What is cPanel Hosting?

For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel hosting offers on the present-day web hosting marketplace are generated by a quite insubstantial marketing niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) called hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small business niche, which furnishes a big number of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering the very same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offers on the entire web hosting marketplace provide the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting prices are similar. Very similar. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service practically no other hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200,000 hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed

The hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us boil down to just one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are merely an ordinary person who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the site making processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and websites. Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any website hosting alternative you can choose? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than 200,000 web hosting firms out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different website hosting brands in the world will offer you literally the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how big the assortment on the contemporary hosting marketplace is... Period.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple arithmetic reveals that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is an immense strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps answered most website hosting market preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Inconvenience Number One: A ludicrous domain name folder system

If you have two or more domains, though, be ultra cautious not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to delete on the hosting server, since 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. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Decide for yourself how great cPanel's domain name folder structure is:

Are you getting confused? We undoubtedly are!

Shortcoming Number 2: The same electronic mail folder configuration

The email folder structure on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin boys strongly increase their faith in God when tackling the e-mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to botch things up too irreparably.

Negative Point Number 3: An entire lack of domain administration GUIs

Do we have to cite the entire absence of a contemporary domain administration menu - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, change domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois info, change/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a gigantic weakness. An unpardonable one, we want to add...

Problem No.4: Numerous user login places (min two, maximum 3)

How about the necessity for an additional login to use the invoicing transaction, domain and technical support administration software? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based hosting corporation. Sometimes, on the basis of the invoicing platform (principally tailored for cPanel only) the cPanel hosting distributor is making use of, the keen customers can end up with 2 extra login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain administration user interface; 2: the trouble ticket support user interface), ending up with a total of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).

Shortcoming Number Five: More than 120 website hosting CP areas to pick up... quickly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a remarkable idea to get acquainted with each of them. And you'd better get to know them briskly... That's very insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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