What Indeed is cPanel Hosting?

For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based website hosting offerings on the current website hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite inconsiderable business niche (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-size business segment, which provides an immense quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing literally the same solutions: 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 entire website hosting market supply absolutely the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel website hosting price tags are identical. Very much alike. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is just one fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

200,000 "website hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled

The website hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google shows to us come down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are merely a regular person who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the website development processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the various domain names and sites. Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any web hosting option you can pick? Of course there is, today there are more than 200k web hosting corporations in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand different website hosting brands around the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the assortment on today's web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple math reveals that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a colossal strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

The pros and cons of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably satisfied all hosting industry preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Inconvenience Number 1: An idiotic domain name folder system

If you have two or more domains, though, be very watchful not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to delete on the hosting server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Determine for yourself how great cPanel's domain folder arrangement is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is placed)
public_html/my-family (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-domain.com (an add-on domain name)
public_html/my-second-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-wife.net (an add-on domain)
public_html/my-third-domain.com (an add-on domain name)
public_html/my-third-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-third-wife.net (an add-on domain)
public_html/rebeka (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/rebeka.my-third-wife.net (a sub-domain of an add-on domain name)

Are you getting bewildered? We absolutely are!

Negative Aspect Number 2: The very same email folder arrangement

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin chums firmly enhance their belief in God when managing the mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too harshly.

Negative Point No.3: A total lack of domain name manipulation user interfaces

Do we have to refer to the entire shortage of a contemporary domain manipulation tool - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, alter domains' Whois information, protect the Whois info, change/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a big weakness. An unpardonable one, we want to add...

Shortcoming Number Four: Numerous login locations (minimum 2, max three)

What about the demand for an extra login to make use of the invoice transaction, domain name and technical support administration tool? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based website hosting vendor. Now and then, on the basis of the billing transaction tool (especially tailored for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel website hosting vendor is availing of, the avid clients can end up with two additional login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain administration software platform; 2: the ticket support GUI), ending up with a total of 3 login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Sign Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty hosting CP sections to memorize... swiftly

cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the web hosting CP. It's a terrific idea to memorize each one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them rapidly... That's very impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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