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WetPi

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This is a question for small to medium VPS providers. Which control panel would you use, while keeping the costs as low as possible. 

Cpanel??

plesk???

Im offering plans at the £3,£5,£10,£30 price point, but down want to push costs up!! But to stay competitive i think you need a good control panel...

What do you think?
 
NetWatcher

NetWatcher

Member
Verified Provider
cPanel VPS license fee is $11/mo. (this is how much we have as cPanel Partner) 

So, you cannot offer plans including cPanel for such low fee. The best way to offer some license is to give best price you can for basic VPS fee and then make license fee as an addon. 

So who needs cPanel, Plesk, etc... He can choose it during purchase process.
 
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WetPi

New Member
yeah true.....

It seems most people prefer cpanel... i might look for a reseller now?

who do you think is the cheapest?
 
GIANT_CRAB

GIANT_CRAB

New Member
WetPi said:
yeah true.....

It seems most people prefer cpanel... i might look for a reseller now?

who do you think is the cheapest?
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Internal licenses from DC are usually the cheapest.

The list of (external license) distributors is available here - http://partnernoc.cpanel.net/partner_search?distributors=1

Licensepal would be the first to come into mind.

Sometimes, if you buy bulk licenses from these distributors, they'll give you a discount, you'll have to work out the pricing for yourself.
 
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KuJoe

KuJoe

Well-Known Member
Verified Provider
cPanel is your only real option if you want to offer shared hosting to non-technical people. The only clients I've found that don't need cPanel are the same clients that run their own panel on a VPS anyways.

Based on your pricing, you only need to sell 3 of your smallest plan to cover the monthly cost of an external cPanel license ($14.95) so don't skimp on your control panel.
 
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shinehost

New Member
Cpanel is the best option. For providers and for customers as well. As most of customers do familiar with it, And as providers we can easily transfer their data from old host to new one. 
 
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perennate

New Member
Verified Provider
WetPi said:
This is a question for small to medium VPS providers. Which control panel would you use, while keeping the costs as low as possible. 

Cpanel??

plesk???

Im offering plans at the £3,£5,£10,£30 price point, but down want to push costs up!! But to stay competitive i think you need a good control panel...

What do you think?
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Why do you say VPS providers then give web hosting control panels?
 
WebSearchingPro

WebSearchingPro

VPS Peddler
Verified Provider
I'd like to add, if you are thinking about offering services where people pay you for security and reliability. Do not skimp out on license fees just to save a buck, that will come back to haunt you in the future especially with the small amount of industry experience it appears you have.

Buy a license from buycpanel for $13 a month and keep your customers and yourself (as well as future hires) happy.
 
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vampireJ

New Member
I would think that there is a good open source cpanel alternative out there. I just have not yet the time to actually prove it yet.
 
KuJoe

KuJoe

Well-Known Member
Verified Provider
vampireJ said:
I would think that there is a good open source cpanel alternative out there. I just have not yet the time to actually prove it yet.
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Even if there is, clients want cPanel and will not use anything else. I asked my paid clients on my previous hosting company if they would be willing to switch to DirectAdmin and switch from a paid account to a free account (same resources, same hardware, just switching from cPanel to DirectAdmin) and EVERY paid client said they would migrate to another paid account elsewhere if I dropped cPanel as an option.
 
TruvisT

TruvisT

Server Management Specialist
Verified Provider
Some people hate CPanel so by going DA and other panels you can win and control that market share and have less competition. 
 
nunim

nunim

VPS Junkie
cPanel is the industry standard and has been for many years now, everyone is so used to it and it's support is universal that it's really the only choice.  Out of all the custom shared hosting control panels that I've come across while doing migrations, I'd have to say that 99% of them were worse than cPanel.
 
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BuzzzHost

New Member
cPanel would be the best option in my opinion due to it's added simplicity for the user as well as constant updates. cPanel popularity alone will easily get you in the door every time but I really hate the fact that once installed on a server, it basically cannot be removed without re-partitioning the entire file-system and starting from scratch. I like using 'Webmin' as a free resource and as an alternative to cPanel.
 
rsk

rsk

Active Member
Verified Provider
cPanel all the way. Clients want simplicity, offer them just that.

The whole market is used to "cPanel"...
 
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Navyn

New Member
Verified Provider
As a vps provider we prefer cPanel as paid control panel.And virtualmin as free vps control panel. Both are fine.
 
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hostinghouston

Member
Verified Provider
Why not offer customers a choice to choose between what they want? You could offer cPanel, Plesk and DirectAdmin and allow the customer to choose what they want. DA will also work on a lower spec VPS than cPanel will.

We use all 3, and even some opensource ones and obsecure things (hostingcontroller) to keep our customers happy.

At the end of the day, customers will pay you if your services is up to standard, so previous comments are not wrong in saying don't skimp on the fees.
 
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