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My decision stand. Shared Hosting will be discontinued on Sept 1st.
@yokowasis it is an extension for yearly licenses not for monthly. So hostmantis would only benefit if they actually purchased yearly licenses
We do not.
@HostMantis So you sold multi year resellers and are paying cpanel month to month?
Of course, he would. Lowend hosts don't have the capitals to pay for yearly licenses.
Things in the computer field are suppose to get cheaper every month not 600% more expensive.
Did i read incorrectly in the updated announcement but existing WHMCS license partner users are getting a raw deal compared to web hosts who currently don't use WHMCS who get free 12 month license to get their web hosting operations up to speed on the new billing ? Isn't that like another kick in the face to existing partners - allowing more competition in the form of new partners who don't have to pay for their WHMCS licenses for 12 months ?
Really sad to see cPanel end up in this situation and I feel for cPanel staff they probably didn't have much say as directive was up in Oakley management ?? Reminds me of Internet Brands acquiring vBulletin and pricing changes > vB4 and vB5 mess which vB staff had no say in the matter but vB staff bore the full force of customer anger and frustration!
Investors don't tend to have common sense.
Exactly. This was unexpected, and can be characterized as price gouging. Overall , good news for DA and the rest of the competition. Few like to partner with scorpions🦂.
Predictable reply!
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Yes. Don't see how that is uncommon.
What's even dumber at this point is providers that are using this as an excuse to make other changes than just covering for the cost of this cpanel change.
Well it seems more of a way to get people hooked on WHMCS...
Some providers are many using this opportunity to get out of that unsustainable hole they are trapped in, makes sense. You don't need to renew.
You are right and I won't. I'm just pointing out the hypocrisy. Welcome to the hosting industry, I guess.
This is the Low End Webhosting Industry Shake Out.
I hope now hosts will lock in their other vendors to contracts longer than 30 days. Kernel care, litespeed, cloudlinux; if you are on monthly you are at their whim for a change in price. Same with the supplier of your server and/or colo. Might want to start to lock down and prepay, buy lifetime (when prudent) for as many of your variable expenses.
Or, just stop selling hosting for anything other than monthly terms.
It's not. You seem to be under fire the past few days by guys who want something for nothing boy, what a feeling. These guys shop the internet for $3 a year hosting a then have the audacity to ask hosts to pay yearly for services.
Look at my post history. I got Hostmantis to say that the price increase wasn't really about cPanel.
Migrating can still be annoying though. If marked as recurring it should be recurring, and if licence inreases happends that should be on the provider. If the provider is lowend and doesn't have the capital, I would say it's fair that the increases + payment fees gets added to the end clients, nothing more.
Well if you sell it for a year you have to provide it for a year- noone really cares if costs go up due to lack of proper planning
What planning?
Did you know before us that cPanel will increase the prices?
Any item not under contract is capable of having its price changed. hence a contract to assure pricing.
I agree but you know better than anyone that the rules are defined and re-defined on LET when something like this happens. Providers in this segment don't work by the rules of sensibility.
you my friend are lack of proper planning
Exactly. But @HostMantis increases were very steep.... He should have expected the blow back.
And "recurring" may turn out not to be.
@donli yep, I am sure many companies are going to breach their promise on their longer hosting packages. It's not right for the host to do that, but they will have to live with their choice and the repercussion of not sticking to their word
No one expected that even buycpanel biggest cpanel partner
I think it says a lot that they had to find out about the change from a customer. "Partner" indeed.
We expected the blow back from the cPanel increase, so there was going to be a blow back regardless of the manner of any increase or change of rates. Which is why we made the decision to make the changes when we did.
We completely understand the low end crowd being pissed off by our decision, but we want to be here tomorrow to continue offering great service and we can't do that while doing this constant "race to the bottom" that's been going on.
We're sticking with cPanel and are going to continue providing the same great service.
If other providers here choose to move to DirectAdmin or other alternative panels and continue appealing to the low end crowd, they are welcome to do so, but we won't be going that route.