What is cPanel Hosting?

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based hosting offers on the current web hosting marketplace are provided by a quite inconsiderable business segment (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-scale business segment, which provides a huge amount of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing literally the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the website hosting offers on the entire website hosting market provide precisely the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel hosting price tags are alike. Quite identical. Giving those who need a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/website hosting CP alternative. So, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200k website hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

200k "hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled

The hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us come down to just one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are simply a normal guy who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the site creation procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domains and websites. Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any website hosting variant you can settle on? Sure there is, right now there are more than 200k web hosting suppliers out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different web hosting brands worldwide will give you exactly the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the variety on the present-day website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple mathematics reveals that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a gigantic stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel-based hosting solution

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

Drawback Number 1: An imbecilic domain folder system

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be ultra cautious not to erase fully 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). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to delete on the hosting server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular 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 attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Decide for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain name folder setup is:

Are you getting confused? We surely are!

Shortcoming Number Two: The same email folder structure

The e-mail folder structure on the web server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin guys strongly strengthen their faith in God when coping with the electronic mail folders on the email server, hoping not to screw things up too harshly.

Problem Number Three: A complete lack of domain administration menus

Do we have to refer to the sheer deficiency of a modern domain name management interface - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, edit domains' Whois info, secure the Whois information, change/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" section at all. That's an immense downside. An unjustifiable one, we wish to add...

Disadvantage No.4: Many user login places (minimum 2, max 3)

What about the necessity for an additional login to make use of the billing transaction, domain and technical support management GUI? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel hosting vendor. Occasionally, depending on the invoicing tool (particularly created for cPanel solely) the cPanel hosting corporation is making use of, the eager users can end up with 2 additional logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration software; 2: the ticket support section), winding up with an aggregate of three user login locations (including cPanel).

Inconvenience Number 5: 120+ Control Panel areas to get acquainted with... fast

cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 sections inside the website hosting CP. It's a marvelous idea to pick up each of them. And you'd better get to know them promptly... That's inordinately insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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