What In Fact is cPanel Hosting?

For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel website hosting offerings on the present-day website hosting marketplace are generated by a very insubstantial business niche (when it comes to annual money flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-scale business niche, which provides an immense amount of different web hosting brand names, yet providing the very same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the hosting offerings on the whole web hosting marketplace offer absolutely the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel website hosting price tags are alike. Very identical. Giving those who need a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is merely one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "website hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded

The website hosting "variety" and the hosting "offers" Google shows to us boil down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are only a normal person who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the site making processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the various domains and web portals. Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web hosting alternative you can settle on? Of course there is, these days there are more than 200,000 web hosting suppliers in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different web hosting brand names worldwide will offer you precisely the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the variety on the current web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math reveals that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is an enormous stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

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

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps answered most web hosting business demands. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Side No.1: An imbecilic domain folder setup

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extra cautious not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to delete on the web server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very well known 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 attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Verify for yourself how good cPanel's domain name folder system is:

Are you becoming puzzled? We categorically are!

Negative Sign Number Two: The same e-mail folder structure

The e-mail folder configuration on the web server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin chaps strongly fortify their belief in God when handling the email folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to mess things up too badly.

Downside Number Three: An entire absence of domain manipulation options

Do we have to mention the entire deficiency of a contemporary domain administration tool - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, change domains' Whois info, secure the Whois info, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a major drawback. An unpardonable one, we would like to add...

Disadvantage Number 4: Many user login locations (min two, maximum three)

What about the need for another login to make use of the billing, domain and technical support management section? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel website hosting service provider. Now and then, depending on the billing tool (particularly intended for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel website hosting vendor is availing of, the devoted customers can end up with two extra login locations (1: the billing/domain administration interface; 2: the ticket support section), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (including cPanel).

Predicament Number Five: More than 120 web hosting Control Panel sections to get acquainted with... quickly

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ areas inside the web hosting CP. It's a fine idea to grasp each one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them rapidly... That's inordinately insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting firms:

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