What Precisely is cPanel Hosting?

For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based hosting offerings on the present web hosting market are furnished by a very insignificant business niche (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small business niche, which supplies an enormous number of different web hosting brand names, yet providing exactly 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 whole web hosting market offer precisely the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting prices are alike. Very identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/web hosting CP choice. So, there is only one single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...

200,000 "hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded

The hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offers" Google shows to us come down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Suppose you are only a regular fellow who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the web site making processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domain names and web sites. Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any website hosting alternative you can select? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting firms out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique website hosting brands all over the world will give you exactly the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, dubbed differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the diversity on the contemporary website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math reveals that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a mammoth stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably answered all hosting market prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Drawback Number One: An imbecilic domain folder configuration

If you have two or more domain names, though, be ultra watchful not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to delete on the hosting server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. See for yourself how good cPanel's domain folder structure is:

Are you getting confused? We clearly are!

Negative Side Number Two: The same email folder configuration

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin guys strongly increase their belief in God when handling the e-mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to botch things up too gravely.

Predicament Number 3: A total shortage of domain management options

Do we have to cite the entire lack of a modern domain management interface - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, change domains' Whois details, protect the Whois info, change/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "modern" section at all. That's a colossal inconvenience. An unforgettable one, we wish to add...

Negative Aspect Number 4: Numerous login locations (minimum two, max 3)

What about the necessity for another login to use the invoicing, domain and technical support administration tool? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based hosting vendor. At times, on the basis of the invoice transaction tool (particularly created for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel hosting company is using, the zealous customers can wind up with 2 additional login places (1: the invoicing/domain name management menu; 2: the trouble ticket support interface), winding up with an aggregate of three login locations (including cPanel).

Weakness Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel areas to memorize... fast

cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 areas inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a marvelous idea to memorize each of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them promptly... That's quite impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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