What Precisely is cPanel Hosting?

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based Hosting offerings on today's web hosting market are supplied by a quite unsubstantial business segment (as far as annual money flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-scale marketing niche, which furnishes a great amount of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying one and the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98% of the website hosting offerings on the whole website hosting marketplace provide the very same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based Hosting prices are similar. Quite similar. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, mark that one...

200k "Hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed

The Hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us boil down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Suppose you are simply an average bloke who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the web page creation procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and web sites. Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any web hosting option you can pick? Sure there is, now there are more than 200k website hosting firms in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different web hosting brands worldwide will give you absolutely the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on the current web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The Hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple mathematics reveals that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a gigantic strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel Hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly fulfilled all website hosting industry preconditions. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weakness Number One: A dumb domain folder system

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be very cautious not to remove fully 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 name). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to remove on the web hosting server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. See for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain folder configuration is:

Are you becoming baffled? We categorically are!

Shortcoming Number 2: The same e-mail folder structure

The electronic mail folder structure on the web server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys strongly enhance their faith in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the email server, hoping not to botch things up too irretrievably.

Downside Number 3: A sheer shortage of domain name management GUIs

Do we have to point out the utter lack of a modern domain name manipulation platform - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domain names' Whois details, shield the Whois info, alter/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a huge disadvantage. An unforgettable one, we want to add...

Predicament Number Four: Multiple login locations (minimum two, maximum three)

What about the necessity for an additional login to avail of the invoicing, domain name and tech support administration platform? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel Hosting distributor. Sometimes, based on the billing system (especially devised for cPanel solely) the cPanel Hosting firm is making use of, the earnest clients can wind up with 2 extra logins (1: the billing transaction/domain administration software solution; 2: the ticket support tool), winding up with a total of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).

Problem Number 5: More than 120 web hosting Control Panel areas to get familiar with... quickly

cPanel offers to your attention 120+ sections inside the website hosting CP. It's a glorious idea to grasp each one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them swiftly... That's extremely insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Hosting corporations:

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