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only main account charge. Add on or Alias are not effect.
I believe cPanel accs
They keep their many brands looking like separate companies and many were acquired after years of operation.
Powweb was using something they apparently developed over years (and was very different than cPanel in several ways).
What's your source newbie?
If that is the case someone is bound to come up with a messy way of using accounts + add-on domains as reseller accounts to circumvent the pricing.
I'd rather go with DA rather than messing with it like that
Your "partner" got drunk with power and just threw you down and screwed you in the ass.
React accordingly.
Register and vote please: https://request.jetapps.com/topic/support-for-direct-admin
That's a bit dramatic
is it though?
Key help panel looks great. Anyone tried it?
I have seen a lot of this and in some respects, I agree.
Like I mentioned before, you rely significantly on a 3rd party then you need to be prepared for the consequences of that 3rd party doing everything from changing their software, pricing or even going out of business. And whatever they do it could affect what you do and you have no choice but to accept it.
Having said that, this is a change out of the blue and so significant the implications are far-reaching.
Now having been up half the night I am now comfortable that the immediate effect on me is around an extra $500 each month in licensing which I can absorb without a price increase. If all my customers start filling up their resellers I may be in the shit, at 78% utilisation I am in the shit but I am glad it is as high as 78% and I do not have the type of client that in the main uses that much. And I have always considered my reseller limits to be appropriate and my pricing is far away from low-end.
Shared and reseller hosting over the years whether you are a small provider which I still consider myself or a big guy with 100k+ the pricing across the board is the same, lower than the new cPanel pricing can deal with and everyone is affected.
The key here is per user pricing on a panel that has hitherto built its success on elements such as reseller capability and the flexibility it has brought.
So yes, it could cause people to lose their livelihoods as providers and easily lead to jobs being lost. That is not being dramatic, it's fact.
To be clear I accept that it's their decision, it has been in the back of my mind for a long time that pricing changes on cPanel are a significant risk. But I never saw per user pricing coming...
I don't hate them for it, and I am not going to lose any sleep over it (well apart from last night trying to do the numbers). What I am pissed about is the lack of clear communication and not knowing the finer detail of what they mean by a user? Are addon or aliases in scope for the charge? Is the billing based on how many users there are on a single day of the month? and so on.
2020 the price per user goes up to $0.40 in the name of improvements and added value.
Now that they have done this in a ridiculously aggressive and sudden way with clearly no regard for the impacts, if you think it will stop at $0.20 you need to give yourself a shake, I expect prices to rise year on year until they find that sweet spot because not enough people are going to actually kick back against this.
make no mistake, we collectedly are the hand that feeds them and they are biting it.
This is going to kill any free cpanel hosting providers that may still be around..
@VirMach what happens to VPShared..?
I have no doubt this is not the last increase.
Taking a step back I see what Oakley realise, the potential. I mean the industry is so reliant on cPanel. Take cPanel away from being the industry norm and overnight turn it into a more boutique styled offering. If you want it (which most people do) then you pay more for it. Can't afford an iPhone? buy a One Plus.
WHMCS? Price increase, but if you offer cPanel you will get discounts
cPanel is certainly not the end of this story.
In the main, that is not a bad thing.
Seen from one perspective. I don't earn that figure per month!
Personally I encountered lots of bugs and errors. The support team is good on free version too. They even installed me the panel after I installed it and got errors. But it was really, really unstable.
Now I am hosting websites by terminal.
Note: Tested it one year ago.
Welp... for those hosts using cPanel dns only, not really a good viable solution at the moment, each server with DA would require a license. Glad I still have my DA lifetime license though.
Isn't cPanel DNS only free?
My thoughts (long drivel) on the subject:
https://io.bikegremlin.com/10527/cpanel-price-rise/
RamNode's announcement:
iirc there was a cPanel DNSONLY server license, which is free? I may be wrong though
RamNode seems to provide shared cPanel accounts to use as a DNS server?
There have been discussions about the idea of DNS only continuing to be free. I am sure there was some talk about it late last year from cPanel themselves
Sorry, I think I quoted the wrong person.
It's "Account based pricing".
From: https://cpanel.net/wp-content/themes/cPbase/assets/downloads/cP_Store_Licensing_Guide.pdf
Already planned:
https://request.jetapps.com/topic/make-a-fork-for-directadmin
When is it necessary? I have only a shared account with Hostmantis and use the addon domains feature all the time. Any advanantages? Apart from actually reselling that is.