What Actually is cPanel Website Hosting?

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel hosting offers on the present-day web hosting market are generated by a quite unsubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to annual cash flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-scale marketing niche, which generates a great quantity of different web hosting brands, yet supplying strictly the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offers on the whole website hosting marketplace provide literally the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting prices are identical. Very similar. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/web hosting CP choice. So, there is simply one single fact: out of more than 200,000 hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, note that one...

200k "hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely named

The hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us boil down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Suppose you are only an average bloke who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web page making procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and online portals. Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any website hosting alternative you can select? Of course there is, at present there are more than 200k hosting suppliers in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique hosting brands worldwide will offer you absolutely the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, dubbed differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the diversity on the present website hosting marketplace is... Period.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics reveals that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a big strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably fulfilled most website hosting industry prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Downside Number 1: A moronic domain folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be very cautious not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call 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 quite simple to delete on the server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Discover for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain folder arrangement is:

Are you growing perplexed? We absolutely are!

Drawback Number 2: The same email folder configuration

The e-mail folder structure on the server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys strongly strengthen their faith in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to muck things up too fatally.

Negative Side Number 3: A total deficiency of domain name manipulation tools

Do we need to bring up the absolute lack of a contemporary domain manipulation tool - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domains' Whois information, protect the Whois info, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not supply such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a major downside. An unpardonable one, we would like to add...

Negative Point Number 4: Numerous login places (minimum 2, maximum 3)

What about the necessity for an additional login to use the invoicing, domain name and technical support management section? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based hosting service provider. Now and then, on the basis of the invoice transaction tool (especially devised for cPanel only) the cPanel hosting supplier is using, the eager customers can end up with two additional login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration section; 2: the ticket support section), ending up with a total of 3 login places (counting cPanel).

Shortcoming Number Five: More than 120 website hosting CP areas to memorize... fast

cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 menus inside the website hosting CP. It's a superb idea to become acquainted with each of them. And you'd better learn them fast... That's quite impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel hosting firms:

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