12-30-2020, 04:41 PM
Thing is cPanel is very popular product, and they know it. If you were to conduct a poll among web hosting users, most would vote for cPanel. The very fact that they are performing such price hikes is based off their assurance that they have an enormous user base, who will keep using their product.
Coming to the price aspect, free and smaller providers will definitely be affected, but the big providers with thousands of clients won't. All they have to do is raise their pricing by a few cents (maybe a dollar), and they have the surplus to pay to cPanel. Both the user and the provider are happy in this case, and considering users I guess hardly anyone would mind a bit increase in their monthly pricing once a while, and moreover, all of us hate to switch, so it won't be a bother.
If smaller companies switch to alternatives like DirectAdmin, and when they see a bigger name is providing cPanel for a few cents extra they'll naturally switch. Of course losing customers isn't what a small provider would want, and hence, they'll have to marginalize their profit and continue with cPanel, unless they wanna run out of business.
Coming to the price aspect, free and smaller providers will definitely be affected, but the big providers with thousands of clients won't. All they have to do is raise their pricing by a few cents (maybe a dollar), and they have the surplus to pay to cPanel. Both the user and the provider are happy in this case, and considering users I guess hardly anyone would mind a bit increase in their monthly pricing once a while, and moreover, all of us hate to switch, so it won't be a bother.
If smaller companies switch to alternatives like DirectAdmin, and when they see a bigger name is providing cPanel for a few cents extra they'll naturally switch. Of course losing customers isn't what a small provider would want, and hence, they'll have to marginalize their profit and continue with cPanel, unless they wanna run out of business.