What is cPanel Hosting?

For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based website hosting offerings on the present-day web hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite inconsiderable marketing niche (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-sized marketing niche, which generates a huge number of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying precisely the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the website hosting offerings on the entire hosting marketplace offer precisely the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting price tags are alike. Very identical. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/web hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "website hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet diversely named

The website hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us come down to just one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are only an ordinary fellow who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the web page development procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domain names and web sites. Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any web hosting variant you can choose? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than two hundred thousand hosting companies out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different website hosting brands worldwide will offer you strictly the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, named in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the assortment on the contemporary web hosting market is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple arithmetic reveals that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is an enormous stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps met all hosting market preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Side Number 1: A dumb domain folder configuration

If you have two or more domains, however, be ultra attentive not to delete fully 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 domain names are very easy to erase on the hosting server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known 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 attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Decide for yourself how great cPanel's domain folder arrangement is:

Are you becoming disorientated? We unquestionably are!

Predicament Number 2: The same email folder structure

The email folder structure on the web server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin chums firmly reinforce their faith in God when coping with the mail folders on the mail server, praying not to mess things up too gravely.

Inconvenience Number 3: A complete absence of domain administration GUIs

Do we have to bring up the complete lack of a contemporary domain name administration GUI - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, alter domain names' Whois details, shield the Whois info, change/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" menu at all. That's an enormous predicament. An inexcusable one, we wish to point out...

Negative Side No.4: Numerous user login places (minimum 2, max 3)

What about the need for another login to use the invoicing, domain and tech support administration software? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based website hosting provider. Now and then, depending on the billing platform (principally built for cPanel solely) the cPanel website hosting firm is availing of, the eager users can end up with 2 additional logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management system; 2: the trouble ticket support system), ending up with an aggregate of three login locations (including cPanel).

Disadvantage Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty website hosting Control Panel sections to get acquainted with... quickly

cPanel offers to your attention 120+ departments inside the website hosting CP. It's a wonderful idea to memorize each one of them. And you'd better memorize them rapidly... That's excessively impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting service providers:

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