What Precisely is cPanel Hosting?

For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel web hosting offers on the present web hosting marketplace are supplied 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 business segment, which generates a big quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing one and the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offerings on the whole website hosting market offer exactly the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web hosting price tags are alike. Quite similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/website hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, note that one...

200,000 "web hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled

The web hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us come down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Imagine you are just a regular fellow who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the web site creation processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domain names and online portals. Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any website hosting option you can select? Sure there is, right now there are more than 200,000 website hosting suppliers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different web hosting brand names in the world will offer you exactly the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the diversity on the present-day web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple math demonstrates that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a huge strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably fulfilled most hosting industry demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Problem Number 1: A dumb domain folder structure

If you have two or more domains, though, be extremely cautious not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to delete on the server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known 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 remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain folder configuration is:

Are you getting bewildered? We certainly are!

Shortcoming Number Two: The same mail folder structure

The e-mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin guys firmly increase their faith in God when handling the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to screw things up too harshly.

Negative Side Number Three: A complete deficiency of domain name manipulation GUIs

Do we have to mention the absolute shortage of a modern domain management tool - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, modify domain names' Whois information, protect the Whois information, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a great problem. An inexcusable one, we would like to point out...

Negative Side Number Four: Many login places (min two, max three)

How about the demand for an extra login to use the billing, domain and technical support administration user interface? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web hosting corporation. Now and then, based on the invoice transaction tool (principally designed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting service provider is using, the earnest clients can end up with 2 extra logins (1: the invoicing/domain name management software platform; 2: the ticket support software solution), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (including cPanel).

Inconvenience Number Five: 120+ website hosting CP departments to learn... briskly

cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the hosting CP. It's a glorious idea to pick up each and every one of them. And you'd better learn them promptly... That's way too impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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