What is cPanel Web Hosting?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based hosting offers on the current website hosting market are generated by a very inconsiderable marketing niche (when it comes to yearly money flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-scale business segment, which furnishes a big quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet providing the very same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offerings on the entire hosting market supply literally the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel hosting prices are alike. Quite identical. Giving those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, remark that one...

Two hundred thousand "hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed

The hosting "variety" and the hosting "offers" Google presents to us come down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are just an average fellow who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the site making procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domain names and web portals. Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any web hosting variant you can settle on? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than 200,000 website hosting vendors out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique web hosting brand names in the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how big the variety on the present web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting company is an enormous stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The pros and cons of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps satisfied all web hosting industry demands. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Side No.1: An idiotic domain folder system

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be very attentive not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to remove on the hosting server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain name folder arrangement is:

Are you becoming disorientated? We clearly are!

Negative Point Number 2: The very same mail folder configuration

The e-mail folder structure on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys strongly increase their faith in God when coping with the email folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to screw things up too harshly.

Inconvenience No.3: An absolute shortage of domain administration options

Do we need to bring up the total deficiency of a contemporary domain name manipulation interface - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domains' Whois info, shield the Whois info, change/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a mammoth inconvenience. An unjustifiable one, we want to add...

Negative Sign Number Four: Numerous user login locations (minimum two, max 3)

What about the need for an additional login to use the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support administration platform? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based hosting supplier. At times, on the basis of the billing transaction platform (especially created for cPanel only) the cPanel hosting supplier is availing of, the zealous customers can end up with 2 extra logins (1: the invoicing/domain management GUI; 2: the trouble ticket support software platform), winding up with a total of three login places (including cPanel).

Weak Side Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty website hosting Control Panel departments to get acquainted with... fast

cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a glorious idea to get acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better learn them swiftly... That's extremely impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based hosting providers:

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