I deleted the last cPanel account today
No more shared hosting for I ever again
I have been self hosting since 2019 but kept one old client site on a cPanel plan for emergencies
I finally migrated it to a Hetzner VPS and closed the account
I am free
Finally deleted my last cPanel shared hosting account
Just use SSH
Skill issue resolved after 7 years, impressive
The real question is how many times you will miss having Softaculous at 3am when a client needs WordPress deployed in ten minutes
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oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
The cPanel exit is less about control and more about email deliverability
For what it's worth, shared IP reputation on those hosts was catastrophic by 2023. SPF alignment impossible, no dedicated IP option under their "business" tier, RBL listings you could not escape because some neighbor sent phish from the same /24
Your own VPS means your own warm IP, your own rDNS, your own DMARC policy enforcement
Congrats on the migration
SPF, DKIM, DMARC — holy trinity ✉️
Back in 2009 I kept a cPanel account for a side project because it came free with a domain registration
They don't make them like that anymore
The interface was slower than my first Pentium 4 server but it had Fantastico and that felt like magic at the time
Now I run three KVM nodes and I barely remember what the cPanel file manager looked like
Good for you @Elena, the learning curve pays off
SPARCstation 20, still serving HTTP
Hey folks
Congrats on the milestone ELENA, and thanks everyone for the memories
Keeping this open for now but let's not turn it into a general shared hosting bash thread, we have plenty of those already 🙂
~be kind or be gone~
sam_ams
Member
We see this transition often in our community. The skills you build managing your own stack tend to compound over time, even if the initial setup takes longer than a one-click install.
There is a genuine trade-off between velocity and control. You have chosen the path that suits your needs now.
Sam
Softaculous at 3am hits different though
minh1987
Member
Hetzner gives you dedicated IP and rDNS by default on their cloud servers?
phở at 3AM, deploy at 4
Which Hetzner plan, their CX11 or the next tier