What Indeed is cPanel Hosting?

For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel website hosting offers on the present-day website hosting marketplace are generated by a quite insignificant business segment (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-size marketing segment, which furnishes a great amount of different web hosting brands, yet supplying absolutely the same services: mostly 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 offers on the entire web hosting market furnish the very same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel website hosting price tags are alike. Very much alike. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/web hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is simply one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, note that one...

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

The website hosting "variety" and the hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us boil down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just a regular guy who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the site creation processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domain names and sites. Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web hosting alternative you can choose? Sure there is, as of now there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting vendors in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique web hosting brand names all over the world will offer you the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, named differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the variety on the present-day web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple mathematics reveals that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a great stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will occur! Less than one in 50...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps satisfied all web hosting industry requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Inconvenience No.1: An idiotic domain folder configuration

If you have two or more domains, however, be very watchful not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new 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 web hosting server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous 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. Decide for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain folder system is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is located)
public_html/my-family (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-domain.com (an add-on domain)
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)

Are you becoming disorientated? We undeniably are!

Weak Side No.2: The same email folder structure

The email folder arrangement on the hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin chaps firmly increase their belief in God when managing the mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to botch things up too irretrievably.

Negative Aspect Number Three: A total absence of domain manipulation interfaces

Do we need to bring up the utter lack of a contemporary domain manipulation platform - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, change domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois info, change/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not contain such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a major problem. An unforgivable one, we want to point out...

Weakness No.4: Multiple user login places (min two, maximum three)

What about the demand for an additional login to utilize the billing, domain and tech support management user interface? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based website hosting corporation. Now and then, on the basis of the invoicing transaction system (principally tailored for cPanel only) the cPanel website hosting company is availing of, the zealous users can wind up with two extra login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management software; 2: the trouble ticket support section), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login places (counting cPanel).

Shortcoming No.5: More than 120 website hosting Control Panel sections to grasp... swiftly

cPanel presents for your consideration 120+ menus inside the web hosting CP. It's a great idea to get familiar with each of them. And you'd better grasp them fast... That's quite 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 know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one as well...