Another cPanel Price Increase

[Cam]

If you didn't see your email, the cost of cPanel has gone up yet again, starting at the beginning of 2024.

Here is the new pricing structure for 2024:



Here's a topic discussing the increase over at cPanel's support forum: https://forums.cpanel.net/threads/new-cpanel-pricing-end-of-2023.714301/

It's wild seeing just how much pricing has changed. It was sooooo cheap in 2018, but that's long gone now.

 

[Smokey]

Wonder if more hosting providers will be moving away from Cpnael in favor of a cheaper solution such as DirectAdmin?

 

[Cam]

Wonder if more hosting providers will be moving away from Cpnael in favor of a cheaper solution such as DirectAdmin?

They're definitely pricing a lot of folks out. The days of shared web hosting accounts (with cPanel) being a couple dollars a month seems to be behind us. Hopefully this is more ammunition for a competitor to rise. I don't personally care for DirectAdmin though.

 

[Smokey]

The issue I think will be, hosting providers will just pass the price increase onto their customers, and it'll become more viable to go with VPS or dedicated hosting vs shared soon. Which is sad. I pay about $75/yr for my hosting on shared and if the price goes up, I might have to consider upgrading to a different plan.

 

[PGen98]

Stop it, cPanel. As a cPanel casualty myself, DirectAdmin sucks!

 

[WebHostVoice]

This is truly burdensome. Once again, we have to raise prices and inform our customers about the changes.

 

[Cam]

This is truly burdensome. Once again, we have to raise prices and inform our customers about the changes.

That's certainly understandable.

As someone who has been shopping around looking at web hosts, it's crazy how many web hosts are no longer offering cPanel by default. For the most, I'm seeing that it's something else (such as Direct Admin), and then you can pay a fee to add cPanel. It's a major change in the market. At the rate we're going, cPanel probably won't be the standard down the road.

 

[Mike30]

cPanel is making room for competitors as @Sir Camsta mentioned.