What Indeed is cPanel Hosting?

For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel website hosting offerings on today's web hosting marketplace are generated by a very unsubstantial marketing segment (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small marketing niche, which generates an enormous number of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing precisely the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offerings on the whole website hosting marketplace furnish absolutely the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting prices are identical. Very similar. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "website hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled

The website hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google reveals to us boil down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different hosting brand names. Imagine you are simply an ordinary guy who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web page development processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domains and web portals. Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any hosting variant you can opt for? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting firms out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique website hosting brand names all over the world will give you the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on today's web hosting market is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple math shows that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a great stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably fulfilled all web hosting market demands. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Aspect Number 1: A foolish domain folder configuration

If you have two or more domain names, though, be extra watchful not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to erase on the web server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated 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. Decide for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain folder configuration is:

Are you growing baffled? We definitely are!

Negative Side Number Two: The very same email folder arrangement

The e-mail folder arrangement on the server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Making the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly increase their belief in God when tackling the email folders on the mail server, praying not to screw things up too gravely.

Problem Number 3: A total shortage of domain administration menus

Do we need to bring up the absolute absence of a modern domain manipulation GUI - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domains' Whois info, protect the Whois information, modify/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not supply such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a vast disadvantage. An unjustifiable one, we would like to add...

Negative Side Number 4: Multiple login places (min 2, maximum 3)

What about the necessity for another login to make use of the billing transaction, domain name and technical support administration interface? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based website hosting service provider. Sometimes, depending on the invoice transaction platform (especially meant for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel website hosting supplier is utilizing, the keen clients can end up with two additional logins (1: the billing/domain administration user interface; 2: the trouble ticket support section), ending up with a total of three login locations (counting cPanel).

Negative Side No.5: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting CP areas to get acquainted with... rapidly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a glorious idea to grasp each of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them briskly... That's quite arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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