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Finally.
https://cpanel.net/wp-content/themes/cPbase/assets/downloads/cP_Store_Licensing_Guide.pdf
Keeping file systems separate as well as system resource usage is one of the main benefits of creating cPanel accounts over just using addon domains.
Sure. There's advantages with addon domains too though. For example, if you do small changes to many domains it goes a lot faster using one single login.
You know things are heading to a wrong direction when you need academic education to understand licensing structure of a product.
^ Main domain gets hacked, so do the others. Add-on domains is a model that I have never encouraged/supported.
I am waiting for a provider to sell non-cPanel shared hosting at a crazy price
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NOMORECPANELThat pricing plan is ridiculous. To go from, basically, unlimited (on a VPS) for $15 to just 5 accounts is too blatant a money-grab. Fortunately, I just use Virtualmin but, this comes at a time where I am trying to help my son get a web design business off the ground and he could have clients that will not be hosting-savvy and may want someone to getting them up and running. Of course, you would pass these cost over the customer but this could influence customer's buying decisions.
I can't imagine being a shared/reseller host right now. It has to be a waking nightmare to figure out what to do about this change.
What a way to ruin summer hosting biz.
By time those kids understand the new pricing structure, they will need to go back to school.
They're safe. The new pricing doesn't take effect until Sept 1 just when summer is over.
Cmon it’s not hard to read and understand it.
se pasaron de verga!
It's just hard to believe it.
It was expensive so far. It's even more expensive now. Very nice... cPanel is resource hungry, is not even secure, it is not stable, the directory structure is bad etc. Why to increase the price on this?
The next step is to add "per hour" next to all the prices.
As a developer I'm considering starting developing and supporting the current open source panels rather than the old outdated cPanel.
Math shouldn't be involved.
It is great, but it takes time.
Hope for the new competitor, Only competitor can stop Cpanel ! , otherwise Cpanel will increase the price again in again
What shocks me the most is that it seems like to me even some of the biggest and longest running cpanel customers (which they ironically label as "partners") seem blindsided by this.
I thought they teach concept of focus groups to get feedback about a new product or a major change to an existing product in Business 201 class?
Wasn't there a maintained free panel posted by the actual developer here some time ago? It might have had "open" in the name...
Oakely is trying to maximize profit, and that does not necessarily mean maximizing revenue.
Host Europe and other Oakley hosting companies should be chastised (like EIG is). Bad publicity is harmful to brands, and may be bad for profit, long term. The only hope is that the actuaries at Oakley didn't factor this in sufficiently in their calculations.
Oakley was within their rights to change the pricing structure, but is it ethical?
If anyone from Oakley is reading this, FU.
First step: review your licenses.
Any license left due to failed disabling automation or forgot to be manually deleted?
cPanel is just making a Benjamin less per month from us.
How many bucks are you going to take out of cPanel's revenue today?
Review your licenses!
Ethical? It's capitalism. And "free market".
If you charge more, you're "robbing" your clients, if you charge less, you're "robbing" your kids. Either way - someone gets "robbed". It's not ethical. It's destroying the planet. Most of the world's population is living in poverty. But no single company can change that - all they can do is make profit for themselves, their friends and families.
Not saying I like what they did. Not saying I'd do the same. But it is reasonable for a company to look into maximizing their profits.
We are also going to ditch cPanel in next 1-2 months, still need to test Cloudlinux etc... with Direct Admin
If you are a developer with any interest in this particular industry, I highly encourage you to work on something, follow a development project, report bugs or contribute in any way possible.
The only way to win against this monopoly is competition and competition isn't going to reign supreme without the knowledge and feedback from devs who actually CARE.
There may be cPanel Devs that actually care, but their puppet masters do not which is why healthy alternatives need to be worked on.
YAp many with custom panels are laughing now.
I wonder how the billing systems landscape will be.
Maybe, as long as it not a shit one like CWP.
lol
My memory might be failing as I dont recall clearly that moment. But what I remember is that their repo got hacked and in the end people had to disable the vestacp service, or something among those lines. I think you were very aware of it.
If it's the most recent incident then yeah, it was their repo was hacked but it wasn't running VestaCP so it's not really an indication of their software being insecure.
It's free market. They've bought up a decent competitor (Plesk) and figured they'd pull this.
It will be a while if anyone can come up with something that's close to Cpanel. You may be willing to switch but I am not sure customers will want to since they wouldn't care about your circumstances.