What is cPanel Hosting?

For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based web hosting offers on the present-day website hosting market are supplied by a quite insignificant marketing segment (when it comes to yearly cash flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-sized marketing segment, which supplies a vast quantity of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing one and the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offers on the whole hosting marketplace supply the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting prices are identical. Very much alike. Giving those who need a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/website hosting CP option. Thus, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, note that one...

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

The web hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us boil down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Assume you are merely a regular person who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the site creation processes and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domain names and sites. Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any web hosting alternative you can decide upon? Of course there is, as of now there are more than 200k web hosting firms out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique website hosting brand names across the world will offer you literally the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the variety on the current hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math shows that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a big strike of luck. There is a less than 1 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 severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps fulfilled all website hosting business preconditions. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Downside Number 1: An idiotic domain folder structure

If you have two or more domain names, though, be very careful not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to delete on the hosting server, because they all are created 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 located 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. Determine for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain folder setup is:

Are you growing disorientated? We positively are!

Problem Number 2: The very same electronic mail folder configuration

The email folder structure on the hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly reinforce their faith in God when managing the email folders on the mail server, hoping not to mess things up too severely.

Negative Side No.3: An utter absence of domain name manipulation interfaces

Do we need to point out the sheer absence of a modern domain name management GUI - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, change domains' Whois information, shield the Whois details, change/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's an enormous inconvenience. An inexcusable one, we would like to point out...

Weakness Number 4: Many login locations (minimum two, max 3)

How about the necessity for an extra login to avail of the invoicing, domain and tech support management software? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web hosting corporation. Sometimes, on the basis of the invoicing system (particularly intended for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting supplier is making use of, the eager clients can end up with 2 additional login places (1: the invoicing/domain administration software solution; 2: the ticket support software), ending up with a total of 3 login locations (including cPanel).

Drawback Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty website hosting CP departments to get to know... briskly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 departments inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a marvelous idea to get familiar with each of them. And you'd better pick them up swiftly... That's excessively arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, 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? Mark that one too...