> Perhaps it didn't make much money prior to the hack. There were significant changes to cPanel licensing not long ago which caused some consternation as it wo

> Perhaps it didn't make much money prior to the hack. There were significant changes to cPanel licensing not long ago which caused some consternation as it would result in some hosts needing to pay more. IIRC it moved from a per-server model to per-user, with a block of users included in the minimal fee so for small hosts the change had no effect, but for a host like this with many small accounts the extra cost there would make already small margins even more tenuous. Presumably the little profit still made was better than nothing if the maintenance needed was minimal, but not (for this reason and/or others) large enough to be worth the rebuilding effort after this attack.