cPanel has shaken the web hosting community with its recent price rise announcement. They have changed its pricing model from a per server pricing to a per account model.
So if you’re a cPanel partner and were paying $11 per cPanel license for each server and running 1,000 websites, you’ll now have to pay $122. That’s approximately 1000% price rise!
According to cPanel’s new pricing, here’s the breakup for 1000 websites :
- $32 for 100 accounts
- $0.1 each for 900 accounts
The “Not So Acceptable” New Pricing
The pricing is different depending upon the number of accounts. The price for the end user is comparatively higher than the cPanel partners.
General Pricing
- For 5 accounts – $20/month
- For 30 accounts – $30/month
- For 100 accounts – $45/month + $0.20 for each additional account
You can find more information about the latest pricing here.
cPanel Partner Pricing
- For 5 accounts – $12.50/month
- For 30 accounts – $17.50/month
- For 100 accounts – $32/month + $0.10 for each additional account
cPanel Pricing: New vs Old
People are criticizing cPanel for rolling out the new pricing model. Let’s see the old and new pricing of cPanel:
- cPanel Pricing Earlier
Before it was simply VPS and dedicated pricing.
- Latest cPanel Pricing
The new pricing will not make a huge difference to people under 5 Accounts. However, as the accounts increase, cPanel will cost more than the server itself.
Major Impact on Web Hosting Community
Over the years, people have relied on cPanel for managing their sites.
cPanel’s popularity is because of its integration with Softaculous, LiteSpeed, PHP Selector, JetBackup, CageFS, CloudLinux, Imunify360, and much more. This has helped cPanel become faster, reliable, secure, and feature-rich.
This price increase seems to be a nonstrategic roll out and cPanel has faced major backlash from the web-hosting community!
1. End-Users
While servers with a single account can go for cPanel solo, and servers with under 5 accounts still get the same price, the overall price for end-user is comparatively higher for servers having more than 5 accounts.
2. Shared Hosting Providers or Resellers
The worst affected of the whole lot. Mostly, a shared hosting company will run around 1000 websites on a single VM with the $11/mo cPanel VM license. After the new changes come into effect, their cPanel license costs will rise to $122/mo! That’s a whopping 1000% increase and almost equivalent to their infrastructure or server costs
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