What Indeed is cPanel Hosting?

For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based web hosting offers on the current web hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite insubstantial marketing niche (as far as annual money flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-sized marketing niche, which furnishes a huge number of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing exactly the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the web hosting offers on the whole web hosting market supply the very same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web hosting price tags are identical. Quite identical. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is only one single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, note that one...

200,000 "web hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded

The web hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us boil down to just one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are just an ordinary fellow who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the web page development procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domain names and web portals. Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any web hosting option you can decide upon? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than 200,000 hosting companies in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ different web hosting brand names all over the world will give you the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the assortment on the contemporary web hosting market is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic reveals that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a great stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably satisfied all web hosting market prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Aspect Number One: A foolish domain folder system

If you have two or more domain names, however, be ultra watchful not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to remove on the web hosting server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous 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 amazing cPanel's domain folder arrangement is:

Are you growing bewildered? We absolutely are!

Inconvenience No.2: The very same e-mail folder setup

The electronic mail folder configuration on the hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chums firmly enhance their faith in God when dealing with the mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too seriously.

Downside Number Three: An utter lack of domain management options

Do we have to mention the entire deficiency of a modern domain administration interface - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, edit domains' Whois details, shield the Whois information, change/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not have such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a great problem. An unjustifiable one, we would like to add...

Disadvantage Number Four: Multiple user login locations (min two, maximum three)

What about the necessity for an extra login to utilize the invoicing transaction, domain and technical support administration section? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web hosting distributor. Sometimes, based on the invoice transaction platform (especially intended for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting distributor is utilizing, the avid users can wind up with 2 extra login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain administration menu; 2: the ticket support tool), ending up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Aspect No.5: 120+ web hosting Control Panel sections to get familiar with... quickly

cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the website hosting CP. It's a wonderful idea to grasp each of them. And you'd better learn them swiftly... That's quite impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one as well...