What In Fact is cPanel Hosting?

For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based Hosting offerings on today's web hosting marketplace are furnished by a very insubstantial business segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small marketing segment, which generates a great quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing precisely the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offers on the entire website hosting market supply precisely the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel Hosting prices are identical. Quite similar. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/hosting Control Panel option. So, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200,000 hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

200k "Hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded

The Hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us come down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Imagine you are just a regular fellow who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web page creation processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domain names and web portals. Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any web hosting variant you can choose? Of course there is, these days there are more than 200,000 web hosting vendors out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different web hosting brands in the world will offer you literally the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the diversity on the current website hosting market is... Full stop.

The Hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics shows that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is an enormous strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel Hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably met most web hosting business preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Problem No.1: A foolish domain folder structure

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be very cautious not to erase completely 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 domain names are quite simple to remove on the web server, since they all are set up 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 domain names, please. Discover for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name folder arrangement is:

Are you getting puzzled? We clearly are!

Negative Side No.2: The very same electronic mail folder configuration

The electronic mail folder configuration on the server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin blokes firmly strengthen their faith in God when dealing with the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to screw things up too irretrievably.

Downside No.3: A total shortage of domain name administration menus

Do we need to cite the sheer shortage of a modern domain name manipulation user interface - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, change domains' Whois info, shield the Whois details, change/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a major inconvenience. An unforgivable one, we would like to add...

Problem Number 4: Many login places (min 2, maximum three)

How about the need for another login to utilize the invoicing, domain name and technical support management menu? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based Hosting supplier. Sometimes, based on the invoice transaction platform (principally invented for cPanel only) the cPanel Hosting firm is utilizing, the eager customers can wind up with 2 extra login locations (1: the billing/domain management software solution; 2: the trouble ticket support user interface), winding up with a total of three login locations (including cPanel).

Disadvantage Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty website hosting Control Panel departments to grasp... promptly

cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's an excellent idea to become acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them swiftly... That's extremely arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Hosting suppliers:

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