What is cPanel Hosting?

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based website hosting offers on the present-day website hosting market are supplied by a quite insubstantial business niche (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-size marketing niche, which provides a vast quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing literally the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offerings on the whole web hosting marketplace offer exactly the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting price tags are similar. Very much alike. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is just a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mark that one...

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

The website hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us come down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just a regular bloke who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the website making procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domain names and websites. Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any web hosting option you can opt for? Of course there is, now there are more than 200k website hosting providers out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique web hosting brand names all over the world will offer you the very same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, branded differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the variety on the current website hosting marketplace is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics reveals that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a great strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably covered all website hosting market preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Downside Number 1: An idiotic domain name folder configuration

If you have two or more domain names, however, be extra careful not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to delete on the web hosting server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Check for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain folder configuration is:

Are you growing nonplussed? We undoubtedly are!

Predicament Number Two: The very same email folder arrangement

The e-mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin chaps strongly fortify their belief in God when managing the electronic mail folders on the email server, hoping not to muck things up too irretrievably.

Shortcoming No.3: A sheer deficiency of domain administration tools

Do we need to refer to the sheer shortage of a contemporary domain name management menu - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, change domains' Whois details, shield the Whois info, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a colossal shortcoming. An unpardonable one, we want to add...

Shortcoming No.4: Multiple login places (min 2, maximum three)

What about the need for an additional login to access the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support management interface? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based website hosting company. Now and then, on the basis of the invoicing tool (principally intended for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel website hosting company is utilizing, the zealous users can end up with two additional login places (1: the billing/domain administration software platform; 2: the ticket support user interface), ending up with an aggregate of three login locations (including cPanel).

Drawback No.5: More than one hundred and twenty website hosting Control Panel departments to grasp... fast

cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the web hosting CP. It's a marvelous idea to learn each and every one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them briskly... That's way too impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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