What Precisely is cPanel Hosting?

For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based hosting offers on the present web hosting marketplace are furnished by a very insignificant business segment (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-sized business segment, which furnishes a huge amount of different web hosting brands, yet offering precisely the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offers on the whole website hosting marketplace supply one and the very same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel hosting prices are identical. Very identical. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service practically no other hosting platform/web hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200k website hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, note that one...

200,000 "hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named

The hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us boil down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Assume you are simply a regular guy who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the website creation procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domains and websites. Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any hosting alternative you can opt for? Of course there is, right now there are more than 200k website hosting corporations in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ different website hosting brand names in the world will give you literally the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the diversity on the current website hosting market is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics shows that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a great stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly covered all website hosting business prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weak Side No.1: A foolish domain name folder setup

If you have two or more domains, however, be ultra careful not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to delete on the web hosting server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated 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. Observe for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain folder arrangement is:

Are you growing confused? We undoubtedly are!

Negative Side Number Two: The same email folder structure

The mail folder structure on the web hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin boys firmly fortify their faith in God when managing the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to bungle things up too fatally.

Negative Point Number Three: An entire deficiency of domain administration sections

Do we need to bring up the entire absence of a modern domain name administration interface - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, change domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois info, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a mammoth problem. An unpardonable one, we want to add...

Downside Number Four: Numerous user login locations (minimum two, maximum three)

What about the need for another login to make use of the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support administration tool? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based hosting distributor. Now and then, depending on the invoicing platform (principally devised for cPanel only) the cPanel hosting supplier is availing of, the eager customers can end up with two additional login locations (1: the billing/domain administration software; 2: the ticket support tool), ending up with an aggregate of three user login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Side Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel departments to become familiar with... quickly

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ departments inside the web hosting CP. It's a glorious idea to memorize each one of them. And you'd better learn them rapidly... That's quite insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based hosting providers:

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