What is cPanel Hosting?

For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based website hosting offerings on the present-day web hosting marketplace are provided by a very inconsiderable business niche (when it comes to yearly cash flow) called hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-scale business segment, which supplies a big quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying absolutely the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98% of the web hosting offers on the entire hosting market furnish exactly the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel website hosting prices are identical. Quite similar. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/web hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

200,000 "website hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly branded

The website hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google reveals to us come down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Assume you are merely a regular bloke who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the website development processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domain names and sites. Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web hosting variant you can select? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than 200k website hosting firms in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different website hosting brand names worldwide will offer you the same cPanel hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the diversity on today's website hosting marketplace is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

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 an event like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably covered most web hosting business requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Sign Number One: A stupid domain name folder arrangement

If you have two or more domain names, however, be extra attentive 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 domains are quite simple to delete on the server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. See for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain name folder setup is:

Are you becoming puzzled? We positively are!

Weakness No.2: The very same email folder structure

The mail folder arrangement on the server is literally the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin blokes firmly increase their belief in God when handling the e-mail folders on the email server, hoping not to muck things up too harshly.

Drawback Number 3: An utter absence of domain name administration options

Do we have to mention the utter deficiency of a modern domain manipulation platform - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domains' Whois info, shield the Whois info, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a colossal downside. An inexcusable one, we wish to add...

Disadvantage Number 4: Many login places (minimum two, max 3)

What about the demand for an additional login to make use of the invoicing transaction, domain name and technical support management GUI? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel website hosting vendor. Sometimes, based on the invoicing transaction tool (particularly intended for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel website hosting vendor is making use of, the earnest clients can end up with 2 additional login places (1: the billing/domain name administration tool; 2: the ticket support software), winding up with a total of three user login locations (counting cPanel).

Negative Sign No.5: More than one hundred and twenty hosting Control Panel menus to learn... swiftly

cPanel presents for your consideration 120+ menus inside the CP. It's a fantastic idea to learn each one of them. And you'd better memorize them swiftly... That's quite arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting service providers:

As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one too...