What is cPanel Hosting?

For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based hosting offerings on the present hosting market are generated by a very insubstantial business niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a kind of a small-sized marketing segment, which furnishes a huge number of different web hosting brand names, yet offering the very same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offers on the whole website hosting marketplace furnish precisely the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting prices are alike. Quite similar. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is only a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, note that one...

200k "hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed

The hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us boil down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are just a normal guy who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the site development procedures and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domain names and websites. Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web hosting option you can settle on? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than 200k hosting companies out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ different website hosting brands across the world will offer you the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the assortment on the present web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple math demonstrates that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a great strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably fulfilled all web hosting market preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Drawback Number One: A dumb domain name folder structure

If you have two or more domain names, though, be ultra careful not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to delete on the web hosting server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. See for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain folder configuration is:

Are you becoming disorientated? We positively are!

Negative Side No.2: The very same mail folder configuration

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys strongly reinforce their faith in God when managing the email folders on the e-mail server, praying not to bungle things up too fatally.

Negative Aspect Number 3: A complete shortage of domain name administration GUIs

Do we need to mention the entire absence of a contemporary domain name manipulation GUI - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, modify domains' Whois information, protect the Whois information, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" tool at all. That's an immense downside. An unforgivable one, we wish to point out...

Problem No.4: Multiple user login locations (min 2, maximum 3)

How about the necessity for another login to utilize the invoicing, domain name and technical support management interface? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel hosting corporation. At times, on the basis of the invoicing system (especially meant for cPanel solely) the cPanel hosting vendor is availing of, the eager customers can wind up with 2 extra login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain name management interface; 2: the trouble ticket support software platform), ending up with a total of three login places (counting cPanel).

Weakness Number Five: More than 120 website hosting Control Panel departments to become acquainted with... promptly

cPanel offers to your attention 120+ areas inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a remarkable idea to get familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better learn them briskly... That's quite insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel hosting service providers:

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