What Actually is cPanel Hosting?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel web hosting offerings on the current website hosting marketplace are generated by a quite insubstantial business segment (when it comes to annual money flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small marketing segment, which furnishes a big number of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing one and the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offers on the whole web hosting marketplace offer one and the very same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web hosting prices are identical. Quite identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is only one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "web hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded

The web hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us boil down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different hosting brand names. Imagine you are just an ordinary bloke who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web site making procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domains and websites. Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any web hosting variant you can select? Sure there is, at present there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting firms in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ unique website hosting brand names across the world will give you the very same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the assortment on the present-day web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple arithmetic reveals that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is an enormous stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

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

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably satisfied all website hosting market requirements. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weakness Number One: A stupid domain folder system

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extremely watchful not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to erase on the server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Decide for yourself how good cPanel's domain folder setup is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is situated)
public_html/my-family (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-domain.com (an add-on domain)
public_html/my-second-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-wife.net (an add-on domain name)
public_html/my-third-domain.com (an add-on domain)
public_html/my-third-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-third-wife.net (an add-on domain name)
public_html/rebeka (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/rebeka.my-third-wife.net (a sub-domain of an add-on domain name)

Are you growing confused? We surely are!

Negative Point No.2: The very same e-mail folder arrangement

The mail folder arrangement on the web server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin guys firmly increase their belief in God when managing the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to mess things up too irreparably.

Inconvenience No.3: An entire shortage of domain name manipulation sections

Do we need to refer to the absolute absence of a modern domain administration menu - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domains' Whois information, secure the Whois information, edit/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a colossal problem. An inexcusable one, we want to add...

Negative Aspect Number Four: Numerous user login places (min two, maximum three)

How about the need for another login to avail of the invoicing, domain name and technical support administration software solution? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web hosting provider. Sometimes, depending on the billing system (principally devised for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting corporation is availing of, the enthusiastic users can wind up with 2 additional login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain name administration user interface; 2: the trouble ticket support software platform), ending up with a total of 3 login locations (including cPanel).

Downside Number 5: More than 120 web hosting CP sections to memorize... swiftly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the CP. It's a superb idea to get familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better pick them up rapidly... That's extremely arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web hosting distributors:

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