What Indeed is cPanel Hosting?

For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel website hosting offerings on the contemporary web hosting marketplace are generated by a quite unsubstantial business niche (when it comes to yearly cash flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-size marketing niche, which provides a huge amount of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing the very same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offerings on the entire web hosting market offer the very same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting prices are identical. Very identical. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/web hosting CP alternative. So, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200k website hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...

Two hundred thousand "website hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named

The website hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us come down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just a regular guy who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the web page creation procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and online portals. Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any hosting alternative you can pick? Sure there is, at present there are more than 200,000 web hosting vendors in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand unique website hosting brands across the world will offer you the very same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the variety on today's web hosting market is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple mathematics shows that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a huge strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps satisfied all website hosting business requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Predicament No.1: A laughable domain folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be very watchful not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to remove on the web server, because they all are located 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 located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Decide for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain folder arrangement 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)
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 growing perplexed? We clearly are!

Negative Aspect No.2: The very same email folder system

The electronic mail folder configuration on the hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The admin boys firmly enhance their faith in God when managing the email folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to screw things up too fatally.

Predicament Number Three: A sheer shortage of domain manipulation menus

Do we need to mention the absolute deficiency of a modern domain management interface - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, modify domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois info, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a colossal downside. An unjustifiable one, we wish to point out...

Weak Point Number Four: Many user login places (minimum 2, maximum three)

What about the necessity for an extra login to avail of the billing transaction, domain name and technical support management platform? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel website hosting provider. Sometimes, on the basis of the billing transaction system (particularly devised for cPanel only) the cPanel website hosting provider is using, the zealous customers can wind up with 2 extra logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration user interface; 2: the ticket support platform), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).

Downside Number 5: More than 120 web hosting Control Panel menus to get acquainted with... promptly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the web hosting CP. It's a terrific idea to get acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better pick them up briskly... That's way too insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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