What Indeed is cPanel Hosting?

For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based hosting offerings on today's web hosting marketplace are furnished by a very insubstantial marketing niche (as far as annual money flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-scale marketing segment, which provides an immense number of different web hosting brand names, yet providing one and the 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 whole web hosting market provide one and the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel hosting price tags are identical. Quite similar. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/web hosting CP option. Thus, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

Two hundred thousand "hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently named

The hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us come down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just a normal person who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the web page making procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and web sites. Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any web hosting alternative you can opt for? Sure there is, now there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting distributors in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ unique web hosting brand names worldwide will give you the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the diversity on the current web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics shows that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is an immense stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The pros and cons of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably met all web hosting industry demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Drawback Number One: A foolish domain folder system

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be ultra cautious not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to delete on the web server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. See for yourself how great cPanel's domain name folder setup is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is situated)
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)
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 name)
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 getting puzzled? We certainly are!

Weak Point Number Two: The very same mail folder structure

The e-mail folder configuration on the server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin boys firmly enhance their faith in God when coping with the mail folders on the mail server, praying not to mess things up too harshly.

Drawback Number Three: An utter deficiency of domain administration options

Do we need to refer to the sheer deficiency of a contemporary domain name management interface - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, modify domains' Whois details, shield the Whois details, alter/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" menu at all. That's a great weakness. An unjustifiable one, we wish to add...

Negative Sign Number 4: Multiple login places (minimum 2, maximum 3)

How about the necessity for an additional login to use the invoice transaction, domain and technical support administration software solution? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel hosting service provider. Occasionally, based on the billing system (particularly built for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel hosting supplier is utilizing, the zealous users can end up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain name management interface; 2: the trouble ticket support section), winding up with a total of 3 user login places (including cPanel).

Negative Aspect Number 5: More than 120 web hosting CP areas to become familiar with... rapidly

cPanel presents to your attention 120+ menus inside the hosting Control Panel. It's a fine idea to grasp each one of them. And you'd better get to know them quickly... That's excessively insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based hosting firms:

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