What Indeed is cPanel Website Hosting?

For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based hosting offers on the present-day website hosting marketplace are generated by a quite insignificant marketing segment (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-size business segment, which generates a vast amount of different web hosting brands, yet supplying strictly the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the hosting offers on the entire website hosting market supply precisely the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel hosting price tags are alike. Very much alike. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other hosting platform/website hosting CP choice. So, there is merely a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, note that one...

200,000 "hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed

The hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us boil down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just a regular person who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the web page development processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domain names and online portals. Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any hosting alternative you can decide upon? Of course there is, as of now there are more than 200k website hosting companies out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand unique website hosting brand names worldwide will offer you the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the assortment on the current web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a big strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly met all web hosting business prerequisites. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Inconvenience Number 1: A foolish domain name folder system

If you have two or more domain names, though, be very cautious 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). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to erase on the web hosting server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular 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 delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Verify for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain name folder setup is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is placed)
public_html/my-family (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-domain.com (an add-on domain name)
public_html/my-second-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-wife.net (an add-on domain name)
public_html/my-third-domain.com (an add-on domain name)
public_html/my-third-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-third-wife.net (an add-on domain name)
public_html/rebeka (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/rebeka.my-third-wife.net (a sub-domain of an add-on domain name)

Are you getting confused? We categorically are!

Weak Point Number 2: The same mail folder setup

The e-mail folder arrangement on the web server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin boys firmly strengthen their faith in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to botch things up too fatally.

Negative Aspect Number 3: An utter deficiency of domain manipulation interfaces

Do we need to mention the thorough deficiency of a contemporary domain administration platform - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, modify domain names' Whois details, protect the Whois details, alter/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not supply such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a vast downside. An unjustifiable one, we wish to point out...

Inconvenience Number 4: Multiple user login locations (minimum two, max three)

What about the necessity for an additional login to utilize the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support administration software? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based hosting service provider. At times, on the basis of the billing transaction system (particularly tailored for cPanel only) the cPanel hosting service provider is utilizing, the devoted customers can wind up with two extra login places (1: the billing transaction/domain administration interface; 2: the trouble ticket support menu), winding up with a total of three user login locations (including cPanel).

Weakness Number Five: More than 120 web hosting CP menus to grasp... swiftly

cPanel presents for your consideration 120+ sections inside the web hosting CP. It's a marvelous idea to become acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them rapidly... That's quite insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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