12-24-2020, 11:24 PM
Thanks for letting us know @xdude. I picked up on this through Gigarocket of course as that meant the end of free shared hosting there - or better put - the last straw that broke the Giga shared hosting camel's back.
cPanel is definitely pricing themselves out of the market. I don't even know whether it's really that justified. The Panel is good, put is it THAT good? It has many imperfections. For starters because of it being around for so long, there are so many tools in the Panel that shouldn't be there any longer or should be straightened out and retooled. It makes it heavy to install, not so easy to navigate for beginners. For me any panel that requires tutorials for one to have an understanding how to use it, is not a user-friendly panel. I didn't even like cPanel's Support Forum that much.
So at the price it was before 2019, I think the price for a cPanel License was justified. But now I think it's crazy. I really sincerely hope people will move away from cPanel. So yes, DirectAdmin is probably an alternative, but why go from one monopoly to another, as DirectAdmin is a bit clumsy and also needs plenty of straightening out. I personally really like CyberPanel for a viable alternative. And it can be free as well as paid. So yes, DirectAdmin because it is there. But maybe we need to dig deeper and do better. I've done the DirectAdmin learning curve, and complicated comes to mind. One has to jump over a few hurdles first before it can be relied upon similarly to cpanel. In the meanwhile there may be better solutions available. And one should probably keep looking around to make sure we're not turned into a slave of the next panel that may move in a similar greedy direction.
cPanel is definitely pricing themselves out of the market. I don't even know whether it's really that justified. The Panel is good, put is it THAT good? It has many imperfections. For starters because of it being around for so long, there are so many tools in the Panel that shouldn't be there any longer or should be straightened out and retooled. It makes it heavy to install, not so easy to navigate for beginners. For me any panel that requires tutorials for one to have an understanding how to use it, is not a user-friendly panel. I didn't even like cPanel's Support Forum that much.
So at the price it was before 2019, I think the price for a cPanel License was justified. But now I think it's crazy. I really sincerely hope people will move away from cPanel. So yes, DirectAdmin is probably an alternative, but why go from one monopoly to another, as DirectAdmin is a bit clumsy and also needs plenty of straightening out. I personally really like CyberPanel for a viable alternative. And it can be free as well as paid. So yes, DirectAdmin because it is there. But maybe we need to dig deeper and do better. I've done the DirectAdmin learning curve, and complicated comes to mind. One has to jump over a few hurdles first before it can be relied upon similarly to cpanel. In the meanwhile there may be better solutions available. And one should probably keep looking around to make sure we're not turned into a slave of the next panel that may move in a similar greedy direction.