The hidden costs of hosting service

[Hostmaster-Nick]

The issue with AutoSSL is that is renews every 60 days.
but at the end of the day, we are in a business to make money, why give clients a free SSL that is constantly being renewed.
AutoSSL is just a basic DV, which is not recommended if you have a commerce website etc.

That's true, I suppose it depends on the clients, this hosting in question was mostly marketed towards an older population so it just felt scammy in a way that maybe they didn't know that they could get this for free under other hosting companies. Otherwise, everyone is free to charge what they want, of course, and AutoSSL definitely had its downsides and could get pretty annoying when renewing and sometimes it would have been easier to just get a paid SSL instead and be done with it.

 

[easyhostmedia]

That's true, I suppose it depends on the clients, this hosting in question was mostly marketed towards an older population so it just felt scammy in a way that maybe they didn't know that they could get this for free under other hosting companies. Otherwise, everyone is free to charge what they want, of course, and AutoSSL definitely had its downsides and could get pretty annoying when renewing and sometimes it would have been easier to just get a paid SSL instead and be done with it.

what gets me is AutoSSL is free and normally auto set up when you create an account in your WHM, but in WHM it still have the buy SSL feature. I disable the buy SSL feature and only use Auto SSL for blogs etc.
as i sell SSL from as little as £10 per year. it amazes me the amount of websites you come across on cpanel that still dont have an SSL cert.

 

[Hostmaster-Nick]

what gets me is AutoSSL is free and normally auto set up when you create an account in your WHM, but in WHM it still have the buy SSL feature. I disable the buy SSL feature and only use Auto SSL for blogs etc.
as i sell SSL from as little as £10 per year. it amazes me the amount of websites you come across on cpanel that still dont have an SSL cert.

Yep, maybe they don't know it's free and are afraid that if they click on it, it will charge them some insane amount. However, as you said, it's usually auto setup when an account is created, so I'm not sure how they manage to avoid it. They might just run into some errors and don't bother fixing them and just leave it like that as "good enough". Who knows...

 

[easyhostmedia]

Yep, maybe they don't know it's free and are afraid that if they click on it, it will charge them some insane amount. However, as you said, it's usually auto setup when an account is created, so I'm not sure how they manage to avoid it. They might just run into some errors and don't bother fixing them and just leave it like that as "good enough". Who knows...

I don't like all these added features to cPanel that allows more free items to customers only for cPanel to justify their prices to us hosts. The only people making more money is cpanel. Features that you as a host can upsell from other providers and now available as part of cpanel, so you as a host loses revenue. so i disable any features i provide from other sources.