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It's time to make your own panel.
I moved from Cpanel to Directadmin.
Do we have any info what is the price ?
That's the problem I brought up. Webhosting panels are basically "solved". At this point both DirectAdmin & cPanel are grasping at what ideas they can add to keep themselves busy.
If you go through the DirectAdmin changelog the majority of their work these days is just version updates and some spit/shine. The only recent project they did was the autoSSL rework and its caused more issues than solved.
Francisco
15% minimum, but i think 30% is possible. I see this being the push to get over the $0.50/account hump.
Francisco
Since last year i dont even read whmcs & cpanel price increase email
@HostDZire has accepted the fate as described by master oogway 😅😁 its just a gift from cpanel every year....
The architecture of both cPanel and DirectAdmin feel (and probably are) quite old, and there is definitely room for improvement there.
For example, the fact that CloudLinux is still needed on top of both to unlock basic features such as PHP extension/version selection is a bit crazy to me.
The UIs are also really not inuitive to use if you are new to the shared website hosting space, and they aren't built to handle advanced/modern web applications (e.g., those based on Next.JS or similar frameworks).
I feel like Enhance.com is the closest thing we have to a modern website hosting control panel.
Isn't the big issue compatibility of backups? If you've got a thousand hosts all "writing" their own control panel, it becomes impossible to migrate between hosts. They'll struggle to offer free inbound migrations, and savvy clients will anticipate that they'll be locked in (have to move everything manually) when the time comes to switch.
Have any of these custom panels got a backup format that is 100% compatible with cPanel - both for backups and restores?
Exactly.
Enhance is a different beast than cPanel/DirectAdmin, but if you're wanting something akin to a DA/CP experience, then its solved.
Cloudlinux is mostly upstream'd into the kernel these days. Backuply or whatever its called does much of what Jetbackup does using Restic and they built that within a couple months or less.
I dunno. Its a hard sell to keep eating these hikes for no reason when we know they've got Claude handling ~everything anyway. They're using Claude for much of WHMCS' development too.
Francisco
Maybe they just want to milk their customers for whatever is left, knowing it will be replaced by open-source one day.
Everyone can build their panel. But none wants responsibility for hack which will occure latter
. No one was fired by using cpanel or directadmin.
Best of luck in building and maintaining your panel.
Yep, it'll be a vicious circle. Prices get jacked, more users flea to DirectAdmin/Opensource/in-house. Prices get jacked further to make up for that loss of revenue, and even more users will look to move.
For what its worth DirectAdmin is still affordable and at the moment claim to have no interest in hiking rates.
Francisco
yes you are a big company with timely compromises and usual suspension for forced vps reinstall
you may even dont read the os updates and upgrades
That is a good approach from DirectAdmin, because it won't force customers away. This way they keep their customers and gain trust for now.
Sarcasm is definitely easier than security.
I asked WHMCS when the next WebPros mandated price increase was, they did not want to share unfortunately.
"I was on WHMCS, but the price hikes pushed me over to Paymenter. Since it's built on Laravel, I just created custom modules to rebuild all the features I had before."
To be fair this has been the case since the beginning. DirectAdmin has their converter, but cPanel doesn't. cPanel's own Plesk importer is crap at best, broken at worst, and I have no idea if their DirectAdmin importer works.
People have used Softaculous and Jetbackup to make things somewhat portable which is cool, but no, I wouldn't expect any of these portals to support packing a DA/CP compatable backup.
Francisco
corepanel: https://www.corepanel.net/docs/backups/export-cpanel/
CorePanel supports importing and exporting to cPanel.
For sure. But where you've got two or three market leading panels in use by 99% of shared hosting providers, you've got say 25% of the hosting market into which you can easily transfer if your needs change or the provider goes south. Any panel that has only one or two providers using it, you are pretty much locking yourself in.
There should be a universal template we can all download and default apply "don't be sorry, don't say "my bad", and terminate yourself if you ever say "final boss".
That was last year with language models. Current OpenAI and Anthropic reasoning models don't apologize the way older models did.
I added dark mode btw.. you can check it on the demo.
Gemini, multiple times in 2026.
And yes, they certainly still do apologize when you have to correct it.
Looks like the price hike email comes in the morning. I got an email from one of their VPs trying to get us to resell some of their other licenses/products. They mentioned Oct 8th as the price hike day.
My bet is they cross the $0.50/m rubicon.
Francisco
Get to selling those licenses. Can't you think of the CEO?
Have they released the pricing updates yet? Seems a long time between the I'm sorry email and then the nailing email.
I would expect it in 6 to 8 hours, basically first thing in the morning, Texas time.
Francisco
Ah thanks, I was replying on my mobile and missed your message. Be interesting to see what they do.