ensure the system is functioning as expected, we are unable to solve problems as automatically as we are on systems like RedHat or CentOS. For this reason, we ask for those without FreeBSD administration experience to use RedHat or CentOS so they will have a better overall experience with our software

Requirements:

266 MHz Processor or better (more processing power is recommend)
256MB of RAM (1 GB recommended when hosting many accounts)
10GB-2TB disk space (more disk space is necessary to host more domains)
A fresh install of the RELEASE branch of a version listed below

i386 Architecture:

FreeBSD^®

6.0, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 7.0

x86-64/amd64 Architecture:

FreeBSD^®

6.0, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 7.0

Supported Virtual Environments:

	Linux-VServer
	User-Mode Linux
	FreeVPS
	ServerXchange®
	Virtual Iron^TM
	Virtuozzo^TM
	VMware® Server, ESX Server
	XenEnterprise^TM, XenExpress^TM, XenServer^TM

Operating Systems at EOL

These operating systems are supported by cPanel but no longer receive updates from the vendor. cPanel recommends upgrading to a vendor supported distribution. New installations on these OSes are not supported.

	Fedora^TM	Cores 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
	Fedora-Legacy (Red Hat^®)	7.3, 9
	FreeBSD^®	4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6, 4.8, 4.10, 5.0, 5.3, 5.4
	Mandriva	7.2, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 9.0, 9.1, 9.2
	SuSE_®	9.0
	Trustix	ES 2.0, 2.2

cPanel Product Support Life Cycle Update

Fedora, Red Hat and their respective logo are trademarks of Red Hat, Inc. FreeBSD and its respective logos are trademarks of the FreeBSD Foundation. Linux is a trademark of Linus Torvalds. Mandriva is a trademark of Mandrivasoft. ServerXchange is a trademark of the Ensim Corporation. SUSE is a trademark of Novell, Inc. Virtual Iron and its respective logo are trademarks of Virtual Iron, Inc. Virtuozzo is a trademark of SWsoft, Inc. VMware and its respective logo are trademarks of VMware, Inc. Windows Server is a trademark of the Microsoft Corporation. XenEnterprise, XenExpress, XenServer and their respective logos are trademarks of XenSource, Inc. All trademarks are trademarks of their respective holder(s). All rights reserved.

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