What Indeed is cPanel Hosting?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel web hosting offers on the current website hosting market are generated by a quite insignificant business niche (when it comes to annual cash flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-scale business segment, which furnishes a big quantity of different web hosting brands, yet providing one and the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the hosting offers on the whole website hosting marketplace offer one and the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting price tags are alike. Very similar. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/CP choice. Thus, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200k website hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, mark that one...

200,000 "web hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed

The web hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google reveals to us come down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Imagine you are simply a normal bloke who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web site making processes and the hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domain names and web pages. Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any website hosting variant you can opt for? Of course there is, at present there are more than 200k website hosting vendors in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different web hosting brands around the world will offer you the very same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, branded differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the variety on the contemporary web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple mathematics shows that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a colossal stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

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

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably satisfied all web hosting business preconditions. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Point Number One: A foolish domain folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be ultra cautious not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to erase on the hosting server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. See for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain name folder arrangement is:

Are you getting disorientated? We unquestionably are!

Problem Number Two: The same e-mail folder structure

The e-mail folder structure on the hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chaps firmly fortify their belief in God when tackling the email folders on the mail server, praying not to mess things up too badly.

Weakness Number Three: A sheer deficiency of domain name administration options

Do we have to mention the utter lack of a contemporary domain manipulation user interface - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, edit domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois information, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" menu at all. That's a considerable downside. An unforgivable one, we want to point out...

Predicament Number Four: Multiple login locations (min 2, max three)

How about the need for an additional login to make use of the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support administration system? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web hosting distributor. At times, based on the invoicing tool (particularly intended for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting service provider is making use of, the avid clients can end up with two extra login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration menu; 2: the trouble ticket support software platform), ending up with a total of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).

Predicament Number 5: More than 120 web hosting CP areas to grasp... promptly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's an excellent idea to become familiar with each of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them swiftly... That's quite insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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