What In Fact is cPanel Hosting?

For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based hosting offers on the current web hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite insignificant marketing niche (when it comes to yearly money flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small marketing niche, which provides a vast amount of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing the very same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offerings on the entire web hosting marketplace provide absolutely the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel hosting price tags are identical. Quite similar. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service practically no other hosting platform/website hosting CP alternative. So, there is just one fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded

The hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us come down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Assume you are just a normal bloke who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the web page creation processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domains and web sites. Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any web hosting alternative you can select? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than 200k web hosting service providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ unique hosting brand names in the world will give you the very same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the diversity on the current website hosting market is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic shows that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a mammoth stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel hosting solution

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

Disadvantage No.1: A ludicrous domain name folder system

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be ultra careful not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to remove on the server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite 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 try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Check for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name folder structure is:

Are you becoming baffled? We doubtlessly are!

Predicament No.2: The same mail folder setup

The e-mail folder configuration on the web server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes strongly fortify their belief in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the email server, hoping not to bungle things up too fatally.

Weak Side No.3: A thorough shortage of domain name administration tools

Do we need to bring up the sheer absence of a contemporary domain manipulation menu - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, modify domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois information, alter/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a considerable disadvantage. An unforgivable one, we wish to add...

Negative Aspect No.4: Many user login places (minimum 2, maximum three)

What about the necessity for another login to utilize the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support administration user interface? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based hosting distributor. Now and then, depending on the invoicing tool (principally conceived for cPanel solely) the cPanel hosting vendor is using, the avid clients can end up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management section; 2: the trouble ticket support interface), winding up with a total of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).

Weak Point No.5: More than 120 Control Panel areas to grasp... rapidly

cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the hosting Control Panel. It's a fantastic idea to get familiar with each of them. And you'd better get to know them rapidly... That's excessively impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based hosting companies:

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