Plesk acquires cPanel (This cannot be good)

I don't know how to feel about this. I prefer cPanel over Plesk although (might not be the case these days) I heard a number of times that cP was heavier on resources.

I host hundreds of websites under both Plesk/Onyx and Cpanel. If anything I would have thought Cpanel would buy Plesk.

For now I am not worried because Cpanels base is massive, but over time they will likely replace Cpanel with Plesk. Its probably a few years off though.

I remember when they bought Helm and said nothing would change. 18 months later Helm production was frozen and they let it die.

I think the government should stop the sale, I'm not for monopolies.

Competition is good and this is bound to cost a fortune more in licencing fees.

I hope they don't kill CPanel. Love using it.

I love plesk more than cpanel, it is easier in my opinion.

creataweb said:

I hope they don't kill CPanel. Love using it.

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how bout increasing cpanel license fee up to the sky while offering plesk as cheaper (and better) alternative, that whould be a nice move to kill cpanel slowly and painfully LOL

Thanks for letting us know, @MapleDots -- I like Cpanel a lot (admittedly my early days in it I had a different opinion, but now that I know it) and hope there will not be dramatic changes. I am surprised this has not got more attention/discussion. Corporate takeovers seem to happen all of the time. I doubt that anything will change, even though I share the concern expressed about monopolies not being good.

cipcip said:

I love plesk more than cpanel, it is easier in my opinion.

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Plesk 12 is nice, but it took years for them to get it to where it is now. I only use it for Windows hosting. I know Linux/Unix/BSD very well (25 years) so I prefer it for non-ASP type hosting.

MapleDots said:

Am I the only worried a bit about this?

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Oakley Capital (who already owns Plesk) acquires cPanel
On August 20th, 2018 cPanel, the control panel of choice for most of Web Hosting Canada's clients, agreed to be acquired by Oakley Capital. The signed agreement is the first big step in what may be a lengthy process before the transaction is finalized.

https://whc.ca/blog/oakley-capital-...utm_campaign=Newsletter+September+2018+A+-+EN

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WTF!!!

IMEZI said:

how bout increasing cpanel license fee up to the sky while offering plesk as cheaper (and better) alternative, that whould be a nice move to kill cpanel slowly and painfully LOL

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If you look at the Plesk companys past, they have been buying control panels and killing them off for years. Each time they promise full support and standard upgrade paths. But every single time the just slow down upgrades and fixes until people just end up migrating to plesk. Like I said, that would take a while before they do it to Cpanel, but they will do it.

Hi all! Just wanted to point out that Plesk is not acquiring cPanel. Oakley owns many companies, and two of them are now control panels.

bennyvasquez said:

Hi all! Just wanted to point out that Plesk is not acquiring cPanel. Oakley owns many companies, and two of them are now control panels.

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Oakley owns Plesk, right ?
Oakley will own Cpanel now, right ?

So Plesk "owns" Cpanel.

Parent companies like Oakley are just the money, but Oakley/Plesk/??? has done this before with other control panels.

"Plesk" has bought many control panels before and killed them. Was it Oakley, Plesk or some other name ? I know it was done because I watched it happen for years.

If I am wrong here, please explain it to me....

ps - Welcome to the forum stranger. New account, first post.... interesting....

I stand by my previous posts, Cpanel will be killed off over time...

Doesn't matter anyway, we don't have a choice....

This is bad no matter how you put it, it's like google buying a service and then rolling it into their own. Bam, no more competition. This is a very serious concern and as a web developer it worries me immensely.

All the talk about who owns the web.... well holy cow.... imagine when one company owns what the web runs on and these two control panels are basically it. I mean sure there are knock offs but these are the Momma and the Papa Panels.

See it now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is a huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuge concern.

There are alternatives, both commercial and free/open source.

NYJimbo said:

Oakley owns Plesk, right ?
Oakley will own Cpanel now, right ?

So Plesk "owns" Cpanel.

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By this logic, cPanel also owns Plesk.

bennyvasquez said:

By this logic, cPanel also owns Plesk.

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No silly, Cpanel is NOW being acquired by Oakley. Do I have to explain this to you ?

ps - why did you suddenly show up today ? Do you know what "shenanigans" is ?

Kate said:

There are alternatives, both commercial and free/open source.

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Divide them up by market share, if one company owns 80% they probably own the market.

bennyvasquez said:

By this logic, cPanel also owns Plesk.

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This is not logical benny Vasquez aka Manager of Community Engagement at cPanel : )

By the way, when Cpanel thinks to integrate SQL backend option for PowerDNS authoritative server?

https://features.cpanel.net/topic/mysql-backend-for-powerdns

cyc said:

This is not logical benny Vasquez aka Manager of Community Engagement at cPanel : )

By the way, when Cpanel thinks to integrate SQL backend option for PowerDNS authoritative server?

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That's me!

To answer your question: that one is actually currently slated for early 2019.

MapleDots said:

This is a huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuge concern.

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PS.... I was doing my best Donald Trump

Welcome @bennyvasquez

Would be nice to get some input here

Must have been a really big bag of money for this to happen....

That sucks

Kate said:

There are alternatives, both commercial and free/open source.

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Yes for sure. Here is a table that seems to give a pretty comprehensive rundown with the features/characteristics of each.

https://www.hostingadvice.com/blog/cpanel-vs-plesk-vs-webpanel/

I think for many of us we have grown accustomed to CPanel, and the choice(s) we have will be governed by the hosting company we use, and we just are resistant to major changes. Those that control their own dedicated servers do have multiple options.