What Precisely is cPanel Hosting?

For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel web hosting offers on the present-day website hosting marketplace are generated by a quite unsubstantial marketing niche (as far as annual money flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-sized business niche, which provides an immense amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing strictly the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the website hosting offers on the entire website hosting marketplace furnish absolutely the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting prices are alike. Quite similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is just one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "web hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed

The web hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offers" Google reveals to us boil down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are only a regular guy who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the site creation processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domain names and web sites. Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any website hosting option you can pick? Sure there is, as of now there are more than 200,000 web hosting distributors out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ different website hosting brand names all over the world will give you literally the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, branded differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the assortment on the contemporary web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting company is an enormous stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably fulfilled most website hosting business preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Predicament Number 1: A foolish domain name folder system

If you have two or more domain names, however, be extremely watchful not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to delete on the web hosting server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous 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 try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Verify for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain folder system is:

Are you growing confused? We undeniably are!

Disadvantage No.2: The very same mail folder configuration

The email folder configuration on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin guys strongly enhance their belief in God when dealing with the mail folders on the mail server, praying not to muck things up too gravely.

Drawback Number 3: An absolute lack of domain manipulation sections

Do we have to cite the total shortage of a modern domain name administration interface - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, edit domains' Whois details, shield the Whois details, change/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's an immense predicament. An unpardonable one, we wish to add...

Weak Point Number Four: Numerous user login places (min two, maximum 3)

What about the necessity for another login to access the billing, domain name and tech support management user interface? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web hosting provider. At times, depending on the billing transaction platform (particularly intended for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting service provider is using, the avid customers can end up with 2 additional login locations (1: the billing/domain administration platform; 2: the ticket support system), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).

Drawback Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting CP menus to become acquainted with... quickly

cPanel offers to your attention 120+ sections inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a glorious idea to get familiar with each one of them. And you'd better memorize them promptly... That's way too impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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