Domains.co.za has\u00a0informed clients that it will be increasing its hosting prices, thanks to a big change Oakley Capital made to its licensing model for cPanel.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis has caused our cPanel Licensing to be dramatically increased \u2014\u00a0by 350%,\u201d said MD and owner of Domains.co.za, Wayne Diamond, in an e-mail to clients.<\/p>\n
\u201cPreviously, a hosting provider like ourselves could buy a cPanel License per server, which allowed for unlimited cPanel accounts on a server,\u201d Diamond explained.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe new cPanel licensing pricing model has been completely changed from per server to a per-account basis.\u201d<\/p>\n
cPanel announced<\/a><\/strong> the change to its licensing model on 27 June, and its new prices are set to take effect from 1 September.<\/p>\n \u201cAll licenses purchased or renewed after today [27 June] will use our new pricing and licensing structure,\u201d cPanel said.<\/p>\n \u201cAll monthly licenses will remain under the old structure until September 1st, at which time they will be automatically converted to the account-based package that is most appropriate for that specific server.\u201d<\/p>\n cPanel\u2019s prices used to be structured as follows:<\/p>\n The acronym VPS refers to \u201cvirtual private server\u201d and it is this product that was hit hardest by the pricing changes.<\/p>\n From 27 June, cPanel has changed its product tiers<\/a><\/strong> to the following:<\/p>\n cPanel\u2019s new \u201cmetal\u201d classification is comparable to its former \u201cDedicated\u201d license.<\/p>\n Domains.co.za is not the only hosting provider balking at the price increase. Italian web host SonicFast said on the day that the news broke that it was considering alternative control panel software.<\/p>\n \u201cDue to the 800%+ price increase from @cPanel we are considering the migration to DirectAdmin at a significantly less cost. Tomorrow updates will follow. I hope @cPanel reconsider the disproportionate price increase,\u201d the company posted<\/a><\/strong> on Twitter.<\/p>\n On 10 July, SonicFast changed<\/a><\/strong> its tune: \u201cAs following of our cPanel situation, we decided to keep using cPanel at the moment. The reseller plans have been limited by sub-accounts number.\u201d<\/p>\n While the cPanel price hike was the catalyst, Diamond said that it was due to several factors that Domains.co.za had no choice but to increase its fees.<\/p>\n \u201cAdditional to the current massive cPanel price increase, we have, over the past 2 months, also received a price increase from both our data centre provider and Eskom power.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cDomains.co.za has tried to carry the costs over the past two months as much as possible, however, we have no choice but to increase our pricing. The majority of our products are directly related to cPanel, data centre, and power\u201d.<\/p>\n Its domain pricing remains mostly unchanged, but other than that, all Domains.co.za packages will be affected, said Diamond.<\/p>\n He said that this includes any past promotions or specials, and a few of their older promotional services may even be deprecated.<\/p>\n Unfortunately, the new cPanel prices will have a far greater impact on Domains.co.za web hosting resellers, as well as cloud and VPS customers.<\/p>\n \u201cThe pricing for unlimited cPanel accounts is gone and new account limits on the licences need to be imposed. The hosting industry as a whole has never based their business model on a limitation of cPanel accounts or a constantly escalating cost the more customers you bring onto cPanel,\u201d Diamond said.<\/p>\n \u201cThis change will affect the way in which you cost and price your solutions to your customers, as well as change the way you do business from hereon.\u201d<\/p>\n For the Cloud and VPS customers who are using cPanel, there will be cPanel licenses for 5 (R230), 30 (R320) and 50 (R460) cPanel accounts.<\/p>\n For the larger providers, there will be a base licence cost of R590 for 100 cPanel accounts, and a cost of R100 for each additional 50 cPanel accounts thereafter.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Domains.co.za Sales Team will be in contact with all our Resellers and cloud \/ VPS customers who are using cPanel licensing, on an individual basis, and they will discuss your pricing,\u201d said Diamond.<\/p>\n \u201cWe can assure you that we have done everything possible to minimise the impact on our clients.\u201d<\/p>\n Price increases on all affected Domains.co.za services will kick in from its scheduled billing run on 22 August 2019.<\/p>\n Any new services purchased or product upgrades performed will reflect the new pricing with immediate effect.<\/p>\n Domains.co.za has\u00a0informed clients that it will be increasing its hosting prices, thanks to a big change Oakley Capital made to its licensing model for cPanel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":127430,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[60249,26624,35,60251,26626],"class_list":["post-314927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cloud-hosting","tag-cpanel","tag-domains-co-za","tag-headline","tag-oakley-capital","tag-wayne-diamond"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314927"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314927"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":315047,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314927\/revisions\/315047"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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cPanel entrenched<\/h3>\n
Domains.co.za price increase<\/h3>\n
Resellers, cloud, and VPS clients affected most of all<\/h3>\n
When the price increase will take effect<\/h3>\n
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