What is cPanel Hosting?

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based hosting offers on the current web hosting market are furnished by a very inconsiderable marketing segment (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-scale business segment, which furnishes an immense number of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying exactly the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offers on the whole web hosting marketplace supply strictly the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting price tags are alike. Very similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel option. So, there is simply one single fact: out of more than 200k website hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, note that one...

200,000 "hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently named

The hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us come down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Assume you are merely an ordinary guy who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the site development procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and web sites. Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web hosting variant you can settle on? Of course there is, these days there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting vendors in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand unique web hosting brands around the world will give you precisely the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the assortment on the contemporary website hosting marketplace is... Period.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple math demonstrates that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a mammoth stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps fulfilled most website hosting market demands. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Shortcoming Number One: An idiotic domain name folder arrangement

If you have two or more domains, though, be extra watchful not to erase 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 erase on the hosting server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how good cPanel's domain folder configuration is:

Are you growing nonplussed? We doubtlessly are!

Weakness No.2: The very same e-mail folder arrangement

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin blokes strongly reinforce their belief in God when managing the email folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too seriously.

Negative Sign Number 3: A thorough lack of domain administration menus

Do we need to cite the complete shortage of a contemporary domain management menu - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, edit domains' Whois information, shield the Whois details, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a colossal inconvenience. An unforgivable one, we wish to add...

Disadvantage Number Four: Numerous login places (minimum 2, maximum 3)

What about the necessity for another login to make use of the billing, domain name and tech support administration GUI? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel hosting distributor. Now and then, on the basis of the invoicing transaction platform (principally tailored for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel hosting service provider is making use of, the enthusiastic customers can end up with two extra login locations (1: the billing/domain name administration platform; 2: the trouble ticket support section), winding up with an aggregate of three login places (including cPanel).

Weak Point Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting CP areas to get acquainted with... promptly

cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's an excellent idea to memorize each and every one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them briskly... That's inordinately arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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