What In Fact is cPanel Hosting?

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel hosting offerings on the current website hosting market are generated by a very insignificant marketing niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-sized marketing niche, which supplies an enormous quantity of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing precisely the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offers on the entire web hosting marketplace furnish exactly the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel hosting price tags are identical. Quite identical. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is simply one single fact: out of more than 200,000 hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...

200,000 "hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed

The hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google shows to us boil down to just one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Imagine you are simply an ordinary chap who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web site creation processes and the hosting platforms, which actually power the various domains and web sites. Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any website hosting alternative you can pick? Of course there is, as of now there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting service providers out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique web hosting brand names in the world will offer you exactly the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the variety on today's hosting market is... Period.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math demonstrates that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is an enormous stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps met most website hosting business preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weakness Number 1: A stupid domain name folder structure

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be very attentive not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to remove on the web server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain folder structure is:

Are you growing disorientated? We categorically are!

Problem Number 2: The same email folder configuration

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin chums strongly reinforce their belief in God when managing the email folders on the email server, hoping not to bungle things up too badly.

Weak Side Number Three: A complete absence of domain manipulation GUIs

Do we need to refer to the sheer absence of a contemporary domain name management platform - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, change domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois information, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a vast downside. An unpardonable one, we would like to add...

Predicament Number 4: Many user login locations (min two, maximum three)

How about the necessity for another login to avail of the invoice transaction, domain name and tech support administration software? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel hosting firm. At times, depending on the invoicing transaction system (especially conceived for cPanel only) the cPanel hosting distributor is using, the ardent users can end up with 2 additional login places (1: the billing transaction/domain management tool; 2: the ticket support system), ending up with a total of three user login locations (counting cPanel).

Shortcoming No.5: 120+ web hosting CP menus to memorize... rapidly

cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 menus inside the hosting CP. It's a fine idea to get to know each and every one of them. And you'd better learn them rapidly... That's very arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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