What Precisely is cPanel Hosting?

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel web hosting offers on the present-day website hosting market are furnished by a quite insubstantial business niche (when it comes to yearly money flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-size business segment, which furnishes an immense number of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing precisely the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offers on the whole web hosting market provide the very same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web hosting price tags are identical. Very much alike. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200,000 hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "web hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed

The web hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us come down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Assume you are just a regular person who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the site making processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the different domains and sites. Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any website hosting option you can decide upon? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than two hundred thousand hosting companies out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different website hosting brand names all over the world will give you absolutely the same cPanel hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the assortment on the current web hosting market is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

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

The pros and cons of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably fulfilled all hosting business preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Point Number 1: A moronic domain name folder setup

If you have two or more domain names, though, be extra attentive not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to erase on the web hosting server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Decide for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain folder setup is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is located)
public_html/my-family (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-domain.com (an add-on domain name)
public_html/my-second-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-wife.net (an add-on domain name)
public_html/my-third-domain.com (an add-on domain)
public_html/my-third-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-third-wife.net (an add-on domain)
public_html/rebeka (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/rebeka.my-third-wife.net (a sub-domain of an add-on domain)

Are you becoming perplexed? We categorically are!

Weakness Number Two: The very same e-mail folder structure

The e-mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums firmly increase their belief in God when handling the e-mail folders on the email server, praying not to screw things up too irreparably.

Weakness No.3: A sheer shortage of domain name management user interfaces

Do we need to refer to the absolute deficiency of a contemporary domain management menu - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, edit domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois info, edit/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" GUI at all. That's an immense problem. An unpardonable one, we wish to add...

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

What about the necessity for an additional login to utilize the invoicing, domain and tech support management GUI? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web hosting company. Sometimes, based on the invoicing tool (particularly made for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting service provider is availing of, the eager clients can wind up with two extra login places (1: the billing/domain management software; 2: the ticket support GUI), ending up with a total of 3 login places (counting cPanel).

Drawback Number 5: 120+ web hosting Control Panel sections to get familiar with... quickly

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 menus inside the website hosting CP. It's a fine idea to learn each one of them. And you'd better learn them quickly... That's very impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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