What Indeed is cPanel Website Hosting?

For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based hosting offerings on today's website hosting market are provided by a quite insignificant marketing segment (when it comes to annual capital flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-sized business niche, which furnishes an immense quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying precisely the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the hosting offerings on the whole web hosting marketplace furnish precisely the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel hosting prices are identical. Quite similar. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/website hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled

The hosting "variety" and the hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us boil down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are just an average chap who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the site making procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domain names and web portals. Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any website hosting alternative you can settle on? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than 200k web hosting vendors in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique web hosting brands in the world will offer you the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the diversity on the current website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple arithmetic reveals that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting company is an enormous stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly covered all website hosting industry demands. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weakness Number 1: A foolish domain folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extra careful not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to erase on the server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Determine for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain folder configuration is:

Are you getting puzzled? We unquestionably are!

Disadvantage Number 2: The same e-mail folder arrangement

The mail folder arrangement on the web server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin guys strongly increase their faith in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to screw things up too irreparably.

Negative Side Number Three: An entire shortage of domain name management options

Do we need to bring up the thorough deficiency of a modern domain administration GUI - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domains' Whois details, secure the Whois details, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's an enormous shortcoming. An inexcusable one, we want to add...

Weakness No.4: Multiple user login places (min two, maximum 3)

What about the demand for an additional login to utilize the invoicing, domain and technical support administration software solution? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel hosting distributor. Sometimes, depending on the invoice transaction system (particularly created for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel hosting company is availing of, the zealous customers can end up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain name administration software; 2: the trouble ticket support menu), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login places (including cPanel).

Inconvenience No.5: More than 120 web hosting CP areas to get familiar with... quickly

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ areas inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a remarkable idea to become familiar with each one of them. And you'd better pick them up briskly... That's excessively impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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