What Actually is cPanel Hosting?

For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel web hosting offerings on the contemporary hosting marketplace are generated by a quite insubstantial business segment (when it comes to annual money flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-size marketing niche, which generates an immense amount of different web hosting brands, yet supplying strictly 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 entire website hosting marketplace supply strictly the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web hosting price tags are alike. Very identical. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel option. So, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200k hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...

200,000 "web hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled

The web hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google presents to us boil down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are merely an average chap who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the web page making processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domains and sites. Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any hosting variant you can settle on? Of course there is, today there are more than 200k website hosting firms out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different website hosting brands worldwide will offer you literally the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the diversity on today's website hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is an enormous stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The pros and cons of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly satisfied most web hosting business preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Problem No.1: A stupid domain name folder structure

If you have two or more domain names, however, be very watchful not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to remove on the hosting server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very well known 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 domains, please. Check for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain folder configuration is:

Are you getting baffled? We positively are!

Disadvantage No.2: The very same mail folder setup

The mail folder arrangement on the server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin boys firmly fortify their belief in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the email server, hoping not to muck things up too badly.

Negative Point Number 3: An entire absence of domain manipulation menus

Do we have to bring up the complete lack of a modern domain name management menu - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domains' Whois details, secure the Whois details, edit/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" section at all. That's an enormous shortcoming. An unjustifiable one, we would like to point out...

Inconvenience No.4: Numerous login places (min two, max 3)

What about the demand for an extra login to avail of the invoice transaction, domain name and technical support administration platform? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web hosting vendor. At times, on the basis of the billing transaction tool (especially tailored for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting provider is utilizing, the zealous clients can wind up with 2 additional logins (1: the invoicing/domain administration system; 2: the ticket support software platform), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login places (counting cPanel).

Problem No.5: More than 120 web hosting CP areas to become familiar with... quickly

cPanel presents for your consideration 120+ areas inside the website hosting CP. It's a fabulous idea to get to know each one of them. And you'd better memorize them briskly... That's way too arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one as well...