New changes made to the control panels offered within the VPS packages

cPanel

cPanel, one of the most widespread and used control panels in the web hosting industry, will undergo major changes in its licensing and pricing structure.
According to these changes, the price modification comes as a result of adapting to the current hosting market, following the model of several control panels whose licensing structure is based on the number of accounts/domains on the licensed server.
The new pricing of cPanel represents, however, the charging of each standalone hosting account after the 100th account on the licensed server. This will automatically lead to an increase in the cost borne by the provider for each hosting package sold.
This pricing structure will come into effect in September.

At the shared server level, the transfer of the additional cost to customers depends entirely on the hosting provider. We, at Hostico, will keep the rates for shared hosting packages (Personal, Business, SEO, Reseller) at the current level and will look for solutions to avoid passing this additional cost to customers. At the virtual server level, however, the change in the license fee will directly affect customers since the cost of the license is fully borne by them.

The new cPanel licensing structure sets the license price based on the number of hosting accounts on the server. Therefore, we will have the following types of licenses/pricing:

 

The number of accounts represents the maximum number of accounts that can be created on a server. However, there is no limit to the number of domains that can be added to an account, whether as additional or parked domains. The word Cloud in the license name refers to the fact that the license is available only for VPSs.

Plesk

In order to diversify the range of software offers and services, recently we have implemented alongside various services the Plesk control panel as an alternative to cPanel. The panel was implemented as an alternative to cPanel both in terms of interface and costs.
The Plesk control panel has a similar licensing structure, but it refers to the number of domains that can be hosted on a server regardless of their type.
The licensing structure and corresponding rates for the Plesk panel are:

 

Virtualmin

In the same idea as Plesk, we also announce the introduction of the Virtualmin panel as an alternative to cPanel and Plesk. This can be obtained for free but has limited functionality, meaning only one hosting account can be used by the user. However, there is no limit on the number of domains that can be hosted on this account. Virtualmin also offers paid licensing options that do not impose limitations on the number of accounts that can be used and/or server statistics.
If you wish to use Virtualmin without functionality limitations, you can purchase a license. The licensing/pricing structure is similar to that of the Plesk panel - limitations apply to the number of domains that can be hosted on the server.

 

General

Regardless of the control panel chosen, in the case of VPS managed by Hostico, a service that is offered for free - the installation, configuration, optimization, securing, and updating of the control panels and related services will be carried out by Hostico.
The interfaces of the panels are of course different, however, the basic functionality is the same for each of them (adding/deleting domains, mailboxes, etc).
In case of a desire to change the control panel, the Hostico technical team will take care of the data migration between the discussed panels.