What is cPanel Hosting?

For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based hosting offers on the present website hosting market are generated by a very unsubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to annual cash flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-scale marketing segment, which supplies a big amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing strictly the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offerings on the entire web hosting market furnish precisely the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel hosting price tags are similar. Quite similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/web hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is merely one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, mind that one...

200k "hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed

The hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google presents to us boil down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just a normal bloke who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the site creation procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the different domain names and web portals. Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any website hosting variant you can select? Of course there is, at present there are more than 200k website hosting corporations out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique website hosting brand names in the world will give you the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the assortment on the contemporary web hosting market is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple mathematics shows that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a great stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly fulfilled all website hosting industry preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Shortcoming Number One: A dumb domain name folder structure

If you have two or more domains, however, be extra attentive not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to delete on the hosting server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very 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 erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Verify for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain name folder arrangement is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is placed)
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 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 confused? We certainly are!

Weakness Number Two: The same electronic mail folder configuration

The electronic mail folder configuration on the web server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chums firmly fortify their faith in God when handling the email folders on the mail server, hoping not to mess things up too fatally.

Negative Point Number 3: A complete deficiency of domain manipulation menus

Do we need to bring up the absolute shortage of a contemporary domain manipulation user interface - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, change domains' Whois details, protect the Whois information, modify/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a big weakness. An unforgivable one, we wish to add...

Downside Number 4: Numerous user login locations (minimum 2, maximum 3)

What about the necessity for an additional login to access the invoice transaction, domain and tech support management platform? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based hosting corporation. At times, based on the invoicing transaction tool (principally created for cPanel solely) the cPanel hosting supplier is using, the keen customers can wind up with two additional login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration tool; 2: the trouble ticket support GUI), ending up with a total of three user login places (counting cPanel).

Weak Point Number Five: More than 120 web hosting Control Panel departments to learn... swiftly

cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the website hosting CP. It's a superb idea to get acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better get to know them rapidly... That's extremely arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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