What Indeed is cPanel Web Hosting?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based web hosting offers on the present-day website hosting market are provided by a quite inconsiderable marketing segment (when it comes to annual money flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-size marketing segment, which generates a great amount of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing absolutely the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offers on the whole website hosting market supply exactly the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web hosting price tags are identical. Very identical. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/website hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is only one fact: out of more than 200k web hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...

200k "web hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled

The web hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us boil down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are merely an ordinary guy who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the website development procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domain names and websites. Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any web hosting option you can select? Of course there is, right now there are more than 200,000 web hosting companies in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand unique website hosting brands across the world will offer you the very same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, branded differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the diversity on the current web hosting market is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math demonstrates that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a big strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably fulfilled most hosting market prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weakness No.1: A ludicrous domain folder configuration

If you have two or more domain names, though, be extra watchful not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to remove on the server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular 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 erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain name folder structure is:

Are you becoming puzzled? We unquestionably are!

Negative Aspect Number Two: The very same email folder arrangement

The email folder structure on the hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin blokes strongly reinforce their belief in God when tackling the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to muck things up too gravely.

Drawback Number Three: An absolute shortage of domain name manipulation menus

Do we need to bring up the entire lack of a contemporary domain administration GUI - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, alter domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois details, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not supply such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a major problem. An unforgettable one, we wish to add...

Weak Point Number Four: Numerous user login locations (minimum two, max three)

How about the need for an extra login to use the billing, domain name and technical support administration system? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web hosting firm. Occasionally, depending on the invoice transaction system (particularly created for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting distributor is making use of, the zealous clients can wind up with two extra logins (1: the invoicing/domain name administration software solution; 2: the trouble ticket support menu), winding up with an aggregate of three user login places (including cPanel).

Inconvenience Number 5: 120+ web hosting CP menus to get acquainted with... briskly

cPanel offers to your attention 120+ menus inside the web hosting CP. It's an excellent idea to memorize each one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them swiftly... That's way too impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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