What is cPanel Hosting?

For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel hosting offers on the contemporary web hosting market are provided by a very inconsiderable business segment (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-scale marketing niche, which furnishes an enormous quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing absolutely the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offerings on the entire website hosting market provide strictly the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting prices are alike. Quite similar. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/website hosting CP alternative. So, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mark that one...

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

The hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offers" Google shows to us come down to just one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are merely an average fellow who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the website development processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domains and sites. Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any website hosting alternative you can choose? Of course there is, today there are more than 200,000 web hosting corporations in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ different web hosting brand names across the world will offer you exactly the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the diversity on the contemporary web hosting market is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple arithmetic reveals that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a big strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps covered most hosting business preconditions. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Side Number One: A dumb domain folder arrangement

If you have two or more domains, though, be ultra attentive not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to delete on the web hosting server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Discover for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain name folder arrangement is:

Are you getting bewildered? We definitely are!

Shortcoming Number 2: The very same email folder structure

The email folder configuration on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly strengthen their faith in God when coping with the electronic mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too badly.

Weakness Number 3: An absolute lack of domain name administration sections

Do we need to point out the sheer absence of a modern domain name management tool - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domain names' Whois details, protect the Whois details, change/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not supply such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a mammoth problem. An unpardonable one, we would like to add...

Drawback Number 4: Multiple login locations (minimum two, max 3)

What about the demand for an extra login to use the invoicing transaction, domain name and technical support management interface? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based hosting supplier. Sometimes, on the basis of the invoicing transaction platform (particularly invented for cPanel solely) the cPanel hosting corporation is making use of, the enthusiastic clients can end up with two extra login locations (1: the billing/domain administration system; 2: the ticket support interface), winding up with a total of 3 user login places (including cPanel).

Disadvantage Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty website hosting Control Panel departments to get to know... quickly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the website hosting CP. It's a marvelous idea to get familiar with each of them. And you'd better pick them up promptly... That's way too impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel hosting companies:

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