Regardless of which web hosting service you use for your website, you could soon see a major price increase due to the fact that cPanel announced over the summer that it would shift to an account-based pricing and licensing structure next year.

If you're not familiar with cPanel, the company provides shared web hosting users with a Linux-based graphical user interface (GUI) and control panel which simplifies website and server management.

While some web hosts offer their own alternatives to cPanel, they pale in comparison to the industry standard control panel.

In order to stand out in the increasingly crowded web hosting market, many providers offer cPanel as standard while others do so as an add-on that users can add to their plans for a price. However, cPanel's price increase, which will go into effect on January 1 of next year, will likely lead the web hosts that do offer the control panel as standard to raise the price of their plans to justify its inclusion.

cPanel price increase

cPanel's new account-based pricing and licensing structure will apply to its partners, cPanel Store customers and distributors.

The company explained the move in an email that was....

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This will only make cpanel alternatives more popular.

This happened over a year ago.

Wasn't bad as expected but we now offer DirectAdmin and CentOSWebPanel as options just in case