What is cPanel Hosting?

For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel web hosting offerings on the present web hosting marketplace are generated by a quite inconsiderable marketing segment (when it comes to annual cash flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small business segment, which supplies an enormous number of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing strictly the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offers on the entire hosting marketplace provide the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference 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 virtually no other website hosting platform/web hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

200,000 "web hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded

The web hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offerings" Google presents to us boil down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Assume you are only a normal bloke who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web page making procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domains and sites. Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any hosting option you can select? Of course there is, as of now there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting firms in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ different web hosting brands all over the world will give you strictly the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the diversity on the present web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math demonstrates that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting company is an enormous stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps fulfilled all web hosting business requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weak Point Number 1: A ludicrous domain name folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extra watchful not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to erase on the hosting server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Decide for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain name folder configuration 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)
public_html/my-second-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-wife.net (an add-on domain)
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 name)

Are you getting puzzled? We surely are!

Negative Point No.2: The same mail folder system

The mail folder structure on the server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin boys firmly fortify their belief in God when handling the email folders on the mail server, praying not to bungle things up too severely.

Negative Side Number Three: An utter shortage of domain administration menus

Do we need to mention the entire absence of a modern domain management menu - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domains' Whois information, secure the Whois info, change/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not provide such a "modern" section at all. That's a gigantic disadvantage. An unforgivable one, we would like to point out...

Drawback Number Four: Multiple user login locations (min 2, max 3)

What about the demand for another login to access the invoice transaction, domain and tech support management software? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web hosting corporation. At times, based on the invoicing transaction system (especially devised for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting provider is making use of, the avid customers can wind up with 2 extra login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain name management software solution; 2: the ticket support GUI), winding up with an aggregate of three login locations (counting cPanel).

Inconvenience Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel sections to get acquainted with... briskly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the web hosting CP. It's a wonderful idea to learn each one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them swiftly... That's inordinately arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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