What Actually is cPanel Hosting?

For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based hosting offers on today's website hosting marketplace are provided by a quite inconsiderable marketing niche (when it comes to annual cash flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-scale business niche, which provides a big number of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying one and the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offers on the whole website hosting marketplace provide the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel hosting price tags are identical. Quite similar. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200k website hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

200k "hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed

The hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us come down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Assume you are simply an average chap who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the web site making procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and sites. Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any website hosting option you can decide upon? Of course there is, today there are more than 200,000 web hosting companies in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ different web hosting brand names all over the world will give you strictly the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the assortment on the present-day web hosting market is... Period.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple math demonstrates that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a gigantic stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The pros and cons of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps met all website hosting business prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Disadvantage Number 1: An imbecilic domain name folder setup

If you have two or more domains, however, be ultra attentive not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to erase on the web server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular 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 domain names, please. Determine for yourself how great cPanel's domain folder arrangement is:

Are you becoming perplexed? We definitely are!

Downside Number Two: The very same e-mail folder structure

The electronic mail folder structure on the server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin guys strongly increase their faith in God when tackling the email folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to screw things up too badly.

Drawback Number 3: An absolute shortage of domain name administration sections

Do we need to refer to the complete lack of a modern domain name manipulation user interface - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, modify domains' Whois info, shield the Whois details, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a great inconvenience. An inexcusable one, we would like to point out...

Negative Aspect Number 4: Many login locations (minimum two, maximum 3)

What about the need for another login to access the invoice transaction, domain name and tech support administration GUI? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based hosting distributor. At times, on the basis of the invoicing transaction tool (particularly built for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel hosting distributor is utilizing, the enthusiastic clients can end up with 2 extra login locations (1: the billing/domain name administration menu; 2: the ticket support interface), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).

Negative Sign Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty website hosting CP departments to become acquainted with... quickly

cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the hosting CP. It's a terrific idea to pick up each and every one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them briskly... That's very insolent on cPanel's side.

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

As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one as well...