cPanel Price Increase and Migration

Web Hosting Providers around the globe have received a notification from cPanel the control panel provider that they will be increasing their pricing substantially and not provide unlimited accounts per licence either but charged per account going forward.

This news unfortunately means many smaller hosts will be forced to close business or alternatively increase their pricing or change hosting panel to accomodate the new changes.

You can read how web hosting providers around the globe feel about this aswell as South African providers on the following links:

• http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1770316
• http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1770449
• https://mybroadband.co.za/forum/threads/absurd-cpanel-license-price-increase.1034895/page-5

We've also written a blog article to provide more in-depth information on the situation.

• https://blog.hostking.co.za/cpanel-price-increase-what-are-the-options/

We have hence been in many discussions to try and solve this with an affordable solution.

As we believe most customers are familiar with the cPanel interface and would really not want to move to a panel that is not fully development to provide the same functionality that cPanel has to offer.

In doing so we may have to implement a few possible changes.

1. Web hosting pricing may increase by R10 for each plan.
2. Reseller Hosting packages may have to set limits to the amount of "accounts per server" or "accounts per package"
3. Managed cPanel VPS and Dedicated customers will get an option to stay on cPanel and pay a seperate bill for the number of accounts used also alternatively move to a different control panel. More info to follow.
4. Move hosting accounts to newer faster servers in a new rack in Data Center where we can consolidate more customers per server to save costs.

Doing the above will not affect your hosting only the slight increase in the plan.

Please Note #

Customers using Cloudflare or not using our default Name Server records on their domains will have to update the IP address as per email sent in seperate email before maintenace is performed.

99% of customers should be unaffected - for those with custom setups feel free to contact our support team for more information on the migration change.

We will also not be applying an Annual increase to your hosting packages to accommodate our customers.

Thank you for your understanding