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October 2023 update: cPanel, WHMCS and Plesk prices are all being raised again, starting Jan 2024. That’s the 4th year in a row cPanel prices have gone up. Here is more information about the cPanel price increase

Ever since cPanel was acquired by venture capitalists, we’ve seen prices raised regularly. The latest round of increases follow similar hikes over the last three years, and are due to take place from December 16th, 2022.

Since 2018, cPanel prices have more than tripled for it’s users.

An admin on the cPanel forum, Coursevector, offered this example for a server with 120 accounts on it:

• Originally: $20/month
• Sept 2019: $49/month (+145% increase)
• Jan 2021: $54.50/month (+11.22% increase, or 172.5% from 2018)
• Jan 2022: $60.79/month (+11.54% increase, or +204% from 2018)
• Jan 2023: $67.79/month (+11.52% increase, or +239% from 2018)

While we understand that prices have to follow increased costs, are these surges excessive?

Users’ responses

As you’d expect, this didn’t go down well with users when the increases were announced in late September.

Here are some anonymised responses from the forum and Reddit:

cPanel increases again!? In the middle of a worldwide recession? Sorry, I’m finally done with this.

cPanel partner (NOC) on the cPanel forum

People need to switch away from this sinking ship.

Reddit user

Sickening. Instead of moving away at the last price increase, I stupidly stayed. God I hate these people.

Reddit user

…now we pay more for an ugly interface!

cPanel forum user

…and those are some of the more polite responses. 🙂

What are the price increases?

Here are the new prices for standard users:

Plan	2022	2023
cPanel Solo (1 account)	$15.99	$15.99
Admin (up to 5 cPanel accounts)	$24.99	$27.99
Pro (up to 30 cPanel accounts)	$35.99	$39.99
Premier (up to 100 cPanel accounts)	$53.99	$59.99
Bulk (every account over 100 cPanel accounts)	$0.34	$0.39

There’s been a 10-12% increase across all accounts, except Solo.

cPanel using a Network Operating Centre licence (PartnerNOC) – where they host clients on a dedicated server – will have to bear the burden of these price increases:

Plan	2022	2023
cPanel Solo (Cloud)	$7.70	$7.70
cPanel Solo (Metal)	$11.00	$11.00
Admin (up to 5 accounts)	$15.00	$16.50
Pro (up to 30 accounts)	$21.00	$23.00
Plus (up to 50 accounts)	$30.00	$33.00
Premier (Cloud) (up to 100 accounts)	$38.00	$43.00
Premier (Metal)	$38.00	$43.00
Premier Bulk (Cloud)	$0.20	$0.225
Premier Bulk (Metal)	$0.20	$0.225

Again, it represents increases of 10-13%, with the exception of single users. Price rises will be applied to existing users’ bills from 1 January 2023.

What can you do about it?

The obvious choice is moving to a hosting control panel like MyObvi8. Our control panel is free, and will always remain so.

It’s super-easy to move to MyObvi8. Our unique Migration Centre will move all your accounts over to Obvi8 without any hassle. It’s free and unlimited, so if you want to ‘test the water’ with a few sites before taking the plunge, you can. There are no limits on the number of sites you can transfer over.

You don’t have to contact our support team and make an appointment.

Just add your cPanel credentials to the Migration Centre, and in a few clicks, you can begin the migration. Files, databases and emails are transferred automatically. Of course, if you feel the need to contact our much-admired support team, you can! They’re available 24-7.
There will be no downtime and no chance of any data loss.

Moreover, MyObvi8 has been designed with users coming from legacy control panels like cPanel in mind. It will feel familiar, but more modern and user-friendly.

MyObvi8: built for performance

Another great reason to use MyObvi8 is that on our platform, you don’t have the same limits that are applied to cPanel hosting.

It’s the ‘magic’ that has made Obvi8 a rising leader in modern web hosting times that we are today. cPanel hosting is based around a single server, so it has to include limits on resources. Not so with MyObvi8 hosting.

Through our autoscaling technology, we’re able to respond to traffic spikes by offering a website the resources of entire multi-server platform. This isn’t possible with conventional cPanel hosting.

So your clients will see the benefit of you moving them to a more powerful platform. Their websites will perform better, have close-to-zero downtime, be more secure and you can offer more features than was previously available from hosting using cPanel.

MyObvi8: built for bulk

From its inception, MyObvi8 has been developed with bulk management of websites in mind, so it includes numerous time-saving tools. And unlike cPanel, it’s still receiving constant, practical feature updates that will help your business achieve more.

For example, a recent development was our WordPress Manager, which allows you to manage plugins, themes, users and much more across all the sites in your inventory from one page. No need to sign in to individual wp-admin pages anymore!

MyObvi8 is available on our Managed Hosting, WordPress and Web Hosting plans.

What if I want to stick with cPanel?

If you’re a user of one of our Self-Managed VPS, you can still carry on using cPanel to manage your hosting. However, we’ve had to increase our cPanel licence prices to reflect the changes:

Plan	2022	2023
cPanel Admin	£12.50	£19.99
cPanel Pro	£17.50	£24.99
cPanel Plus	£25	£34.99
cPanel Premier	£32.50	£44.99

Even so, these fees are less than if you went direct to cPanel.

If you want the power of a virtual private server to manage multiple sites, we’d highly recommend moving to one of our Managed VPS, that will include MyObvi8. Here’s why:

• Host Unlimited Websites & Apps – no ‘per site’ licence fees
• Expert Support 24 x 7
• FREE Automatic Backups
• FREE SSL Certificates
• Unlimited x 10 GB Mailboxes
• Unlimited MySQL Databases
• FREE Obvi8CDN & Web Acceleration Suite
• 80+ One Click Apps incl. WordPress, Magento, Laravel & more
• SSH and SFTP Access
• Unlimited PHP Workers
• PHP-FPM, PHP OPCache & php-ffmpeg
• NET Core, Django, NodeJS, Flask & Ruby on Rails
• Redis 6 & Elasticsearch
• Integrated Git Version Control
• 99.99% Uptime Guarantee

Beyond that, our servers are managed by our expert VPS team. So using them will remove much of the day-to-day routine tasks inherent to managing your own virtual private server.

Any questions?

We understand that it might be daunting to think about moving your website hosting business over to another provider. Even if it will save you money and give your clients a better service – we know it can seem like something you don’t have time for.

That’s what cPanel’s owners are hoping you’ll think. But it’s not difficult.

It is very easy to move to Obvi8. Whether that’s from cPanel or any other control panel, like Plesk or DirectAdmin.

So we’re more than willing to answer any questions by live chat, email or over the phone. You can contact us here or comment below.

If you’d prefer something a little more personal, you can even book a one-on-one demo with one of our experts.

We look forward to welcoming you to the Obvi8 family.