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What do you think about cPanel solo license?
Hello guys.
I've registered cPanel marketing newsletter list, and do some survey which get latest info about cPanel.
And now cPanel introduce cPanel solo to hosting market.
You can view their marketing email here :
app.scsend.com/?q=email/view/14Z4w3NPNGTYc2FO26E8FetSSfWhCvAK3gyhSM1fejTq4
or their pricing page : https://store.cpanel.net/view/cpanel/license-options
It cost $15/month 
Why not $7/month for solo license?
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Waste of money, unless you actually make use of some of it's unique features.
I would guess license sellers like buycpanel will be selling it cheaper just like VPS licenses. In that case it'll probably be useful for some.
I've been trying to find useful information on it for a while. It's it just cPanel/WHM limited to 1 account or are there other differences?
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Limited to 1 cPanel account and some removed/modified interfaces:
https://documentation.cpanel.net/display/CKB/cPanel+Solo+License
it would only make sense if deployed on a dedicated, for a VPS, full, unlimited provider license is likely to be cheaper
I don't get it, frankly.
For a VPS, the VPS license is cheaper.
For a dedicated server, the VPS is cheaper.
So what is the point of a solo license? Just use the VPS license.
I imagine if you have a beefy server that you want as a bare metal, that does some big magento store or something alike and is dedicated only to this project, plus your web devs need to have cPanel much, this could be the option for them.
I only see it really being beneficial for those using cPanel on a dedicated server with a single website.
Solo license is $5 cheaper monthly than VPS I think.
maybe it should be $5/month for this license, not $5 cheaper monthly than vps
Meh. Dumb idea.
I don't know about $5, but yeah $15 does sound steep.
Only issue is that they have no plans on offering it to their partners or distributors at this stage from what they told me when I asked
pointless waste of money. The dedicated licence pointless too, who stop you to setup one big VPS on one dedicated server?
Why spend $15 for a single account when you can get unlimited accounts for $20?
Totally worthless POS. Other than getting a panel for an account, paying cpanel that much for that much is utterly stupid. At least for me.
IIRC the agreement for internal licences prohibits this (you're supposed to have >3 VPSs on it or something).. that said it's still cheaper to get an external licence than solo
They're obviously trying to copy Plesk's approach of a cheaper option for Joe Bloggs who has a couple of personal sites on his own server. That makes sense but it has to be genuinely cheaper and ideally, it should not just be the regular product with stupid limitations superimposed, it should be something that's easy for Joe Bloggs to use for his 2 sites.
Ah, but if you need some external help for your big magento store and would like the contracted help to have limited access you'd be unable to with the solo licence - Single user and all.
It seems like a very niche product.
Just hope they're not planning to increase the VPS license....
you don't say?
Should have been limited to 10 accounts and had been $10 for vps or $15 for dedi
Price too high. Webuzo on the other hand provides almost all the same features for 2.5$/month as single user panel.
Better to use webuzo
Meh, still can make two idle 128MB VPS and a big one. Unless the license states you need to use cPanel on all of the 3 VPSes.
In starting they try to sell under $7/mo but later they changed price to $15 because of I think lot of people start migrating to Solo
When I last saw it mentioned, the price was cheaper, so it was good for those who fit in that specific category. Not really a wide spread one though.
I see potential in this license type - but the pricing still needs some works and partners definitely need to be able to sell it.
or use Virtualmin and donate one-time to their PayPal, whatever you can spare.
It's really all you need for 99% of 'solo' scenarios.
Loving the LET narrow mindedness.
There is no such prohibition. @WebProject is correct.
http://www.vpsadvice.com/buy-a-vps-license-for-your-cpanel-dedi/