What Precisely is cPanel Hosting?

For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based web hosting offers on today's web hosting market are provided by a very insignificant business niche (when it comes to yearly money flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-sized marketing niche, which generates a vast amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying absolutely the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offerings on the whole web hosting market offer the very same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web hosting price tags are similar. Very identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other hosting platform/web hosting CP option. Thus, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "web hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed

The web hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us boil down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different hosting trademarked names. Assume you are simply an average person who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web page creation processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domain names and websites. Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any hosting option you can choose? Of course there is, now there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting corporations in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique website hosting brand names all over the world will give you strictly the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the variety on the present hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics reveals that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting company is an enormous stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably covered all web hosting industry prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Problem Number One: A moronic domain name folder configuration

If you have two or more domain names, however, be very watchful not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to erase on the server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Check for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain name folder arrangement is:

Are you growing confused? We certainly are!

Negative Sign No.2: The same electronic mail folder configuration

The electronic mail folder configuration on the hosting server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin chaps firmly fortify their faith in God when coping with the email folders on the e-mail server, praying not to botch things up too seriously.

Weak Side No.3: An utter deficiency of domain manipulation options

Do we have to refer to the thorough shortage of a modern domain name management interface - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domains' Whois details, secure the Whois info, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not provide such a "modern" interface at all. That's a big drawback. An unforgettable one, we want to add...

Weak Side Number 4: Many login locations (min 2, max 3)

How about the demand for another login to access the billing, domain name and technical support administration interface? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web hosting company. Now and then, based on the invoice transaction platform (especially made for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting vendor is availing of, the earnest customers can wind up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration software platform; 2: the ticket support GUI), winding up with a total of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).

Disadvantage Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty website hosting Control Panel sections to become familiar with... quickly

cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a great idea to pick up each and every one of them. And you'd better memorize them promptly... That's way too insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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