What's changed: licensing, patches and pricing this week
Monday round-up: January's WebPros price hike is still causing a stir, Workers Logs pricing changes on 1 December, and PHP 8.2 reaches EOL on 31 December.
UptimeMag editorial team · 5 October 2026 · 3 min read
Back with the Monday round-up: what's changed over the past week for anyone running a control panel, a CDN or a fleet of production servers. Three stories, all with a firm date attached.
WebPros: the January price hike still hasn't settled down
WebPros' 2026 list price increase (cPanel, Plesk, WHMCS) has been in effect since 1 January 2026, with hosts automatically updating licence costs starting from the January invoice. This is no small detail for resellers: WebPros has also increased the surcharge for servers running on end-of-life operating systems, such as CentOS 6 and 7 or CloudLinux 6 and 7.
The figures published by reseller h4y.us for cloud/VPS licences:
| Licence | New monthly price | Increase |
|---|---|---|
| cPanel Admin Cloud (up to 5 accounts) | $21.00 | +$1.25 |
| cPanel Pro Cloud (up to 30 accounts) | $32.00 | +$4.75 |
| cPanel Plus Cloud (up to 50 accounts) | $42.00 | +$2.75 |
| cPanel Premier Cloud (up to 100 accounts) | $49.50 | +$2.50 |
| Plesk Web Admin | $16.99 | +$1.99 |
| Plesk Web Pro | $29.99 | +$3.99 |
| Plesk Web Host | $62.99 | +$14.99 |
Canadian reseller stormweb.ca reports different figures for the same items (e.g. cPanel Pro going from $65.78 to $75.83), a sign that the base list price is then marked up inconsistently by resellers: before signing a renewal, it's worth asking WebPros directly for the list price rather than trusting the provider's table.
On the WHMCS side, the company confirmed on its official forum that the price change was announced on 14 October 2025, effective from 1 January 2026. Customer comments still show ongoing complaints about the recurring increases, but as of now WebPros hasn't announced any corrections.
Cloudflare: Workers Logs pricing changes from 1 December
Anyone using Cloudflare Workers and keeping an eye on logs has a date to mark in the calendar: from 1 December 2026, Workers Logs will switch to Cloudflare Observability's unified pricing; until then, the current pricing remains in effect. According to the official documentation, the model moves from per-event counting to volume-based counting:
| Plan | Included ingestion | Included storage | Extra cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | 0.5 GB per day | 7 days of retention | not available |
| Paid | 50 GB per billing cycle | 12 GB-month per cycle | $0.25/GB ingestion, $0.10/GB-month storage |
Workers Observability customers already on the Free, Pro and Business plans will automatically move to this pricing on 1 December 2026, while Enterprise accounts will switch over at contract renewal. Anyone currently exporting large volumes of logs via Logpush or keeping long retention periods on Workers Traces would do well to estimate their GB consumption before the new invoice kicks in.
PHP 8.2: 87 days to EOL
Final notice: PHP 8.2 reaches End Of Life on 31 December 2026 — as of today, 5 October, that's 87 days away. According to PHP version tracking, the current status is "security fixes only": upgrading to a more recent version is recommended, since PHP 8.2 is expected to reach End-of-Life on 2026-12-31. After that date, no more official patches from the PHP project: anyone running shared hosting with PHP 8.2 as the default version should already have planned the move to 8.3, 8.4 or 8.5 in their client panels.
No Prime Software products mentioned in this instalment.
Written with the help of artificial intelligence and checked by the editors (EU AI Act, art. 50).