What Actually is cPanel Hosting?

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based hosting offerings on today's website hosting market are furnished by a very inconsiderable business niche (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-sized business niche, which furnishes a vast amount of different web hosting brands, yet providing literally the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offers on the whole website hosting marketplace offer the very same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel hosting price tags are identical. Very much alike. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is only one fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

200k "hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled

The hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us boil down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are simply an average person who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web site development procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the various domains and websites. Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any website hosting option you can select? Sure there is, now there are more than 200,000 web hosting corporations in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ different web hosting brands across the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the diversity on today's web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic shows that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is an enormous stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly answered all hosting market demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Drawback Number One: A foolish domain name folder system

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be ultra watchful not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to delete on the web hosting server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known 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 delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Decide for yourself how great cPanel's domain folder configuration is:

Are you becoming nonplussed? We undoubtedly are!

Negative Side No.2: The very same email folder arrangement

The electronic mail folder configuration on the hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly increase their belief in God when handling the e-mail folders on the mail server, praying not to mess things up too gravely.

Predicament No.3: A total absence of domain name manipulation options

Do we need to point out the total deficiency of a modern domain name management user interface - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, change domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois information, change/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" tool at all. That's a gigantic predicament. An unjustifiable one, we want to add...

Shortcoming Number 4: Numerous login places (minimum two, max three)

What about the need for an extra login to use the invoicing, domain name and tech support management software platform? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based hosting distributor. Occasionally, on the basis of the invoicing transaction tool (especially devised for cPanel solely) the cPanel hosting provider is utilizing, the devoted users can wind up with two extra logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration software platform; 2: the ticket support GUI), ending up with a total of 3 login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Sign Number Five: 120+ web hosting CP menus to memorize... quickly

cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 departments inside the website hosting CP. It's an excellent idea to get acquainted with each of them. And you'd better pick them up briskly... That's inordinately insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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