What In Fact is cPanel Web Hosting?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based web hosting offerings on the present web hosting marketplace are provided by a very insubstantial business niche (when it comes to annual cash flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small business segment, which provides a great number of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying one and the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the web hosting offers on the whole hosting marketplace furnish strictly the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web hosting prices are similar. Very identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/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%, remark that one...

Two hundred thousand "web hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named

The web hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us boil down to just one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Imagine you are simply a normal bloke who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the site development processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the different domain names and online portals. Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any website hosting alternative you can decide upon? Sure there is, right now there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting companies in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different web hosting brands all over the world will offer you literally the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the variety on the contemporary hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple math shows that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a gigantic strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably satisfied all web hosting market demands. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Side Number One: A stupid domain folder setup

If you have two or more domain names, though, be very careful not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite 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 is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how great cPanel's domain folder setup is:

Are you growing confused? We doubtlessly are!

Shortcoming Number 2: The same email folder setup

The e-mail folder configuration on the server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys firmly fortify their faith in God when handling the e-mail folders on the mail server, praying not to muck things up too harshly.

Shortcoming No.3: An utter lack of domain name management GUIs

Do we have to cite the complete shortage of a contemporary domain management user interface - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, modify domains' Whois details, shield the Whois information, change/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a colossal disadvantage. An unjustifiable one, we wish to point out...

Downside Number Four: Multiple user login places (min 2, maximum three)

What about the necessity for another login to access the billing transaction, domain name and tech support administration GUI? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web hosting corporation. At times, on the basis of the invoicing tool (principally developed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting service provider is using, the ardent users can wind up with two extra logins (1: the invoicing/domain management menu; 2: the trouble ticket support platform), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (including cPanel).

Problem Number Five: 120+ web hosting CP sections to pick up... briskly

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 departments inside the web hosting CP. It's a remarkable idea to memorize each one of them. And you'd better learn them briskly... That's way too insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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