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Enhance Control Panel Experience?
Looking for community feedback on Enhance Control Panel.
How is it regarding reliability, bugs, security, and overall suitability for WordPress hosting?
Would you recommend it for production use?
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We have close to 300 sites running around 6 servers using CPGuard. Super easy to move sites around and incremental backups are incredibly convenient.
It is good from my point of view. I have used it for likely 10 months good enough . I am not a provider but well .
Per account pricing is cpanel level red flag.
Not at all, per-account pricing is much lower than cPanel, costing $0.15 per account per month.
We. Love. It.
Yeah 15 cents per account, and no per-server cost. It's nice because the pricing model doesn't entice providers to focus on server density, Enhance actually works best in multi server setups (a backups server, a central control panel server, and then many hosting servers with webserver/db)... You can run a standby server setup to use in DR and doesn't cost a dime for the panel. DR with the backups system is a breeze, like 4 clicks and your sites are restoring.
It's a great panel for most hosting needs, though you do need more sysadmin skills than either cpanel/da. If only hosting a small number of sites you'd prolly wanna go with a simple DA server and call it good, or my personal fav just roll it manually, rsync manual backups to s3, easy and low overhead.
The Enhance community is very helpful and active, and the forum has a wealth of info. Go check it out. Lots of hosts with thousands of sites running it for years no problem.
It is if you offer shared hosting and want to host a large number of shared hosts in one machine. It easily becomes more expensive than CPanel in that case.
cPanel cost 4x more per account. It is more expensive than Enhance in any scenario.
Who’s stopping them to pull cPanel few years? Today it is 0.15 and tomorrow it may be 1.15.
cPanel says $69.99/mo up to 100 accounts, additional accounts $0.49 each.
How can that ever be cheaper than $0.15 per account?
Thank you for providing such valuable feedback.
If that's the case, no panel can guarantee the same price after ten years.
Could you please explain the math behind this?
Can you whitelabel this ? Change logo, URL ?
Yes, it is a fully whitelabel friendly panel.
Been using it since it's early days. Very happy although they are taking their time to add new features.
I like the look of it, and think another provider shaking up the market can only be a good thing. cPanel, and more widely webpros still have many hosting providers over a barrel. Only a challenger coming in and taking a decent chunk of the market can really drive change (although, whether that'll actually happen is probably still up for debate).
My only concern is the per account pricing. I appreciate it's only $0.15 per account right now, but that can (and will) increase.
Yes, it's very good to have competitors, at least from hosting provider point of view.
Typical cpanel setup is paired with CloudLinux, Jetbackups, Softaclouse, and imunify360, all of which are from different companies and can increase prices individually, whereas in Enhance you do not need such external softwares other than security software, so the overall enhance setup will be less expensive than cpanel in any case.
Who’s stopping them to pull cPanel few years? Today it is 0.15 and tomorrow it may be 1.15.
That's called revenue sharing model. It is evil by design as have no upper limit for greed. An ultimate method of commerce.
I don't believe that this panel has any chance to have decent customer base on market where revenue share is generally avoided as margins can be very low.
I've heard only good things about Enhance Control Panel and I'm thinking to use them in future for personal or even business projects.
True, less licensing and and less stuff to manage is worth something. That being said, as others have said, they could still do a "cPanel" and increase the per-account pricing.
I know and understand that good software costs money, but if I was to make the hypothetical move to enhance, the same anxiety around potential price increases would still exist (IMO).
Completely agree with this. I hope, and would love to see, enhance keep pricing low, but I honestly don't believe it'll happen. I have to think back, say a decade ago, where a newcomer to the market charging per account would immediately be shut down.
Just because cPanel are doing it, doesn't make it right.
As could anyone else. As I see it, competition is the only sure way to keep companies from doing a cPanel. If a company knows that there are competitors out there that can deliver the same functionality as their product but at a lower price, it will make them think twice before increasing prices. The only reason cPanel could do what they did (and still do) is lack of competition. With DirectAdmin growing and new panels popping up almost daily, they will not be able to do it for much longer.
With that mindset it would be impossible to use almost any commercial software. Price increases happen, there is no guarantee against it. Well, except for "lifetime" or owned licenses, but I think we all know how those have been handled by a lot of companies in recent years.
Switching to a different product because of price increases sends a strong signal to companies. It's a lot of work, yes, but if nobody's switching and they know it, why would they not increase prices?
I thought the mail was 20i resold, same panel does hosting why not use that?
per website hosting, seems horror.
tried it, had somehow worst performance and speed than with cpanel and directadmin witth the same hw stack and lsws, email limits impossible to force while keeping everything counted, s3 backups were totally broken, and much more.
but this was a long experience (launched a big cluster for enhance) to finally give up and move everything to DA.
Vendor lock-in will fix that.
We've been using Enhance for 2.5 years now. No issues, can't complain and customers love it.
True, and once again the fix is more alternatives.