What Indeed is cPanel Hosting?

For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based website hosting offerings on the present-day hosting marketplace are provided by a quite unsubstantial business niche (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-sized marketing segment, which provides a vast number of different web hosting brands, yet supplying strictly the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offers on the whole web hosting market furnish one and the very same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting price tags are identical. Very similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/website hosting CP option. So, there is only one single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...

200k "website hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded

The website hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us boil down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Imagine you are only an ordinary guy who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the site making procedures and the hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domains and sites. Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any web hosting option you can opt for? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting service providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different web hosting brand names across the world will give you precisely the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, named differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the variety on the contemporary hosting market is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math shows that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is an enormous strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps met all hosting business preconditions. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Inconvenience Number One: A stupid domain folder system

If you have two or more domain names, however, be extra careful not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub 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 erase on the server, since 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 located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain folder system is:

Are you becoming perplexed? We unquestionably are!

Negative Sign Number 2: The same mail folder arrangement

The e-mail folder structure on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin guys firmly increase their belief in God when managing the electronic mail folders on the email server, praying not to screw things up too seriously.

Negative Point No.3: An utter lack of domain name management sections

Do we need to point out the utter absence of a modern domain management interface - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, edit domain names' Whois details, shield the Whois information, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not supply such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a great disadvantage. An unforgettable one, we would like to point out...

Weak Side No.4: Many login places (minimum 2, max three)

What about the need for an additional login to access the billing transaction, domain and tech support administration GUI? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel website hosting vendor. Sometimes, depending on the invoice transaction tool (especially developed for cPanel solely) the cPanel website hosting vendor is making use of, the eager users can wind up with 2 additional login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain name management tool; 2: the ticket support interface), ending up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).

Disadvantage No.5: 120+ CP menus to grasp... fast

cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 menus inside the hosting CP. It's a superb idea to get familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better memorize them quickly... That's quite arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one too...