What Precisely is cPanel Hosting?

For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based website hosting offers on the present website hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite insignificant business segment (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a type of a small-scale business niche, which generates a vast quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet providing exactly the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offerings on the entire web hosting marketplace furnish one and the very same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting prices are identical. Very identical. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is merely a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...

Two hundred thousand "website hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named

The website hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us boil down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Imagine you are just a regular person who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web page making procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domain names and web portals. Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any website hosting variant you can pick? Of course there is, today there are more than 200,000 hosting providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand unique hosting brands across the world will offer you absolutely the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the variety on the present-day web hosting market is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple arithmetic shows that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a mammoth stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly met all website hosting industry requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Problem Number 1: A stupid domain name folder structure

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be very watchful not to remove fully 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 domains are quite easy to delete on the web hosting server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Decide for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain folder setup is:

Are you getting baffled? We undoubtedly are!

Negative Point Number 2: The same mail folder system

The electronic mail folder structure on the web hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chaps firmly reinforce their faith in God when coping with the mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to bungle things up too irretrievably.

Negative Side Number Three: An entire lack of domain administration menus

Do we have to cite the total absence of a contemporary domain name administration user interface - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, alter domain names' Whois details, protect the Whois information, change/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" tool at all. That's a considerable inconvenience. An inexcusable one, we wish to add...

Negative Point Number Four: Multiple user login places (minimum two, maximum 3)

How about the necessity for another login to use the billing transaction, domain name and tech support management GUI? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based website hosting corporation. At times, based on the invoice transaction tool (especially created for cPanel only) the cPanel website hosting company is availing of, the keen clients can end up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoicing/domain name administration software; 2: the trouble ticket support interface), ending up with a total of three user login locations (counting cPanel).

Drawback Number Five: 120+ web hosting CP menus to learn... quickly

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ areas inside the web hosting CP. It's a superb idea to become familiar with each of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them briskly... That's very impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based website hosting firms:

As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one too...