What is cPanel Hosting?

For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel hosting offers on the contemporary website hosting marketplace are supplied by a very insubstantial marketing segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-scale marketing niche, which generates a big number of different web hosting brand names, yet offering the very same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the hosting offerings on the entire web hosting market provide the very same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel hosting price tags are identical. Very much alike. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is only one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

Two hundred thousand "hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled

The hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google shows to us come down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Assume you are merely an ordinary fellow who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the site development processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domains and web portals. Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any web hosting option you can select? Of course there is, now there are more than 200,000 web hosting service providers out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different web hosting brand names across the world will give you absolutely the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the diversity on the current website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic shows that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a mammoth stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly satisfied all web hosting market demands. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weak Side No.1: A moronic domain name folder configuration

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

Are you becoming puzzled? We clearly are!

Inconvenience Number 2: The same email folder structure

The email folder configuration on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chums firmly strengthen their belief in God when handling the e-mail folders on the email server, praying not to bungle things up too irretrievably.

Negative Point Number 3: A complete absence of domain name manipulation interfaces

Do we have to point out the utter deficiency of a modern domain name administration platform - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domains' Whois information, shield the Whois information, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not contain such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a great downside. An unjustifiable one, we want to point out...

Predicament Number 4: Numerous user login locations (minimum 2, maximum three)

What about the necessity for an extra login to use the billing transaction, domain name and technical support administration section? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based hosting distributor. At times, depending on the invoicing transaction tool (principally devised for cPanel solely) the cPanel hosting company is availing of, the zealous users can wind up with 2 additional logins (1: the billing transaction/domain name management software solution; 2: the trouble ticket support section), ending up with an aggregate of three user login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Side Number Five: 120+ website hosting CP areas to grasp... rapidly

cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 areas inside the website hosting CP. It's a superb idea to become acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better learn them briskly... That's inordinately arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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