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You'll notice they'll lose nothing from this. LET hosts will quit using it. History shows LET isn't really the place sell to make a business thrive, with exceptions of course.
Example:
You have a $10/mo shared hosting subscription and it takes a 10% price hike per year.
That is less than a $1/mo increase first year.
Price per year: Pn=120×(1.1)n−1; # n=1..10.
Yearly price:
Year 1: 120 × 1.1⁰ = 120
Year 2: 120 × 1.1¹ = 132
Year 3: 120 × 1.1² = 145.2
Year 4: 120 × 1.1³ = 159.72
Year 5: 120 × 1.1⁴ ≈ 175.69
Year 6: 120 × 1.1⁵ ≈ 193.26
Year 7: 120 × 1.1⁶ ≈ 212.59
Year 8: 120 × 1.1⁷ ≈ 233.85
Year 9: 120 × 1.1⁸ ≈ 257.24
Year 10: 120 × 1.1⁹ ≈ 282.96
Total paid over 10 years ≈ $1,913
Constant price total = 120 × 10 = $1,200
Extra paid = 1,912.51 − 1,200 ≈ $713
Small price hikes on monthly subscriptions adds up over time.
Just enjoy. No critique, no anger. Pure enjoyment.
assuming 10% cPanel increases each year for 10 years AND assuming web hosting companies will actively increase their profit margins proportionally to the cPanel license increases
this won't be the case
Yes but at some point the final cost to the end user is so high that they will leave.
The margin will be the same with a higher final cost, so in the long run they will have less customers will the same margins, aka lower total profits.
Yeah, move to DA and have new problems everytime when there's update because they treat current versions more like bleeding edge. Recently they came up with a different CSS palette, ruining the evolution layout on older browsers, two versions ago they broke plugins, etc. Constant changes to the appearance and icons, which annoy users
cPanel is expensive but definitely more stable and trouble-free, and with my OVH license on the old CentOS 7, I also have extended support for the system itself and its updates, and I still pay around 15 euros for it
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cPanel Premier:
2023 $45.00/mo
2024 $49.99/mo (+11.1%)
2025 $65.99/mo (+32.0%)
2026 $69.99/mo (+6.1%)
At the same time, they have removed the discount for small certified partners with less than $2,000 in license spend and increased the discount from 10% to 16% for big certified partners.
So you might be right if you use a large certified cPanel partner.
But I would be surprised if the $69.99 price lasts the whole year.
Glad I’m not a startup with customers that demand cPanel.
Or they will dump the increasing factor, at some point.
Yes, if they are clever enough.
Yea I don't want to derail the whole cpanel sky is falling thing but it's definitely been interesting to watch play out here over the years, again and again.
I only got the one from Plesk, but I switched all the Plesk Licensing to @cplicensenet a while ago... The cPanel one, not yet... Honestly, I'm dreading it.
The "c" in cPanel stands for "costly".
the huge increase to the base license price is actually limiting their growth, because of this bigger hosts will try more to use less servers (i.e. bigger servers with more customers). Also fewer shared hosts with their own license will apear (they will use either a reseller plan or other software => less licenses sold).
Back in the day when cPanel unlimited licenses were like 15$/month (or even less) it was quite easy to start a small webhosting bussiness on a VPS and scale up, now with their pricing, nobody does this.
Basically, I think they didn't lose that many existing customers but totally tanked their growth potential.
They can go Jetbrains style, If you pay for a amount of time (1 year for jb), you get lifetime access to the latest version before your license expired
cPanel has become so expensive, rarely releases new features and in my opinion has regressed with their latest UI. There are much better options available, why still use cPanel?
There are plenty of ways.
I personally see a lack of intent from D.A. developers. They have the same f*cking bricky panel since ages, on which they change template colors once in a while, without any major improvement on its logic.
On the principle: If you can put a metal wire, it's a shame to put a bolt.
Agreed.
I recall how cPanel used to be in the past - a good and customer-centric company.
I had a problem that was my fault. Since it was very impactful due to a software problem, and despite the whole thing being my fault to begin with, it escalated all the way up, and Nick Koston himself called my cell phone, apologized for the inconvenience, and worked with me. That was back in 2012 or so, and I was impressed back then. I eventually ended up working at cPanel and met Nick and everyone there. Now... WebPros is just trying to suck money out of the customers in every way possible.
Honestly, I'm this 🤏🏼 close to just saying "F that" and looking for an alternative that works with CloudLinux.
Are any of these alternatives as well-established and "stable" as cPanel, and also work with CloudLinux?
Environment
CloudLinux OS
Solution
Dont forget HestiaCP - open source control panel.
Just released an update today: https://docs.directadmin.com/changelog/version-1.687.html
and two weeks ago: https://docs.directadmin.com/changelog/version-1.686.html
and a month ago: https://docs.directadmin.com/changelog/version-1.685.html
etc
Then I stand corrected. Thank you kindly!
Well established no, but if a product stagnates you need to look for alternatives. Not sure if I would call cPanel stable, it has just as many issues as other panels.
What do you think about Plesk or cPanel, wouldn't it be an option to replace cPanel?
WebPros also owns Plesk. In my opinion, it has some features that are better than cPanel in some ways. Regardless, it's WebPros, so the price gouging due to market monopoly is inevitable. Heck, I just got Plesk's email this morning saying prices are going up AGAIN.
And what this updates do is mainly fixes to things that were broken because of previous updates.
Oh and, of course, software version updates in custombuild (now with closed source).
For years, they haven't been able to decide whether they actually want to use packages or compile everything from scratch with that thing.
I don't have money to buy it, so is all good for me, they should increase by 500%.
Interworx is starting to look good, I must say. Does anyone here use it in production?
Isn't it going to be unsustainable after a point?
Why are they sooo expensive and it's not even all in one , need to buy 6 other licenses to make it better and secure
Webuzo maybe can be a good choice. but i didnt know about their security
This all makes sense if you are skeptical enough like me to think that the black market licenses are probably controlled by them too. Those purposely dodgy looking websites have existed for ages and it just makes no sense to me how Google or PayPal aren't interested in taking them down, there's no warning from webpros etc. Maybe its a tax free division for them where they can sell licenses without support and allows them to hike up the prices for the big corps