What Indeed is cPanel Hosting?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based web hosting offers on the contemporary website hosting market are provided by a very inconsiderable business niche (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-sized business segment, which supplies an immense amount of different web hosting brands, yet offering strictly the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98% of the website hosting offers on the entire web hosting marketplace furnish strictly the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web hosting prices are similar. Quite similar. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/CP option. Thus, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200k hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, note that one...

200,000 "web hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly branded

The web hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google shows to us come down to just one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are only an average fellow who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the web page creation processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domains and websites. Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any hosting variant you can settle on? Of course there is, right now there are more than 200k website hosting service providers out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand unique web hosting brands all over the world will offer you absolutely the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, dubbed differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the assortment on the contemporary web hosting market is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple mathematics reveals that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is an enormous stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will occur! Less than one in 50...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably fulfilled most website hosting industry requirements. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Inconvenience No.1: A stupid domain name folder setup

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extra attentive not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent 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 remove on the server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain name folder system 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)

Are you growing nonplussed? We clearly are!

Disadvantage Number 2: The same electronic mail folder configuration

The mail folder configuration on the hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin boys strongly increase their faith in God when coping with the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to bungle things up too badly.

Shortcoming Number 3: A thorough lack of domain name management user interfaces

Do we have to point out the total shortage of a modern domain management tool - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois information, modify/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a mammoth disadvantage. An inexcusable one, we wish to add...

Inconvenience No.4: Multiple login places (minimum two, max 3)

How about the necessity for another login to use the billing, domain name and tech support administration menu? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web hosting company. At times, based on the billing tool (especially invented for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting distributor is using, the devoted clients can wind up with 2 additional logins (1: the billing/domain name management GUI; 2: the ticket support GUI), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).

Drawback Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting CP areas to become acquainted with... rapidly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the Control Panel. It's a terrific idea to pick up each of them. And you'd better get to know them quickly... That's extremely arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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