What is cPanel Hosting?

For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel Hosting offers on today's website hosting market are supplied by a quite inconsiderable business niche (when it comes to annual cash flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-scale marketing niche, which provides a big number of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering exactly the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offerings on the whole web hosting market supply absolutely the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based Hosting prices are similar. Very identical. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/hosting CP choice. So, there is simply one single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, remark that one...

200,000 "Hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely named

The Hosting "variety" and the hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us boil down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are merely an ordinary guy who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the web site creation processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domains and web sites. Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any web hosting option you can pick? Of course there is, these days there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting distributors in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different web hosting brands in the world will offer you the very same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how great the diversity on the current website hosting market is... Full stop.

The Hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics reveals that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a colossal stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than one in 50...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel-based Hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably answered most web hosting business demands. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Inconvenience No.1: A moronic domain name folder configuration

If you have two or more domain names, however, be very careful not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to erase on the web hosting server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located 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. Verify for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain folder configuration is:

Are you getting perplexed? We undeniably are!

Negative Aspect No.2: The same electronic mail folder structure

The e-mail folder structure on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The admin chaps strongly strengthen their belief in God when managing the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to screw things up too seriously.

Problem Number 3: An absolute absence of domain management tools

Do we have to refer to the utter lack of a modern domain name manipulation platform - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, change domains' Whois info, shield the Whois information, alter/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" menu at all. That's a great problem. An unpardonable one, we wish to add...

Negative Point Number Four: Numerous user login places (minimum two, maximum 3)

What about the need for another login to use the invoicing, domain and technical support management user interface? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel Hosting service provider. Sometimes, depending on the invoicing transaction platform (especially built for cPanel solely) the cPanel Hosting firm is using, the avid users can wind up with 2 extra login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name management tool; 2: the trouble ticket support platform), ending up with an aggregate of three login places (counting cPanel).

Drawback Number 5: More than 120 web hosting Control Panel areas to grasp... promptly

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 sections inside the web hosting CP. It's a remarkable idea to become acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better grasp them promptly... That's inordinately arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Hosting service providers:

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