UPDATE: Direct Admin Licenses are now free with all plans in any location over £5/m. Smaller VPS can purchase a standalone license for £5/m. Applicable for existing clients also.

Indeed, Have been happily moved on with DA many years ago. Although still have multiple lifetime cpanel license.

Well, DA is working on a "Lite" license (scheduled to be released for August) that is most likely gonna have the same functionality but probably be limited user/ram wise.

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out to be an early version of virtualizors WHMCS module haha.

Exchange-only license for office365? Mabe not the cheapest but better then most shared/mail hosting.

They can, and whmcs even makes it easy now. Though quite a reasonable expectation that they won't.

DA has had these lifetime license pricing for past 15yrs, when you consider the economics, its not sustainable to maintain updates and security patches free forever. Even cPanel got rid of their lifet

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DA had to get rid of the old lifetime license. If you have to question why, I am sorry for you.

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Anyway there's a lot of costs involved. I had to buy WHMCS, Solusvm, I had to hire some freelancers to do some custom work, buy a domain name and the list goes on and on and on.

Monthly and Yearly licenses came with Protection against price increase so who already got one will pay the same...

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how ever I got some clients on managed vps to which I provide licenses there will be the biggest hit in the prices I got to tell that clients which are with over 30 accounts (all are under 100) that i

HostMantis current reseller price is just enough to cover the cPanel license costs - calculate for yourself, don't take my word for it.

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