cPanel is a well-known control panel used by hosting companies like ours to help clients manage their websites. For many years, cPanel has been a helpful tool. But recently, they have started doing something that feels unfair and wrong. They are forcing ads for their own services onto our clients’ control panel. These ads promote cPanel’s own developers, which is bad for us because we also offer similar services, like web design and development.
This is not only hurting our business, but it feels like cPanel is becoming a scam by forcing us to show ads for their services without our permission. In this article, we’ll explain why this is a big problem and how it is damaging our company.
What Is the Problem?
cPanel has added a button called “Hire a Developer” inside one of its features called WP Toolkit. This button is an ad for cPanel’s own developers. When our clients click on it, they are taken to cPanel’s developers instead of using the services we offer, like website design and development.
This is very bad for us because it takes away clients who could use our services. Clients might think that cPanel’s developers are better just because they are being promoted inside the control panel. This causes confusion, and we lose business.
Forced Ads in cPanel
The worst part of this situation is that these ads are forced on us. We, as hosting providers, cannot turn them off or remove them. We pay cPanel to use their software to help our clients, but now they are showing ads that help their business and take money from us.
It feels very unfair because we have no choice but to show these ads to our clients, and this damages our relationship with them.
How This Hurts Our Business
- We Lose Money: When clients click on the “Hire a Developer” button and go to cPanel’s developers, we lose out on business. We offer the same services, but cPanel is taking away those opportunities from us.
- Clients Get Confused: Many clients do not understand that the developers promoted by cPanel are not part of our company. They think we are the ones promoting those developers, which is not true. This creates confusion and damages the trust our clients have in us.
- We Can’t Control the Ads: We don’t have any control over these ads. We should be able to choose what our clients see in their control panel, but cPanel is forcing these ads on us, which is not fair.
Why It Feels Like a Scam
This whole situation feels like a scam because:
- cPanel didn’t tell us this would happen: When we started using cPanel, we were never told that ads for their services would be forced onto our clients. It feels sneaky and dishonest.
- They are competing with us: cPanel is supposed to help us run our business, but instead, they are showing ads that take business away from us. This is unfair, especially because we pay them to use their software.
How cPanel Can Fix This
cPanel needs to make changes to stop hurting hosting companies like ours. Here’s what they should do:
- Let Us Turn Off Ads: cPanel should give hosting providers like us the option to turn off these ads. We don’t want our clients to see ads for services that compete with our business.
- Be Honest and Transparent: cPanel should have told us that they were going to add these ads. If they want to promote their services, they should at least give us a choice and inform us in advance.
- Respect Our Business: cPanel needs to respect the fact that we also offer services like web design and development. They should not use their platform to compete with the businesses that pay them for their software.
Conclusion
cPanel’s decision to force ads for their developers onto our clients’ control panel is unfair and feels like a scam. These ads hurt our business by taking clients away from us and creating confusion.
As hosting providers, we depend on cPanel to help us manage our clients’ websites. But now, cPanel is becoming a competitor by promoting their own services, and that is not right.
