What is cPanel Hosting?

For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based web hosting offerings on the present-day website hosting marketplace are generated by a quite insubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to annual money flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-size business segment, which supplies a big quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering one and the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offers on the entire website hosting marketplace furnish one and the very same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting price tags are identical. Very much alike. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/hosting CP choice. So, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200k hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...

200,000 "web hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled

The web hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us boil down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are simply a normal bloke who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the web page making processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the different domain names and websites. Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web hosting option you can choose? Of course there is, now there are more than 200k web hosting service providers out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique website hosting brands around the world will give you precisely the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on today's web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math shows that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a huge strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably covered most web hosting market preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Aspect No.1: A stupid domain folder structure

If you have two or more domain names, though, be extra attentive not to erase 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 very easy to erase on the web hosting server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located 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. Examine for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain name folder arrangement is:

Are you getting confused? We undeniably are!

Negative Sign Number 2: The very same electronic mail folder setup

The electronic mail folder structure on the web hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin blokes strongly strengthen their belief in God when dealing with the email folders on the e-mail server, praying not to mess things up too fatally.

Shortcoming Number Three: A complete shortage of domain management options

Do we need to point out the sheer lack of a contemporary domain name administration user interface - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, change domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois info, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a huge shortcoming. An inexcusable one, we wish to add...

Weak Point Number 4: Multiple user login places (min two, max three)

How about the need for another login to avail of the invoicing, domain and technical support administration interface? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web hosting supplier. Sometimes, on the basis of the invoice transaction system (particularly tailored for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting company is making use of, the enthusiastic customers can wind up with two additional login places (1: the billing transaction/domain administration GUI; 2: the trouble ticket support tool), ending up with an aggregate of three login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Point Number 5: More than 120 web hosting CP departments to become familiar with... briskly

cPanel presents for your consideration 120+ areas inside the web hosting CP. It's an excellent idea to get to know each and every one of them. And you'd better pick them up rapidly... That's very impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web hosting companies:

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