What is cPanel Hosting?

For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based web hosting offerings on the current website hosting marketplace are generated by a quite unsubstantial marketing segment (as far as annual money flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small business segment, which furnishes a huge amount of different web hosting brand names, yet providing absolutely the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offerings on the entire website hosting marketplace provide the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web hosting prices are similar. Quite similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is merely a single fact: out of more than 200,000 hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "web hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled

The web hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us boil down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Imagine you are just a regular chap who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the website development processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domains and sites. Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any web hosting variant you can settle on? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique web hosting brands around the world will offer you literally the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on the contemporary web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math 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 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps covered most website hosting business preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weak Side No.1: A moronic domain name folder system

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be ultra watchful not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to 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 very easy to remove on the server, because they all are located 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. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain folder setup is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is situated)
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 name)
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 growing puzzled? We absolutely are!

Weak Point Number 2: The same electronic mail folder arrangement

The electronic mail folder structure on the web hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin boys firmly reinforce their faith in God when managing the mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to mess things up too fatally.

Inconvenience No.3: A complete deficiency of domain administration GUIs

Do we need to point out the sheer lack of a modern domain manipulation user interface - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, change domains' Whois info, secure the Whois info, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a vast drawback. An inexcusable one, we would like to point out...

Disadvantage Number Four: Numerous user login places (minimum two, max 3)

How about the demand for an extra login to avail of the billing transaction, domain and tech support administration tool? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web hosting provider. Occasionally, depending on the invoicing transaction tool (especially tailored for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting service provider is making use of, the earnest clients can end up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoicing/domain name administration software; 2: the ticket support software), winding up with an aggregate of three login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Point Number 5: More than 120 website hosting CP areas to get familiar with... swiftly

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 areas inside the CP. It's a glorious idea to become familiar with each one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them promptly... That's quite arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web hosting vendors:

As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one too...