WebPros: turning legendary software into premium invoices!!
If WebPros truly believes in their slogan “Where Innovation Meets Opportunity,” it must be an inside joke — because what actually happens is: Where Products Meet Financial Asphyxiation.
I have worked with their entire portfolio for over a decade — Plesk, cPanel, WHMCS, SolusVM, and now the next victim: Comet Backup. What I’ve witnessed is not mismanagement. It is a deliberate, industrial method of extracting value until nothing is left but a brand and a billing cycle.
The WebPros Formula (observed repeatedly):
1. Acquire beloved industry software built over years with community trust
2. Raise prices — not once, but every single year, far beyond inflation
3. Reduce innovation & development in favor of “revenue optimization”
4. Erode community, silence forums, lose core contributors
5. Blame “market adjustments” while preparing the next price increase
By 2026, Plesk and cPanel licenses will have risen nearly 300% since 2017 — with another +26% already confirmed. Security patches are late, stability issues linger (Dovecot, anyone?), and the roadmap feels like an afterthought. Yet the invoice never forgets.
They are not just killing products — They are killing their customers and partners
We were once one of the largest Plesk partners in our region. We defended them, promoted them, trusted them. Today? We’re migrating away — not out of preference, but out of necessity. Why? Because even our customers refuse to pay a control panel license that costs more than the server itself. That is financial insanity.
Even the largest hosting providers — the ones WebPros believes will “never leave” — are quietly building escape routes through subsidiary companies to bypass contractual price traps. When the giants are preparing lifeboats, the ship is sinking.
WHMCS: The ghost of what’s coming
Once a thriving product with legendary community contributors… Today it’s a deserted forum, overpriced, under-developed, waiting for sunset. This is not failure. This is corporate intent. And every WebPros product is entering the same corridor.
The Tragedy: These were once great products
Plesk could have led the industry. cPanel defined a generation of hosting. WHMCS powered thousands of businesses. Now, all of them are being drained of life to feed quarterly financial reports. WebPros is not a technology company — it is an asset liquidation machine wearing a software mask.
To Future Customers: Understand this clearly
WebPros will not improve their products. They will increase their prices until you leave.
You won’t abandon their platforms because competition is perfect — you will leave because staying becomes economically impossible.
Suggested new slogan for WebPros:
“WebPros – Where Innovation Meets Opportunity… to Triple Your Invoice.”