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Venture Capitalists killing businesses since the 90s
Not sure it was intentional to force out all small businesses but there was more of an angle to this than just fucking hosts over. They certainly want to move cPanel away from the mainstream, one glove fits all type of approach.
I can see many beneficial reasons for doing so, from their point of view. Revenue is certainly well up there. That people here seem to think this will not increase revenue can't see the wood for the trees.
So it does in some ways seem like an intentional shock implementation of the change.
They knew the outcry that would come so instead of announcing the change beforehand then having to deal with that and still do it which then causes a further outcry of them not listening, they just did it. I can understand why if that is what they did.
No. For a company as cPanel the shared marked is quite important to keep they relevancy. Big hosts may at the beggining keep using cPanel but once small hosts switch to different software they will introduce new packages with those panels and a cheaper price, clients will slowly choose the new panel because of the price and cPanel will slowly die.
I remember back in the day when cPanel and DirectAdmin were as popular, most hosts had both panels installed and you could choose either DirectAdmin or cPanel. cPanel ended up winning.
I'm not so sure. The clientele that buy and use EIG, NameCheap, GoDaddy, etc. shared hosting don't really strike me as the type of people to do market research. They'll just go for the big brands that do a lot of advertising.
Just do Managed Wordpress Hosting. Thats more than half the internet. No need for panels.
Centminmod I heard is pretty good.
I would say that market share is more important than revenue for a software company. This price change was a risk they hope will pay off. While a massive price increase for larger hosts can easily be absorbed, it's also a trigger for share holders and management to ask if they can replace it with something in-house for cheaper. All it takes is for 1 or 2 of the industry leaders to drop cPanel for them to impact cPanel's revenue. Not to mention if all of the smaller hosts jump to a different panel, that leaves a good portion of clients using a control panel that isn't cPanel. Once clients start accepting something other than cPanel there's little reason for larger hosts to continue paying those prices for it if clients will pay the same amount for a shared hosting plan using a control panel that's a fraction of the price.
I never thought of DirectAdmin, but after I got my slice I haven't looked back. Here are a couple screenshots:
https://imgur.com/a/ClbFYdZ
So far, it's working quite nicely. If anyone wants to test the panel out, let me know and I can get you on.
I would really love to try DA out. I just want to see how the panel works so li!e 10MB of storage and BW with 1 domain is fine
How good is DA and ISPConfig at remote backup handeling without plugins?
DirectAdmin has an option to use OpenLiteSpeed as a webserver, damn, not only cheaper than cPanel but saving LiteSpeed license costs and with unlimited cores
Here's a screenshot of the default options:
DirectAdmin also has included Let's Encrypt support:
As well as email features and RoundCube web mail.
Neat. How are you liking DA?
Francisco
So DA was shunned when cPanel was at its old pricing, but now DA is the best thing since sliced bread and is a real competitor to cPanel?
I've been using it for about a month on AFreeCloud for all of my personal websites and so far it's been great. I really like the new skin a lot better than cPanel and so far I haven't run into anything I can't do in DA that I could do in cPanel. I do hate that I need a second DirectAdmin license if I want to setup a DNS cluster... wait a minute... you offer free DA licenses... DNS cluster problem solved!
Thanks for the business sir. I'll return the favor in kind soon enough.
Francisco
DA was basically unusable by me until they released their new skin a few months back. I never even tried their panel until 2 months ago and I quickly moved all of my personal sites over to it from my cPanel server. Given the option of free cPanel hosting or free DA hosting I'll pick DA every time now.
DA does look decent with that skin.
But, But I thought real men use the command line- whats all this stuff about a panel
Indeed, real men use no control panel.
Real men also do not browse the internet.
Real men also do not live in the city, strictly off-grid.
Real men also do not read, shouting only.
DA is a great panel. have been using that for my personal and friends sites for many years. Since I am not in the hosting business, DA works out well enough for me. cPanel/WHM is just overrated and overpriced, but as many stated its the users preferred choice of due to ease in GUI operations. DA is reasonable, stable and less resource hog though would need some command based skills but most aspect of Administrations are GUI based. I am sure most of you have technical knowledge to handle DA efficiently with ease. Mark & Martynas @ DA has been great to deal with.
When IPv4 allocations ending, they thought it was the end.
When WHMCS pricing went up, we were assured of lasting damage.
Now cpanel pricing goes up, the end is nigh.
Tune in tomorrow for the next installment of "whats wrecking the hosting industry"
end is nah
Note that OpenLiteSpeed is missing some features of the Enterprise ListSpeed Webserver.
See: https://www.litespeedtech.com/products/litespeed-web-server/editions
I got bit by the lack of Server Side Includes in OpenLiteSpeed.
Nah... All the money will go to the Organization of Personal Profit.
I think we shouldn't make the same mistake again.
Since we are all moving to another panel we should move to an open source panel not to a paid one, because the same problem maybe repeated later.
I've been using cPanel since 2014 and if I have to move to DirectAdmin then so be it. I'm not brand loyal if it means my costs go up.
It might actually benefit the industry as DirectAdmin would get the support it needs to build an even better control panel. It probably won't be held back from the slow updates that cPanel likes to do.
Why dont they just charge per megabyte storage being used and cpu cycle...
That would be better...
/s
Chinese will do this for 10 usd and oh yeah with same quality as claimed by apple
Only problem with DA is the mind bending root > Reseller > user flow inside the root control panel.