Long Account Names / Rename Account Names

Hello,

I have a couple of ideas to make CWP accounts easier to manage.

Long Account Names

Account names are currently limited to eight characters. Would the developers please increase the account name length so that account names can be the same as domain names which are generally much longer. I'm sure there will be a lot of users like me that dislike the eight character limit.


Rename Account /Domain Names

Account and domain names once created are effectively permanent. The only way to rename them is to create a new account then backup and restore from the old to the new which is very time consuming.

A more elegant solution would be to have the ability to rename an account and domain name for the following reasons. If CWP is hosting a production website and also has other development staging sites. A rename feature would allow the domain to be set against a staging site by running a script. No messing about creating new accounts, backing up restoring just to make a staging site the production live site.

The code or scripts must exist to create an account and domain name then it must be a trivial task to duplicate the code and instead of creating the necessary resources, just rename the existing resources. If the developers don’t wish to add that feature to CWP then please identify the code/script and I will do the modifications myself. And then I can run the script/code from the command line.

Thanks.

Would the developers please increase the account name length so that account names can be the same as domain names which are generally much longer.

Just to be clear, while the rest of your suggestions are good, this one is a bad idea. You do not want to make the username easy to guess, as that invites easier brute force attacks. And as we just saw with the File Manager flaw, if you knew the username it was game over. In the past, I have used cPanel systems the required a random number to be in the username just to add some randomness and make it less easily guessed.