What is cPanel Hosting?

For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel web hosting offers on today's web hosting market are supplied by a quite insignificant business niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-size marketing niche, which provides a huge amount of different web hosting brand names, yet providing one and the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offers on the whole website hosting marketplace provide precisely the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity 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 website hosting platform/web hosting CP choice. Thus, there is simply one single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

200,000 "web hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet diversely named

The web hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us come down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Assume you are just an average fellow who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the site making processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domain names and web sites. Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any website hosting option you can opt for? Sure there is, at present there are more than 200,000 web hosting service providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ different web hosting brands around the world will offer you the very same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, branded differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the diversity on the contemporary hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math reveals that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is an enormous strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps fulfilled all website hosting industry prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Disadvantage No.1: A laughable domain name folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extremely watchful not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to erase on the hosting server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Determine for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name folder configuration is:

Are you growing nonplussed? We undeniably are!

Drawback Number 2: The very same electronic mail folder structure

The email folder configuration on the server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin boys firmly increase their belief in God when managing the e-mail folders on the email server, hoping not to mess things up too fatally.

Disadvantage Number Three: An utter deficiency of domain name administration tools

Do we need to bring up the sheer lack of a modern domain name administration GUI - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois info, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a big predicament. An unforgivable one, we want to point out...

Negative Point Number 4: Multiple user login places (min two, max 3)

How about the need for an additional login to make use of the billing transaction, domain and tech support management GUI? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web hosting vendor. Occasionally, depending on the invoicing transaction tool (particularly devised for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting supplier is utilizing, the zealous customers can end up with 2 additional login places (1: the invoicing/domain name management software solution; 2: the ticket support software solution), winding up with a total of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).

Negative Side Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty hosting CP sections to get acquainted with... promptly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the website hosting CP. It's a fabulous idea to get familiar with each of them. And you'd better grasp them rapidly... That's inordinately insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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