What Exactly is cPanel Hosting?

For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based Hosting offerings on the current hosting marketplace are furnished by a very insignificant marketing segment (when it comes to annual cash flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-sized marketing niche, which furnishes a huge amount of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing strictly the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the hosting offerings on the whole web hosting marketplace supply precisely the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based Hosting price tags are similar. Quite similar. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other hosting platform/hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is simply one single fact: out of more than 200k website hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "Hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed

The Hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offers" Google reveals to us boil down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Assume you are just a regular guy who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the web site development procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domain names and web pages. Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any website hosting variant you can settle on? Of course there is, now there are more than 200,000 web hosting service providers out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique website hosting brands worldwide will offer you the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, branded differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the variety on the current web hosting market is... Full stop.

The Hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple math shows that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a big stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel Hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably met all web hosting industry prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Point No.1: A laughable domain folder setup

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be very watchful not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to erase on the web server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, 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. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Observe for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain folder setup is:

Are you getting confused? We categorically are!

Negative Side No.2: The very same electronic mail folder structure

The electronic mail folder structure on the hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The admin guys strongly increase their belief in God when dealing with the electronic mail folders on the email server, praying not to muck things up too gravely.

Negative Side Number 3: A total lack of domain administration menus

Do we need to point out the entire absence of a modern domain name management platform - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, change domains' Whois info, protect the Whois details, change/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" GUI at all. That's an immense problem. An unpardonable one, we want to add...

Weak Point Number 4: Many user login places (minimum two, maximum 3)

What about the necessity for an additional login to use the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support management software platform? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel Hosting service provider. Now and then, based on the billing transaction platform (especially made for cPanel only) the cPanel Hosting provider is using, the earnest users can wind up with 2 extra logins (1: the billing/domain name management interface; 2: the ticket support software platform), ending up with an aggregate of three login places (including cPanel).

Drawback Number 5: 120+ web hosting Control Panel areas to memorize... swiftly

cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 sections inside the web hosting CP. It's a fine idea to memorize each of them. And you'd better get familiar with them rapidly... That's way too impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Hosting suppliers:

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