What Actually is cPanel Hosting?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based hosting offerings on the present-day web hosting market are furnished by a quite insignificant business niche (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-scale marketing segment, which furnishes a vast number of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing precisely the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the website hosting offers on the whole hosting marketplace provide the very same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel hosting price tags are identical. Quite identical. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other hosting platform/website hosting CP alternative. So, there is only one single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...

200,000 "hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely named

The hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google presents to us come down to just one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Imagine you are merely a normal person who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the site development procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domains and websites. Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web hosting variant you can opt for? Sure there is, at present there are more than 200,000 website hosting companies out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique website hosting brands worldwide will give you exactly the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the variety on today's web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a gigantic strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

The pros and cons of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly fulfilled all website hosting market preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Side No.1: An idiotic domain name folder arrangement

If you have two or more domain names, however, be ultra attentive not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent 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 delete on the server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Observe for yourself how good cPanel's domain name folder configuration is:

Are you becoming disorientated? We unquestionably are!

Problem No.2: The very same mail folder structure

The e-mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin boys strongly strengthen their faith in God when handling the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to bungle things up too seriously.

Negative Point Number Three: An utter deficiency of domain name administration tools

Do we have to refer to the absolute shortage of a modern domain name management GUI - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domains' Whois info, secure the Whois info, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a considerable problem. An inexcusable one, we would like to point out...

Inconvenience No.4: Numerous login places (minimum 2, max three)

How about the demand for an extra login to access the invoice transaction, domain name and tech support management software solution? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel hosting service provider. Occasionally, based on the billing system (particularly devised for cPanel solely) the cPanel hosting supplier is using, the ardent clients can wind up with two extra login places (1: the billing/domain name administration system; 2: the trouble ticket support platform), winding up with a total of 3 login places (including cPanel).

Negative Sign No.5: More than 120 hosting CP menus to get to know... briskly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a fabulous idea to grasp each one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them promptly... That's inordinately arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based hosting suppliers:

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