What In Fact is cPanel Hosting?

For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based website hosting offerings on the contemporary web hosting market are generated by a quite insignificant business niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-scale marketing segment, which provides a vast number of different web hosting brands, yet offering absolutely the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offers on the whole web hosting marketplace provide exactly the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting price tags are similar. Very identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel option. So, there is merely a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, mark that one...

200k "website hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded

The website hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us boil down to just one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are merely an average guy who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the web site making procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and online portals. Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any website hosting variant you can settle on? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than 200,000 website hosting service providers out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique web hosting brands around the world will give you the very same cPanel CP and platform, labeled differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the assortment on today's website hosting market is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math shows that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a gigantic stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps answered most web hosting business preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Predicament Number 1: An idiotic domain name folder system

If you have two or more domains, though, be ultra cautious not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to remove on the web server, because they all are located 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 situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Decide for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain folder structure is:

Are you getting perplexed? We positively are!

Weakness Number Two: The very same mail folder setup

The email folder arrangement on the web hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys firmly increase their faith in God when handling the email folders on the e-mail server, praying not to bungle things up too irreparably.

Shortcoming Number 3: A sheer shortage of domain name administration menus

Do we need to point out the total lack of a contemporary domain name management tool - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, modify domains' Whois details, protect the Whois details, change/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" GUI at all. That's an immense shortcoming. An unjustifiable one, we want to add...

Drawback Number 4: Numerous login places (min 2, max 3)

How about the need for an additional login to use the billing, domain and tech support administration tool? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based website hosting vendor. At times, based on the invoice transaction system (particularly made for cPanel only) the cPanel website hosting supplier is availing of, the earnest clients can wind up with 2 additional login locations (1: the billing/domain administration menu; 2: the trouble ticket support interface), ending up with a total of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).

Problem Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel departments to grasp... briskly

cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the web hosting CP. It's a fabulous idea to become familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them promptly... That's very arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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