How to prevent cpanel from doing graceful restart every time an add on domain is added

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Please note that graceful restart is done any time cPanel makes an update to the Apache configuration. It is not the same as a full Apache restart. After a graceful restart, the uptime reported by /usr/local/apache/bin/apachectl status stays the same. A graceful restart is really a reloading of the configuration values, and should not affect the functioning of your sites.

In your case, the graceful restart is taking a long time, it means there must be an issue with you cPanel server, in this case you need to contact your serever admin and recheck the issue completely. Also if you want you can open ticket in cPanel support ticket.

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Septiadi Agus

Updated on September 18, 2022

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Septiadi Agus almost 2 years
I want to add 300-400 add on domains and wild card subdomains.

Every time I add an add on domain, cpanel does a graceful restart.

The result is the whole server is down for 5-10minutes.

If I did:
```
tail -f /usr/local/apache/logs/error_log


    [Sun Dec 30 23:11:18 2012] [notice] Graceful restart requested, doing restart
[Sun Dec 30 23:18:01 2012] [notice] SSL FIPS mode disabled
[Sun Dec 30 23:18:01 2012] [notice] Apache/2.2.23 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.23 OpenSSL/1.0.0-fips mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 configured -- resuming normal operations 
```
If I do:
```
tail -f /usr/local/cpanel/logs/error_log
[2012-12-30 23:11:17 -0600] info [parkadmin] Creating Addon domain 'massadult.com' on 'massadult.freemarketforever.com'.
[2012-12-30 23:11:23 -0600] info [parkadmin] 'local' datastore in use (/var/cpanel/conf/apache/local)
/usr/local/cpanel/bin/ftpadmin : Syncing Ftp Databases....
[2012-12-30 23:13:42 -0600] info [cpmysqladmin] Creating MySQL database freemark_massadult for user freemark 
```
Sometimes, [2012-12-30 22:37:36 -0600] info [ensure_vhost_includes] 'local' datastore in use (/var/cpanel/conf/apache/local) shows up in cpanel error_log which could be the problem of why it took so long to graceful restart httpd.

So basically I want to add tons of add on domains and then do apache restart once. I've heard we can modify a script slightly to prevent this from happening. But which script and how?
- EEAA over 11 years
  
  This is reason number 14872582 to not use cPanel.
- Septiadi Agus over 11 years
  
  Why the downvote if I may know?
- EEAA over 11 years
  
  The downvote wasn't from me. If I were to guess, though, it was due to the involvement of cPanel, which isn't looked upon well here. It tends to do things in non-standard ways and as such, makes troubleshooting quite difficult. My recommendation would be to ditch cPanel and commit to learning real linux sysadmin.
- Septiadi Agus over 11 years
  
  And how do anyone manage hundreds of domains without cpanel?
- EEAA over 11 years
  
  Honestly? Vim. Or perhaps something like Puppet.
- Josh almost 10 years
  
  Again, I'd like to point out that many of us are forced to use cPanel. Often we're sysadmins at hosting companies. Neither vim nor Puppet provide end users with ways to manage their email addresses, create forwarders, edit .htaccess files using a GUI, view and manage log files and stats, track quota and bandwidth usage, install web software... the list goes on. Just because our companies make us use cPanel doesn't mean we're bad sysadmins :-) That being said, an Apache graceful restart should not bring Apache down and should not take 5-10 minutes. That's the issue here, not cPanel.
- HopelessN00b over 9 years
  
  This question appears to be off-topic because it is about working with a service provider's management interface, such as cPanel.
Septiadi Agus over 11 years

I am the server admin. I guess I'll make tickets. It tends to happen when server load is high.
Septiadi Agus over 11 years

4 more reputation and I can upvote :)