What Exactly is cPanel Hosting?

For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel hosting offers on the present web hosting market are generated by a very insubstantial marketing niche (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-scale business segment, which generates an immense quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing literally the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offers on the whole web hosting marketplace supply absolutely the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting prices are similar. Very identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/web hosting CP option. Thus, there is simply one single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled

The hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google shows to us come down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Assume you are just a normal fellow who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the site creation processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domains and web pages. Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web hosting alternative you can choose? Sure there is, right now there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting service providers out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different web hosting brand names around the world will give you the very same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the assortment on the present web hosting market is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a big stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably fulfilled most web hosting business requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Side Number One: A ludicrous domain folder system

If you have two or more domains, though, be extra watchful not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to remove on the web hosting server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how great cPanel's domain folder system is:

Are you getting bewildered? We clearly are!

Predicament No.2: The same mail folder system

The electronic mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin blokes firmly enhance their faith in God when managing the e-mail folders on the mail server, praying not to botch things up too irreparably.

Disadvantage No.3: A total absence of domain name manipulation user interfaces

Do we have to bring up the sheer shortage of a modern domain name administration user interface - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, change domains' Whois details, shield the Whois information, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not supply such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a colossal problem. An unjustifiable one, we want to point out...

Inconvenience No.4: Many user login places (minimum 2, max 3)

What about the necessity for another login to utilize the invoicing, domain name and tech support administration GUI? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel hosting firm. At times, depending on the billing system (principally tailored for cPanel only) the cPanel hosting service provider is availing of, the devoted users can wind up with 2 additional login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration interface; 2: the trouble ticket support platform), ending up with a total of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).

Weakness No.5: More than a hundred and twenty website hosting Control Panel areas to memorize... swiftly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 menus inside the hosting CP. It's a remarkable idea to get to know each and every one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them fast... That's way too impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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