What Precisely is cPanel Hosting?

For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based website hosting offers on the present-day web hosting marketplace are generated by a quite insignificant marketing segment (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small business niche, which furnishes a vast quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet providing strictly the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offerings on the entire hosting market furnish one and the very same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting price tags are similar. Quite similar. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is only one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, remark that one...

200k "website hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled

The website hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us boil down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are just a normal fellow who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the web site making processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domains and web portals. Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any website hosting alternative you can decide upon? Of course there is, now there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting service providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different hosting brands worldwide will offer you strictly the same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the assortment on the contemporary web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic shows that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a huge strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably satisfied all hosting market requirements. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Drawback No.1: A dumb domain folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extra cautious not to delete 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 very simple to delete on the hosting server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain folder configuration is:

Are you becoming puzzled? We undoubtedly are!

Drawback Number Two: The very same electronic mail folder setup

The electronic mail folder structure on the hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin chums strongly reinforce their belief in God when tackling the mail folders on the email server, praying not to muck things up too badly.

Drawback Number 3: A total deficiency of domain name administration interfaces

Do we have to refer to the total lack of a contemporary domain management tool - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, change domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois details, modify/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a considerable drawback. An unjustifiable one, we wish to point out...

Disadvantage Number 4: Many login places (minimum two, maximum three)

How about the necessity for an additional login to access the invoicing, domain name and technical support management system? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based website hosting service provider. Now and then, based on the billing transaction platform (particularly invented for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel website hosting corporation is using, the enthusiastic users can end up with 2 extra logins (1: the invoicing/domain name administration interface; 2: the trouble ticket support section), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login places (counting cPanel).

Disadvantage Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting CP departments to get to know... rapidly

cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 departments inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a fantastic idea to get familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better get to know them swiftly... That's quite impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based website hosting providers:

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