What Actually is cPanel Hosting?

For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based hosting offers on the current website hosting marketplace are provided by a very insignificant marketing segment (when it comes to yearly cash flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small marketing segment, which generates an enormous number of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing literally the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offers on the entire website hosting marketplace provide one and the very same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting prices are similar. Very similar. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/web hosting CP choice. Thus, there is only one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled

The hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google presents to us boil down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just an average chap who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web page development procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the different domains and online portals. Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any web hosting option you can opt for? Sure there is, as of now there are more than two hundred thousand hosting corporations in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique website hosting brand names in the world will offer you exactly the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, dubbed differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the assortment on the present-day website hosting marketplace is... Period.

The hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math demonstrates that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a great stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly met all web hosting market requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Side Number One: A stupid domain folder system

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be very careful not to erase 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 domain names are very easy to erase on the web server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine for yourself how good cPanel's domain name folder arrangement is:

Are you growing disorientated? We undeniably are!

Drawback Number Two: The very same e-mail folder setup

The email folder structure on the server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin chaps strongly strengthen their faith in God when handling the e-mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to mess things up too badly.

Shortcoming No.3: A thorough deficiency of domain name administration user interfaces

Do we need to bring up the entire lack of a modern domain management user interface - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois details, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a major weakness. An unjustifiable one, we would like to point out...

Drawback Number Four: Numerous user login places (minimum two, max 3)

How about the need for an additional login to access the billing transaction, domain name and technical support administration tool? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based hosting provider. Sometimes, based on the billing transaction platform (particularly invented for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel hosting vendor is utilizing, the devoted users can wind up with two additional login locations (1: the invoicing/domain name management platform; 2: the ticket support tool), ending up with an aggregate of three login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Side Number 5: 120+ web hosting Control Panel sections to become acquainted with... quickly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the hosting Control Panel. It's a wonderful idea to get familiar with each of them. And you'd better grasp them briskly... That's extremely insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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