We’ve identified problems with CloudLinux’s release procedure & have escalated to them.

There are now 3x active tickets between us and them, working in parallel to progress everything.
Many thanks for your patience. This incident has highlighted room for improvement on their side.

We’ve added a “special vdev” to the DirectAdmin backup server, comprised of 3x SSDs in a mirror.

This boosts performance of small-block and metadata I/O, and brings us a step closer to deployment.