With Cpanel saying they are coming for your clients, this is why I continue to use virtualmin.
Thanks for sharing this @hescominsoon!
For those who didn’t have time to read it all:
You’ll be paying a monthly license fee to a company (cPanel) that is now going to try to sell the same services you offer to your customers. And WebPros has a built-in price advantage (they don’t have to pay cPanel or WHMCS licensing fees).
I reviewed the cPanel license agreement. Turns out that if you’re a hosting provider who licensed cPanel, you’ve explicitly given cPanel the right to contact all of your customers in the event cPanel cancels your license or if it expires.
In other words, if you decide you want to switch from cPanel to another panel and let your cPanel expire, WebPros has the right to contact all of your customers and entice them to switch to WebPros’ own hosting.
This is one of the meanest things to do!
We’d be happy to welcome those companies and their clients and offer higher-quality services at a much lower price!
I think this was the probably the plan when Webpros acquired them. As I recall the acquisition would probably have triggered scrutiny if it were a larger company. I think the cPanel + Plesk gave them the lion’s share of the commercial web panel market at the time.
I find this not only unethical but also likely illegal?
Such are things these day’s, sadly.
Welcome to the ripoff, nasty and mad planet earth.
Things were never perfect before but now it is getting crazier every day.
Glad I am withdrawing from it at an ever increasing pace.
David
@hescominsoon
Off topic, you should concider removing the wordpress favicon.
Does illegal count if no one is enforcing the laws unless they see some direct personal benefit?
never noticed..I’ll have my web dev address thanks.
yes it did..a vast majority.
Unethical, yes. Illegally … not sure. Should be made illegal because of how its done (and with the intention behind this in mind), but I am not good enough with law stuff to say that for certain that is it illegal.
I think this is meant rhetorically / as a joke, but yes. It counts. 
… at least it should. 
I’m glad I found Virtualmin. I still have some cPanel servers that I manage. Can you post the link where this news has been shared? Maybe remove the hyperlink so they don’t get any seo backlink advantage!
It’s linked from @hescominsoon’s original post. When you open it, they mention the links there, and that’s where it was quoted from.
I didn’t even know about this. So much for loyalty to customers who pay you for your software! It is quite shocking.
We either serve others, or we serve ourselves. That is the only choice in this life. The choice some have made becomes clear when we inspect companies like WebPros.
Thank you, Virtualmin! And thanks to hescominsoon for bringing this to our attention. What an eye-opener.
Catch and quarantine any emails that they send, or that have the word cPanel, Webpros, whatever.