What Indeed is cPanel Hosting?

For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel hosting offerings on the present web hosting market are generated by a very insubstantial marketing niche (when it comes to annual money flow) called hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small marketing segment, which supplies an enormous quantity of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing absolutely the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offers on the whole web hosting market supply exactly the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting prices are alike. Quite similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel option. So, there is simply a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, note that one...

200,000 "hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed

The hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us boil down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are simply a normal bloke who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the web page making processes and the hosting platforms, which actually power the different domains and websites. Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web hosting option you can opt for? Sure there is, right now there are more than 200k hosting distributors out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique web hosting brand names in the world will offer you the same cPanel Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the assortment on today's web hosting market is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple arithmetic shows that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a mammoth stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

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

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly covered most web hosting business preconditions. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Predicament Number One: A moronic domain folder setup

If you have two or more domains, however, be ultra cautious not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to erase on the hosting server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous 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 remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Determine for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain name folder setup is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is located)
public_html/my-family (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-domain.com (an add-on domain)
public_html/my-second-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-wife.net (an add-on domain)
public_html/my-third-domain.com (an add-on domain)
public_html/my-third-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-third-wife.net (an add-on domain name)
public_html/rebeka (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/rebeka.my-third-wife.net (a sub-domain of an add-on domain name)

Are you getting bewildered? We clearly are!

Negative Sign Number 2: The very same e-mail folder setup

The electronic mail folder structure on the hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chaps strongly strengthen their belief in God when managing the electronic mail folders on the email server, hoping not to screw things up too seriously.

Negative Point Number Three: A thorough absence of domain management options

Do we need to point out the absolute absence of a contemporary domain manipulation tool - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domain names' Whois information, protect the Whois info, edit/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a considerable problem. An unjustifiable one, we wish to add...

Weak Point No.4: Many login locations (minimum two, maximum three)

What about the necessity for an additional login to utilize the invoicing, domain and technical support management GUI? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based hosting vendor. At times, based on the invoice transaction platform (especially made for cPanel only) the cPanel hosting company is making use of, the ardent customers can end up with two additional login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain name management platform; 2: the ticket support user interface), winding up with a total of three user login locations (counting cPanel).

Weakness Number 5: More than 120 website hosting Control Panel areas to get familiar with... quickly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the CP. It's a glorious idea to become familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them swiftly... That's way too arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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