What Indeed is cPanel Website Hosting?

For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based hosting offers on the current website hosting market are furnished by a very insignificant marketing niche (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-sized marketing niche, which provides a huge amount of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing one and the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offerings on the entire web hosting market provide precisely the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel hosting prices are alike. Quite similar. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/website hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is merely one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, note that one...

200k "hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded

The hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us boil down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Assume you are merely a regular person who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the website development procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domain names and sites. Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any web hosting variant you can pick? Sure there is, right now there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting providers out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different website hosting brands around the world will give you the same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the assortment on today's website hosting market is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple math demonstrates that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a big stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably met most web hosting market requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Shortcoming No.1: An imbecilic domain name folder system

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extremely careful not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to delete on the hosting server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known 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 attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain name folder configuration is:

Are you getting puzzled? We doubtlessly are!

Predicament Number Two: The very same email folder structure

The mail folder structure on the server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly strengthen their belief in God when handling the mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to bungle things up too badly.

Inconvenience No.3: An absolute shortage of domain manipulation menus

Do we need to bring up the utter lack of a contemporary domain name management GUI - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domain names' Whois details, shield the Whois details, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" user interface at all. That's an enormous downside. An unforgettable one, we want to point out...

Negative Aspect Number Four: Many login places (minimum two, max three)

How about the need for an extra login to utilize the invoice transaction, domain name and tech support administration system? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based hosting service provider. Sometimes, depending on the invoicing system (particularly created for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel hosting supplier is availing of, the keen users can wind up with 2 additional login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain name management software solution; 2: the ticket support menu), winding up with a total of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).

Disadvantage Number Five: More than 120 hosting Control Panel sections to memorize... rapidly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 menus inside the website hosting CP. It's an excellent idea to get acquainted with each of them. And you'd better grasp them briskly... That's way too impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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