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buycpanel is closing down
WebProject
Host Rep, Veteran
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I just discovered that buycpanel is closing business, all the cPanel licenses were migrated to cPanel and all non cPanel license customers need to find alternative license providers.
Personally never had anything official email notifications, but today I opened a billing department ticket regarding next invoices and had the following reply:
Please note, that BuycPanel.com will be going offline on April 30th. Please make the license purchases with one of those distributors that meets your needs.
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I received an email and had my cPanel licenses migrated to cpanel.net. well my imunify and cloudlinux still there.
I had my cloudlinux cancelled and transferred so I'm not sure if they've took it or not. But my kernelcare licenses are still active on buycpanel
Nothing has been transferred from Buy cPanel to cPanel directly for us yet.
We received this directly from cPanel on the 23rd March though:
Hmm this is weird, they migrated the cloudlinux licenses but added cPanel to it.
Saw it coming really on the day Cpanel introduced the new pricing scheme. it was only a matter of time.
cPanel bought them out a while ago so was inevitable unfortunately, which is a shame.
cPanelbuys buycPanel.
Read LowEndTalk and get news when it breaks! :-)
https://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/comment/3021329
It was kind of a weird transition. My cPanel licenses just started auto-renewing on the card I had last used to pay for a cPanel ticket escalation. Not a bad thing just a little unexpected, maybe a heads-up to anyone else.
They randomly killed our litespeed licenses at one point knocking some nodes offline.
I'm trying to figure out if cPanel offers licenses or if I need to go direct.
Francisco
It's amazing the amount of blood cpanel manages to squeeze out of its user base.
Sometimes some companies do operate under two brands, the buycpanel sell other licenses and at better rate than cPanel
@Francisco
cpanel offers litespeed licensees.
I'm blind to them in manage2 unless I have to get them from the "store"?
Francisco
I see them in the store.
I got the same email from cPanel. Transferred my licences to different providers as the email said would be charged cPanel store pricing going forward. CloudLinux cost would have increased from $9.95/m to $16/m, crazy. @Jord has your CloudLinux pricing changed?
I'm guessing so, but mine says its cloudlinux plus cPanel which is rather strange as I haven't used it for about a year. I'm going to see who else offers it.
@Jord
Licensepal sells cloudlinux. Dont know if its any cheaper though.
Its not news but this type of consolidation is not healthy. What if cPanel parent company (with its big pocket) goes on buying everything related to hosting and then kaput them.
Well they almost have done so.
Solusvm
Cpanel
Plesk
Whmcs.
They own the market and majority share.
It was rather confusing when I looked. They had CloudLinux with cPanel @$16/m, although when that one paid yearly works out at $12.50 and then another licence that just said CloudLinux which was $250/y
I din't know about SolusVm.. so essentially anything which is popular in hosting industry is taken over by them ?
Yep sure is, SolusVM was bought by Plesk. So the owners of cPanel own quite a market share now.
I bet it won't be long before they probably buy Cloudlinux and Softaculous 😂
The way Cloudlinux is now integral for shared hosting, you are right, it is going to be next victim.
Personally I’d say DA was next with CloudLinux....
Is buycpanel shutting down completely?
I don't think we got an email from them.
I knew they had sold/been bought out by cPanel. We don't have any cPanel licenses with buycpanel any more. But we still have a few Softaculous licenses. Will we need to find a new place to buy those licenses?
This is really bad for their customers. But there are many other alternatives also.
The same, I personally never had any official email about it, but all next invoices are stopped and to clarify the information I have asked about it and had the following reply:
Wondering if they goofed and only wrote clients that had an active cPanel license? Basically assuming that all of their clients had at least one cPanel license with them.
The shutdown is not shocking to me. I was expecting something like this. But I was also kind of expecting an email from them. Not to simply learn about it from LET. Guess I would have figured it out when I went to pay any invoices next month.
I got the email. At that time didn’t have any cPanel licences with them but have historically.