Can you elaborate about the fact that it's a development licence?
What are the terms of usage? I cannot seem to find to find any info about it using google, so i don't know what they are normally priced or what the restrictions are.
If it cannot legally be used to run a production system, i'd rather stick with ispconfig (less features, less stable, but open source).
The only difference between the licenses (Retail/Development/Test)
- You will see "Not for production environment" text on header of WHM.
- No difference in functionality
And yes, according to cPanel terms, this license is supposed to be used in non-production environment.