What Exactly is cPanel Hosting?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel hosting offerings on today's web hosting market are provided by a quite insignificant business segment (when it comes to annual money flow) called hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-size marketing niche, which provides an enormous amount of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying one and the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offers on the entire website hosting market offer absolutely the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel hosting prices are identical. Very much alike. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/website hosting CP choice. So, there is simply one single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, mind that one...

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

The hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google presents to us come down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different hosting brand names. Assume you are only a normal bloke who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web site development procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and websites. Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any hosting variant you can select? Of course there is, today there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting firms in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different website hosting brands in the world will give you absolutely the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, named differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the assortment on the present-day web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple math shows that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a gigantic strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably satisfied all hosting industry preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Shortcoming No.1: A ludicrous domain name folder setup

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extra careful not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to remove on the hosting server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain name folder configuration is:

Are you growing puzzled? We unquestionably are!

Weak Point Number 2: The same mail folder structure

The e-mail folder structure on the hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chums strongly enhance their faith in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the email server, hoping not to muck things up too gravely.

Weak Side Number Three: An utter deficiency of domain name manipulation sections

Do we have to bring up the utter shortage of a modern domain name administration interface - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois info, change/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" section at all. That's an enormous problem. An unjustifiable one, we would like to add...

Drawback Number Four: Multiple user login locations (minimum 2, maximum 3)

How about the need for an additional login to make use of the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support administration software? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel hosting vendor. At times, depending on the invoicing transaction system (especially built for cPanel solely) the cPanel hosting distributor is making use of, the eager users can end up with two additional login places (1: the invoicing/domain administration user interface; 2: the trouble ticket support software platform), ending up with a total of three user login locations (including cPanel).

Predicament No.5: 120+ Control Panel sections to get to know... quickly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a glorious idea to get acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them briskly... That's way too insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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