What Exactly is cPanel Website Hosting?

For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel hosting offers on the current web hosting market are generated by a quite insubstantial marketing niche (as far as annual money flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-size business niche, which generates a big number of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering the very same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offers on the whole web hosting marketplace supply one and the very same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting price tags are identical. Quite identical. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is simply one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, mind that one...

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

The hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us boil down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are merely a regular person who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the site development procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the various domain names and web portals. Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any website hosting option you can select? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than 200,000 web hosting corporations in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ different hosting brand names all over the world will offer you the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the diversity on today's web hosting market is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic shows that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a big stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably answered most web hosting industry demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weakness No.1: A moronic domain name folder arrangement

If you have two or more domains, however, be extra attentive not to delete entirely 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 domains are very easy to delete on the hosting server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular 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 try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. See for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain folder system is:

Are you getting confused? We categorically are!

Downside Number 2: The same e-mail folder configuration

The email folder configuration on the server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin boys strongly enhance their belief in God when managing the mail folders on the email server, hoping not to screw things up too badly.

Predicament No.3: A sheer absence of domain administration sections

Do we have to cite the total deficiency of a contemporary domain name manipulation interface - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, alter domains' Whois details, protect the Whois details, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "modern" section at all. That's a big disadvantage. An unjustifiable one, we wish to point out...

Inconvenience Number Four: Numerous login locations (min two, max three)

How about the demand for an additional login to access the billing transaction, domain and tech support administration GUI? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based hosting provider. Sometimes, on the basis of the billing transaction system (especially conceived for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel hosting provider is utilizing, the earnest clients can wind up with 2 additional login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management software; 2: the ticket support interface), ending up with a total of 3 login places (including cPanel).

Predicament No.5: More than 120 website hosting CP departments to get to know... briskly

cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the web hosting CP. It's a wonderful idea to memorize each one of them. And you'd better learn them briskly... That's excessively arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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