What Precisely is cPanel Web Hosting?

For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel hosting offerings on the present-day web hosting market are generated by a very inconsiderable marketing niche (when it comes to yearly cash flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-size marketing segment, which provides a great number of different web hosting brands, yet offering one and the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the website hosting offerings on the entire web hosting market supply exactly the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting price tags are alike. Very identical. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other hosting platform/web hosting CP alternative. So, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200k website hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

200k "hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled

The hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us boil down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Suppose you are merely an average bloke who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the site making processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the different domain names and sites. Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web hosting alternative you can choose? Of course there is, now there are more than 200,000 website hosting suppliers in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ unique web hosting brand names in the world will offer you the very same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the assortment on the current website hosting market is... Period.

The hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics shows that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is an immense stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly covered all web hosting business requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Inconvenience No.1: A dumb domain folder setup

If you have two or more domains, though, be ultra careful not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to delete on the web hosting server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Check for yourself how good cPanel's domain folder arrangement is:

Are you growing perplexed? We surely are!

Negative Aspect No.2: The same mail folder configuration

The mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is literally the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin chaps strongly increase their belief in God when tackling the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to bungle things up too irretrievably.

Negative Sign Number 3: An entire absence of domain management interfaces

Do we need to point out the utter shortage of a modern domain manipulation interface - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, change domain names' Whois details, shield the Whois details, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a gigantic drawback. An unpardonable one, we wish to point out...

Shortcoming Number 4: Numerous login locations (min two, max 3)

What about the demand for an additional login to utilize the invoice transaction, domain and technical support administration interface? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based hosting vendor. At times, depending on the billing transaction platform (particularly intended for cPanel solely) the cPanel hosting firm is making use of, the enthusiastic users can end up with 2 additional login locations (1: the invoicing/domain management interface; 2: the trouble ticket support GUI), winding up with an aggregate of three login places (counting cPanel).

Shortcoming Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel sections to get to know... rapidly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the website hosting CP. It's a terrific idea to get to know each one of them. And you'd better get to know them promptly... That's quite arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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