What Exactly is cPanel Hosting?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based web hosting offers on the present-day web hosting market are provided by a quite insubstantial business segment (when it comes to yearly cash flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-scale marketing niche, which generates a big number of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing the very same services: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offers on the entire website hosting market supply precisely the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting prices are similar. Quite identical. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel option. So, there is just one 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 2 percent, note that one...

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

The web hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us come down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Assume you are just an average person who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the website making procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domains and web portals. Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web hosting variant you can pick? Of course there is, now there are more than 200k hosting distributors out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different hosting brands in the world will give you literally the same cPanel CP and platform, branded in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the diversity on today's hosting market is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math shows that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a colossal stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps fulfilled all web hosting industry preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Aspect Number 1: An imbecilic domain folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extra attentive not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to remove on the web server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located 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. Discover for yourself how good cPanel's domain folder system is:

Are you growing nonplussed? We surely are!

Negative Point No.2: The same email folder setup

The e-mail folder structure on the server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin chums firmly fortify their faith in God when managing the email folders on the mail server, praying not to botch things up too fatally.

Downside Number Three: A total lack of domain name manipulation sections

Do we have to point out the thorough deficiency of a contemporary domain administration interface - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, modify domains' Whois information, shield the Whois details, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a great weakness. An unpardonable one, we want to point out...

Weakness Number 4: Numerous user login locations (min 2, maximum 3)

How about the necessity for an extra login to use the invoicing transaction, domain name and technical support administration software solution? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web hosting company. Sometimes, on the basis of the invoicing system (particularly devised for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting company is making use of, the avid customers can end up with two additional login locations (1: the invoicing/domain management software; 2: the ticket support software solution), ending up with an aggregate of three user login places (counting cPanel).

Inconvenience Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty Control Panel areas to become familiar with... fast

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 menus inside the web hosting CP. It's a marvelous idea to get acquainted with each of them. And you'd better learn them quickly... That's inordinately insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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