The best place to buy hosting licenses depends on what you value more: the lowest monthly cost, or a licence issued directly to you by the software vendor. Buying direct from cPanel, LiteSpeed or CloudLinux gives you a licence in your own name at list price. Third-party suppliers, including hosting companies, often charge much less, but the licence is supplied through their account. Compare the total monthly cost of your stack, how updates are delivered, who supports you and what happens if you change supplier.
This is Tremhost’s own blog, and Tremhost is one of the providers listed. Facts about the vendors below come only from their own websites, the list is alphabetical, and nothing here is a ranking or a recommendation of one supplier over another.
What makes a licence supplier good for a small hosting business?
How the licence is issued
What to check: whether the licence is issued directly by the vendor in your name, or supplied by a third party from its own partner or shared licensing account. Why it matters: a vendor-direct licence is a contract between you and the vendor. A third-party licence depends on your supplier’s arrangement with the vendor, so your supplier’s reliability matters as much as the price.
Updates
What to check: that the software receives official vendor updates through its normal update channel. Why it matters: control panels and security tools are exposed to the internet. A licence that blocks or delays updates is a security risk, however cheap it is.
Price per server, not per product
What to check: the combined monthly cost of everything one server needs, for example cPanel, CloudLinux, LiteSpeed, Imunify360 and a backup tool. Why it matters: a stack bought at list price can cost more each month than the server underneath it, which sets the minimum price you can charge customers.
Account limits
What to check: how many cPanel accounts, domains or users each licence tier covers, and the cost per extra account. Why it matters: per-account pricing changes your margins as you grow.
Support and payment
What to check: who you contact when a licence fails to activate, their hours, the billing currency and the payment methods accepted. Why it matters: an unlicensed control panel stops working for every customer on the server, so a licence that lapses over a declined card is an outage.
A shortlist of places to buy hosting licences
Listed alphabetically, not ranked. Prices are monthly list prices in US dollars as published, before any taxes. Check the linked page for current terms.
- cPanel Store (vendor direct). cPanel Solo Cloud is $29.99 a month for one account, Admin Cloud $35.99 for up to five, Pro Cloud $53.99 for up to thirty, and Premier Cloud or Premier Metal $69.99 for 100 accounts plus $0.49 per account over 100, effective 16 December 2025, as listed on 5 November 2026.
- Imunify360 (vendor direct). Per-server licences start at $12 a month at the first tier, or $5 per server when buying five or more, with higher tiers at $25, $35 and $45, as listed on 5 November 2026. The tier must cover all hosting accounts on the server.
- LiteSpeed Technologies (vendor direct). LiteSpeed Web Server has a free Starter tier for one domain, Site Owner at $10 a month for five domains, and Web Host tiers with unlimited domains from $26 a month (Web Host Lite, under 8 GB RAM) to $92 a month (Web Host Elite), as listed on 5 November 2026.
- Tremhost (third-party supplier). Supplies shared licences that receive official vendor updates; they are supplied by Tremhost and not issued directly by the vendor to the buyer. cPanel and WHM with unlimited accounts is $5 a month for a VPS or $6 for a dedicated server; CloudLinux $6 a month; Imunify360 $5 a month; LiteSpeed from $5 a month for 2 cores up to $15 a month for X cores; JetBackup $17 a year; Softaculous $17 a year. One-time lifetime options are listed for cPanel ($190 for a VPS, $250 for a dedicated server), CloudLinux ($250) and Imunify360 ($190). Prices are in US dollars, payable by EcoCash, InnBucks, ZimSwitch, Omari, Visa, Mastercard or cryptocurrency, with support Monday to Friday, 08:00 to 17:00 CAT. Every licence is listed on the Tremhost licences page.
A worked example: one VPS with a full stack
Take one VPS hosting up to 100 cPanel accounts, with cPanel, LiteSpeed and Imunify360. At the vendor list prices above, that is $69.99 for cPanel Premier Cloud, $26 for LiteSpeed Web Host Lite (if the server has under 8 GB of RAM) and $12 for a single Imunify360 licence at the first tier: about $108 a month before CloudLinux, backups or taxes, and the right Imunify360 tier depends on your account count. The same three from Tremhost’s published prices come to about $15 a month for a 2-core server. The difference is real, and so is the trade-off: the vendor-direct stack is licensed to you, while the cheaper stack depends on your supplier’s arrangement with each vendor. Read each supplier’s terms before you decide.
Where should you buy? A decision guide
- You need licences in your own name for compliance, audits or contracts: buy direct from the vendor or an authorised partner that issues licences to you.
- You are starting a small hosting business and price decides whether it works: compare third-party suppliers, and confirm they deliver official updates and have support you can reach.
- You run few accounts: check the vendor’s small tiers, such as cPanel Solo or Admin, before assuming you need a large licence.
- You would rather not manage licences at all: a managed cPanel VPS includes cPanel and WHM, LiteSpeed, CloudLinux and Imunify360 in one price.
- You only need hosting, not a server: shared or reseller hosting already includes these tools.
Frequently asked questions
Are cheap cPanel licences legitimate?
Ask how the licence is supplied, whether it receives official updates and what happens if the supplier’s arrangement with the vendor changes. Avoid any offer that requires disabling updates or installing modified software.
Can I move a licence to a new server?
Licences are usually tied to a server IP address, and each supplier handles IP changes under its own rules. Check those terms before buying, especially if you expect to rebuild or move servers.
Do I need CloudLinux and Imunify360 as well as cPanel?
Not strictly, but on a server shared by many customers, CloudLinux isolates accounts so one busy site cannot slow the rest, and Imunify360 adds firewall and malware protection.
Next step
If you already run a server, compare Tremhost’s licence prices with the vendor pages above for the exact stack you need. If you still need a server, Tremhost’s KVM VPS plans start at $15 a month with dedicated cores and NVMe storage.
