What Actually is cPanel Hosting?

For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based web hosting offerings on the present-day website hosting market are generated by a very insubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to yearly money flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-size marketing niche, which furnishes a huge amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying exactly the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the website hosting offers on the entire website hosting market supply one and the very same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web hosting price tags are similar. Quite identical. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200,000 hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

200k "web hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded

The web hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us come down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are simply an ordinary fellow who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web site creation processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domain names and web portals. Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web hosting alternative you can select? Sure there is, as of now there are more than 200,000 website hosting corporations out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ different website hosting brand names all over the world will offer you the very same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the diversity on the present-day website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple arithmetic shows that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a great strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably fulfilled all web hosting industry demands. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weak Point Number 1: A ludicrous domain folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be very attentive not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to erase on the web server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain folder arrangement is:

Are you getting puzzled? We categorically are!

Weak Side Number 2: The very same mail folder arrangement

The e-mail folder structure on the server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes strongly reinforce their faith in God when dealing with the mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to bungle things up too fatally.

Weakness Number 3: An entire deficiency of domain administration menus

Do we have to cite the absolute deficiency of a modern domain management GUI - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, alter domains' Whois information, shield the Whois info, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a colossal disadvantage. An unforgettable one, we wish to add...

Negative Point No.4: Numerous user login places (min 2, max three)

What about the demand for another login to access the billing transaction, domain name and tech support administration GUI? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web hosting company. At times, depending on the invoicing system (especially tailored for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting company is making use of, the earnest customers can end up with 2 extra logins (1: the invoicing/domain name administration software solution; 2: the ticket support software solution), winding up with a total of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).

Negative Aspect Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty website hosting CP menus to get to know... fast

cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 departments inside the website hosting CP. It's a great idea to become familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better memorize them rapidly... That's very impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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