$10 a server. Not $0.49 a customer.

A licence binds to one machine, and Unlimited puts no cap on accounts, mailboxes or databases on it. So the bill is $10 a month times the number of servers, and it stops moving as customers arrive: 3 servers with 200 accounts each is $360 a year, against $4,283.64 on cPanel list price. You can move a licence between servers yourself at no charge: release it from the old machine in your client area and activate it on the new one. Rebuilding a box is not a new licence.

Nothing you host goes offline. Websites, email and DNS keep serving, because those are stock Apache, Postfix/Dovecot and PowerDNS running on your machine — the panel manages them, it does not sit in front of them. Management degrades on a published schedule instead. From day 0 the panel reverts to free-tier limits, so you cannot create new hosting accounts, mailboxes or databases, and a renewal banner appears in vWHM; nothing existing is ever deleted. On day 3 automated backups pause — restoring an existing backup keeps working the whole time. On day 7 your customers see a service notice in vPanel. On day 14 vWHM locks to the renewal screen. Paying restores everything on the next licence check, within minutes.

The panel keeps working on its cached licence for a seven-day grace window; that is a constant in the source, not a promise. During grace the panel reports the number of days left rather than failing silently. Only after seven days of the licensing API being unreachable does it fall back to free-tier limits, and even then it does not lock you out of your own machine.

The panel is PHP source running on your own server. There is no hosted control plane to switch off, no compiled blob, and no component of your hosting that calls home to work. If our licensing server stopped answering tomorrow, the panel keeps your paid limits for a seven-day signed grace window and then falls back to free-tier limits — it does not brick and it does not lock you out of the machine. The worst case is a working server, running the same open-source services it runs today, that will not let you add new accounts from the UI. Your sites, mail and DNS never stop.

No, and there is nothing proprietary to unlock. Sites are ordinary Apache vhosts with the files under /home, mail is Postfix and Dovecot in standard Maildir format, DNS is PowerDNS, databases are MySQL/MariaDB, and certificates are ordinary Let's Encrypt certificates. Backups are plain .tar.gz archives with mysqldump .sql files inside — you can open one with tar and read it. You can rsync the entire server somewhere else, or point a different control panel at the same machine, without asking us for anything. We hold no encryption key and no piece of your stack lives on our servers.

No. You install the panel on your own VPS; we do not provision it, log into it, or receive a copy of anything on it. Your server checks in with us daily. That check-in sends the licence key and plan, a machine fingerprint, an install id, the panel version, the PHP version and OS name, your account count, and the account usernames and domains on that server; we use it to verify that a paid key is not being used on more servers than it covers. It never sends files, mailbox contents, databases, passwords or your customers' site content. You can switch it off with touch /etc/vantapanel/no-telemetry, and the privacy policy sets it out in full.

There is no separate reseller SKU, because there is nothing to gate: you buy a licence per server at the same price everyone pays, and every feature is already in it. You sell hosting under your own brand with your own nameservers, your own mail server and your own WHMCS. What Vanta Panel does not offer today is full white-labelling of the panel itself: vPanel carries Vanta Panel branding. If that is a blocker, say so before you buy rather than after.

Email support at support@vantapanel.com. Vanta Panel is a young product built by a small team; there is no enterprise customer list to point at, and inventing one would tell you nothing. What there is instead: a free tier that is the identical build, a live demo you can click through before you talk to anyone, documentation that includes the migration runbook in full, and a 14-day money-back window on your first payment. Put one real customer on it before you move fifty.