What is cPanel Hosting?

For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel web hosting offers on the present website hosting market are generated by a very insubstantial business segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-sized marketing niche, which supplies a great quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet offering the very same services: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offerings on the whole website hosting marketplace provide one and the very same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting price tags are alike. Very similar. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/website hosting CP option. Thus, there is merely a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

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

The web hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offers" Google presents to us boil down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Suppose you are merely a regular person who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the site creation procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the different domain names and web sites. Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any website hosting variant you can settle on? Sure there is, at present there are more than 200k website hosting suppliers in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique website hosting brand names worldwide will give you the very same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the variety on today's website hosting market is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a colossal strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably covered all hosting industry demands. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Problem Number 1: A foolish domain folder configuration

If you have two or more domain names, though, be ultra cautious not to delete entirely 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 domains are quite simple to erase on the hosting server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name 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. Verify for yourself how good cPanel's domain name folder arrangement is:

Are you getting puzzled? We unquestionably are!

Weak Side Number Two: The very same email folder configuration

The email folder structure on the hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly increase their faith in God when coping with the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too severely.

Disadvantage No.3: A total absence of domain management user interfaces

Do we need to mention the total lack of a contemporary domain administration menu - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, change domains' Whois details, shield the Whois info, change/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a great drawback. An unforgivable one, we want to add...

Shortcoming Number Four: Multiple login places (minimum 2, max 3)

How about the demand for an extra login to use the billing, domain name and tech support management user interface? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web hosting provider. Sometimes, depending on the billing tool (especially devised for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting corporation is availing of, the eager customers can end up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain management software platform; 2: the ticket support software solution), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (including cPanel).

Weak Point Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty website hosting CP departments to get to know... quickly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the web hosting CP. It's a remarkable idea to get to know each and every one of them. And you'd better grasp them promptly... That's extremely impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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