What In Fact is cPanel Hosting?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel hosting offerings on the current website hosting market are provided by a quite insubstantial business niche (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-scale business niche, which provides an immense quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering one and the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the hosting offerings on the entire web hosting marketplace supply absolutely the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting prices are alike. Very identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/website hosting CP option. So, there is simply one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

200k "hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded

The hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offers" Google shows 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 trademarked names. Imagine you are simply an average bloke who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the site development procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the various domains and sites. Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web hosting option you can decide upon? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than 200k web hosting corporations out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique website hosting brands around the world will give you exactly the same cPanel Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the variety on the present-day hosting market is... Period.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple math reveals that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a mammoth stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps fulfilled most hosting business preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Sign No.1: A ludicrous domain folder arrangement

If you have two or more domain names, though, be extremely watchful not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to remove on the server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Determine for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain folder setup is:

Are you becoming perplexed? We undoubtedly are!

Problem No.2: The very same e-mail folder system

The email folder arrangement on the web hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys strongly enhance their faith in God when tackling the email folders on the email server, praying not to botch things up too fatally.

Predicament Number Three: A complete shortage of domain name management sections

Do we have to cite the absolute shortage of a contemporary domain name management user interface - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, change domains' Whois info, secure the Whois details, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a big disadvantage. An unforgivable one, we want to add...

Disadvantage Number Four: Numerous login places (min two, maximum three)

How about the demand for another login to access the billing transaction, domain name and technical support administration section? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based hosting company. Now and then, on the basis of the billing transaction system (especially intended for cPanel only) the cPanel hosting vendor is utilizing, the avid customers can end up with two extra login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain administration software platform; 2: the trouble ticket support software solution), ending up with an aggregate of three user login places (including cPanel).

Drawback Number 5: 120+ web hosting CP menus to pick up... rapidly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's an excellent idea to become familiar with each of them. And you'd better get to know them fast... That's quite arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel hosting providers:

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