What Indeed is cPanel Hosting?

For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based Hosting offers on the present-day web hosting marketplace are generated by a very unsubstantial business niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-sized business segment, which supplies a huge number of different web hosting brand names, yet providing precisely the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offerings on the entire web hosting marketplace offer the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based Hosting price tags are alike. Very much alike. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other hosting platform/CP choice. Thus, there is only one fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, remark that one...

200k "Hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed

The Hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google shows to us come down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Assume you are just a regular guy who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web page development processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and web portals. Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any web hosting variant you can decide upon? Of course there is, right now there are more than 200,000 hosting service providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique web hosting brands in the world will give you absolutely the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the variety on today's web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The Hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics shows that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is an immense stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel-based Hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably met most website hosting business preconditions. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Side Number 1: A foolish domain name folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extremely attentive not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call 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 hosting server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated 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 marvelous cPanel's domain name folder structure is:

Are you becoming confused? We absolutely are!

Inconvenience Number Two: The same email folder configuration

The mail folder structure on the web server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chums strongly enhance their belief in God when managing the e-mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to muck things up too harshly.

Negative Point No.3: A sheer absence of domain name management options

Do we have to cite the utter absence of a contemporary domain name administration interface - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domains' Whois information, secure the Whois details, change/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a vast problem. An unforgivable one, we wish to point out...

Negative Sign Number Four: Numerous user login places (minimum two, max 3)

How about the necessity for an extra login to avail of the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support management system? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based Hosting vendor. Now and then, on the basis of the billing platform (especially tailored for cPanel solely) the cPanel Hosting corporation is utilizing, the earnest users can wind up with two extra logins (1: the billing transaction/domain name administration user interface; 2: the ticket support software platform), ending up with an aggregate of three user login places (counting cPanel).

Weak Point Number Five: More than 120 website hosting CP departments to get to know... promptly

cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 departments inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a fabulous idea to pick up each of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them swiftly... That's extremely impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Hosting firms:

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