What is cPanel Hosting?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based Hosting offerings on today's web hosting market are supplied by a quite insignificant business segment (when it comes to yearly money flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small business niche, which generates a great number of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing one and the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offerings on the whole website hosting market provide literally the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel Hosting price tags are identical. Quite identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other hosting platform/web hosting CP alternative. So, there is only one fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...

200,000 "Hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled

The Hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google presents to us come down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Suppose you are only a normal bloke who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web page making procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domains and web portals. Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any hosting alternative you can settle on? Of course there is, as of now there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting distributors in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique website hosting brands around the world will give you literally the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, named differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the diversity on the current web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The Hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math demonstrates that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a mammoth stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel Hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably satisfied all web hosting industry requirements. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weakness Number One: A dumb domain folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extremely attentive not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new 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 hosting server, since they all are set up 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 placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain folder structure is:

Are you growing confused? We absolutely are!

Disadvantage Number Two: The same e-mail folder setup

The email folder arrangement on the web server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin chums firmly reinforce their belief in God when tackling the email folders on the email server, praying not to muck things up too gravely.

Weakness Number 3: A total absence of domain name administration menus

Do we have to mention the total shortage of a modern domain name manipulation interface - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, change domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois details, change/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" interface at all. That's a huge drawback. An unpardonable one, we want to point out...

Negative Aspect No.4: Many login places (min two, maximum 3)

How about the demand for an additional login to access the billing transaction, domain name and tech support management interface? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based Hosting corporation. At times, based on the invoice transaction system (particularly conceived for cPanel only) the cPanel Hosting company is utilizing, the avid clients can end up with 2 extra login locations (1: the invoicing/domain name administration section; 2: the trouble ticket support menu), winding up with an aggregate of three login places (including cPanel).

Negative Side Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting CP sections to get acquainted with... fast

cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 sections inside the hosting Control Panel. It's a remarkable idea to get familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better pick them up rapidly... That's way too impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Hosting vendors:

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