What Precisely is cPanel Hosting?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel website hosting offers on the current web hosting market are provided by a quite unsubstantial business niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-sized marketing segment, which supplies an immense amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing precisely the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98% of the web hosting offers on the entire web hosting marketplace supply one and the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting prices are similar. Very similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/website hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is simply one single fact: out of more than 200k website hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...

200k "website hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named

The website hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us come down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Assume you are only an average chap who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the web page creation processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domain names and online portals. Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web hosting variant you can opt for? Sure there is, today there are more than 200,000 web hosting corporations in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique web hosting brand names across the world will give you strictly the same cPanel Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the assortment on today's web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple math reveals that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a big stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably met most web hosting industry prerequisites. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Disadvantage Number 1: An idiotic domain name folder system

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be very watchful not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to delete on the hosting server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain name folder configuration is:

Are you growing confused? We categorically are!

Problem No.2: The same mail folder system

The e-mail folder structure on the web hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin blokes firmly reinforce their faith in God when dealing with the mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too gravely.

Negative Sign Number Three: A complete absence of domain manipulation GUIs

Do we have to mention the utter absence of a modern domain administration GUI - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, modify domains' Whois info, protect the Whois info, modify/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a great shortcoming. An unpardonable one, we would like to point out...

Downside Number Four: Multiple user login places (minimum 2, max three)

What about the need for another login to make use of the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support management user interface? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel website hosting firm. Occasionally, depending on the invoicing transaction tool (especially tailored for cPanel only) the cPanel website hosting vendor is making use of, the eager clients can wind up with two extra logins (1: the billing transaction/domain name administration user interface; 2: the trouble ticket support menu), winding up with an aggregate of three user login places (including cPanel).

Shortcoming Number Five: 120+ web hosting CP menus to get to know... rapidly

cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the hosting Control Panel. It's a terrific idea to get familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them promptly... That's inordinately impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting service providers:

As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one too...