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cPanel Price Increase Bottom Line Impact

In preparation of writing this article, I read comments from the cPanel FaceBook reviews, Reddit and on the web hosting discord server linked off Reddit that consists of small and big web hosting provider staff and business owners. Majority of cPanel users have strongly indicated that the price will negatively affect their business by hurting their bottom line in increased server licensing costs.

Before the pricing structure changes, you purchased a VPS license for around USD 15.00. Enabling you to host an unlimited amount of cPanel accounts on one VPS. Thus this which meant for web-host providers who could charge much lower costs per account.

The result encouraged cPanel users to have scenarios such as one site per cPanel account rather than using ‘addon domains’ feature within the user account to add additional sites.

Now, cPanel price increase has an entry-level price of around USD 15.00 for one cPanel account and pricing after 100 cPanel accounts have an added cost per every account added. Meaning for the bigger hosts that have thousands of cPanel accounts on one server has reported having more than 400% increases in their cPanel licensing.

Web hosts generally won’t reveal customer numbers and servers that they own so the actual statistics is complete speculation. But this is clear that this cPanel price increase hurts more significant web host providers than smaller hosts.

cPanel price increase has already got top providers migrating away from cPanel.

SiteGround has posted saying that they are migrating to their control panel solution. Although SiteGround has announced that they have been working on this change for three years, it could be speculated that development of this change has been escalated recently.

No one would blame SiteGround for wanting to migrate as they are considered a respectable web hosting provider, and we at WebJex support SiteGround’s mission to be able to provide secure web hosting to website owners.

Other hosts have publicly posted company blog posts stating their disapproval of the price increased, and some have informed their customers that they will be facing price increases and that they regret being put in the situation where they have to consider charging not-for-profit organisations for web hosting services.

VentraIP has discontinued its free hosting plans and encouraged its users to contact the company to find a solution to minimise the impact.

Ramifications of the cPanel price hike

cPanel migration done incorrectly could lead to security issues

Although there are tools out there to help migrate cPanel accounts from a cPanel server to a non-cPanel server by using 3rd party scripts, these scripts may break websites as different control panels restrict different settings, work differently and cPanel to its credit is a very reliable and redundant system and may fix problems automatically routinely that other software doesn’t have the same abilities.

For example, consider the following scenario. An extensive website has a poorly coded script that uses a lot of resources to process, but the site owner isn’t aware that this script is a resource hogger because of the way cPanel processes and prioritises the runtime of said script. cPanel could have a level of optimisation on the host level that allows the script to run because it is identified as being a safe script. This same script running on a non-cPanel server could be stopped from running and therefore not being able to complete correctly. This may have unintended consequences.

cPanel also updates their own software and add new features which need to be considered in future migration scripts, so it is more likely than unlikely that there will be problems for site owners who are forced to migrate their services over to a new control panel. Just like there is in any software open source or closed source, there are always bugs being found in software and even the most popular migration tools.

cPanel could lose thousands of customers

As there are reports of hosts migrating away from cPanel, this would no doubt have a ripple effect on the company’s operations, and instead of increasing their profits it may have the opposite effect and force the company to make cutbacks in the long term. Although this is simply speculation at this point, the possibility needs to be considered if cPanel will be a future-proof web hosting control panel for the following decades.

However, the cPanel pricing increase price may push the bigger hosts out, but newer hosts may thrive as they are least impacted by these changes and may only have <$100 added monthly expense to their actual costs. This means that the expected revenue from this price increase may not increase company profits by the huge margins as expected, but cPanel will profit from smaller hosts that continue to use cPanel and grow their business on the new pricing structure.

cPanel will become a premium hosting solution rather than the industry standard

cPanel has been the most reliable and most sought control panel by users looking for a control panel to help manage their site. It’s also considered easy to use by most standards compared to other control panes, and small businesses may struggle to adapt to different terminology within control panels if they were dropped into a separate control panel overnight. This delay may cause customers to switch to more expensive solutions like website builder providers out of frustration of the ‘mess around’ they have endured by their host and will lose confidence in selecting a cPanel host out of fear they may cease to use cPanel in the future.

cPanel hosting, as a result, would be considered a premium choice over other less reputable control panel software. This premium choice comes at a premium price to users who wish to stay with cPanel.

WebJex will remain to provide Australian cPanel Hosting

cPanel will be an option for shared hosting, and we will invest in an alternative control panel to be able to offer more choices to our customers who don’t specifically want to use cPanel as a way to reduce our customer’s account costs.

cPanel hosting costs will be revised in the next week, but the increase will be minimal as we consider ourselves a smaller host and we are not impacted like bigger hosts.

However, we stand with our competitors, industry partners in sharing our mutual disappointment with the cPanel pricing increase, and we hope that cPanel makes some changes to reduce the cost impact on users. We have reached out to cPanel with constructive feedback, and they have acknowledged that our feedback will be collected.

We still love and trust cPanel, but we are bitter towards the company.

We still love cPanel, and this blog post was written to highlight the challenges created by this change but our trust towards cPanel as a company has taken a toll. WebJex found out about the price increase through reading an influx of negative reviews about cPanel on the official facebook page. Since then the reviews section has been removed off the page due to complaints of the cPanel pricing increase.

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cPanel Pricing Increase & What It Means For You

Maybe you are a web designer or developer or another type of web professionals, and you’ve already got some clients under your business. Maybe you’re a tech graduate instead, and you’re looking to get into an industry with huge potential?

Whether you’re starting up a new web hosting business or your hosting as an extra added service as part of your offering, then you may benefit in using reseller hosting for simplicity sake and also to potentially earn extra income without the hard work involved in setting up your own web servers.

So exactly what is reseller hosting well in a nutshell?

If you’ve got customers that need hosting services, you can purchase a bulk amount of Hosting space and then reset it onto them but a healthy profit. It’s a great way to add an additional recurring revenue stream to your business, but what’s really great is that you have zero upfront cost to invest in expensive infrastructures like servers or software licenses. You get access to a special cPanel admin area called WHM which stands for web host manager, and from here you have complete control over your customer’s accounts.

What can a reseller account do?

You can do things such as create plans, create customer accounts. You can give users particular admin rights. So you have all of the control that you would have with an actual server. But at a fraction of the cost, each of your customers gets their own unique cPanel control panel login, there’s no mention of us visually on the control panel so that way your customers think that it’s your server your is a completely white label which gives you the confidence to offer cPanel to your clients without having to juggle several websites on a single user account and never being able to trust your clients with the password in fear of exposing sensitive information about your other clients to your client.

The key difference between shared hosting and reseller hosting it’s your customers and your customers get their own unique cpanel login. This means that they can self manage look after themselves completely end to end this means that they’re not contacting every five minutes to set up a new email account or reset a password or whatever.

One of the really neat features is that you can create plans like bronze silver and gold that way you can offer plans for clients who are prepared to pay more, so that way you have something for everyone one thing you do need to be aware of is that you need to provide first-line support for your customers. We are, of course, we are there in the background to help, and we can fix all of the issues that do arise if you do need any help, but in the first instance, your customers will contact you for initial support.

However, if things you can even start to automate your hosting business, you can use an automated billing platform like WHMCS which automates the billing and the administration and provisioning of your hosting accounts under your reseller account. So there you have it. That’s a quick overview of reseller hosting.

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What is Cpanel, and why does it exist?

cPanel exists for one reason and only one purpose, and that’s to provide reliable automation software for web hosting providers like WebJex. cPanel offers very economical web hosting software that makes web hosting accessible and easy to use to a vast audience. Some might say that even your grandma could learn how to use it.
cPanel builds their software primarily for web hosting companies powerlifting offer economical web hosting services to provide cost-effective hosting for their customers.

Some people might go as far as to say that they empower the world to be able to sell cheap web hosting. But make no mistake! cPanel and WHM provide nothing short of an actual superior web hosting automation experience for web hosting providers and website owners.

20% of websites on the internet use cPanel

Did you know that 20% of websites rely on Cpanel and WHM? cPanel provides such things as e-commerce company website personal blogs of the application hosted by making this process super-efficient 60 seconds or less it cuts down on the costs of doing business. This is enabling people globally to have the little gold website for a few dollars a year you get inexpensive hosting better service and a common interface regardless of which hosting provider you use that uses cPanel.

cPanel could be summarised as a tool that allows almost anyone to run a hosting company as simple as few button presses and in a few clicks. cPanel has turned a once complicated and a very expensive process into what is considered now as simple standard.

cPanel is a program that runs on Linux based web hosting servers. It’s currently the industry standard, and it’s used by most web hosting companies out there. Now. It’s designed to make managing your web hosting account much easier by using a graphical interface with lots of different tools in it.

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Why get a Sydney VPS?

Having a VPS located in Sydney can dramatically increase your response times to the server. What this means if you have a website located in Sydney and your business is solely based within Australia, your site users will be able to load your webpages quicker. Also in addition to this if you are running your site content on a CDN like CloudFlare the distance for the cache to be loaded from CloudFlare’s servers in Australia is shorter which means the CloudFlare’s cache will cache quicker from the VPS which means further increase in performance.

If your website is hosted overseas, you can benefit from having a node hosted in different regions around the world which offers a layer of redundancy and performance increase, especially if your site is also utilising the CloudFlare network for caching.

Upgrading from shared hosting to a Sydney VPS

If you are currently hosting on a shared hosting environment, you may benefit from upgrading to a VPS. This will add a layer of security and make sure other sites traffics hosted on the same server isn’t causing your site to perform less; this is known as the bad neighbourhood effect.

You can run your own applications on a Sydney VPS such as MineCraft, TeamSpeak and manage your own specific requirements.

The primary advantage of running a VPS is the ability to run your own applications and software. For example, if you want to run your own private mail server, you have the flexibility to do that. Some people use VPS’s as a backup solution for their business to securely backup files to a remote location as an additional safety measure against the potential risks of fires.

A VPS also is ‘always on’ so if you need to have access to files located on an office premise you could install a VPN service on your VPS and whitelist your IP address on your secure network and access work-sensitive data remotely through your own VPN that you host and manage yourself. The advantage of this is that you can integrate your own privacy policy and record and log usage at your discretion. A VPS can be a tool used to help run software that requires to be online 24/7 and helps decrease your power bill by migrating that service to a VPS. In fact, you could make your money back if you bought a VPS for your business in the power saving costs. Let’s not forget that hosting a Sydney VPS allows you to keep your data within Australia and increases your security compliance with Australian privacy laws. This benefit alone allows you to also become relevant in Australian search results as it does help to have your website hosted on the same country that the business operates in. 

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