What Actually is cPanel Hosting?

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel Hosting offerings on today's website hosting market are supplied by a quite insubstantial business niche (as far as annual money flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small business niche, which provides an enormous amount of different web hosting brands, yet offering the very same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98% of the website hosting offerings on the entire website hosting market furnish exactly the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based Hosting prices are alike. Very identical. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/website hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is simply one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...

200k "Hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely named

The Hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us come down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are simply a regular bloke who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the web page development processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the different domains and web portals. Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any hosting alternative you can opt for? Of course there is, right now there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting distributors in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand unique website hosting brands around the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the variety on the current web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The Hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic reveals that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is an immense stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel Hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably satisfied all website hosting business requirements. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weak Side No.1: A moronic domain name folder setup

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

Are you growing puzzled? We positively are!

Negative Sign No.2: The very same email folder system

The e-mail folder configuration on the web server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly increase their belief in God when coping with the e-mail folders on the mail server, praying not to muck things up too seriously.

Negative Sign No.3: A thorough shortage of domain management sections

Do we need to cite the thorough lack of a contemporary domain name management platform - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domains' Whois info, secure the Whois information, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not have such a "contemporary" section at all. That's an enormous problem. An inexcusable one, we wish to add...

Weak Point No.4: Many login places (minimum 2, max three)

What about the need for an additional login to use the billing transaction, domain and tech support management platform? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel Hosting corporation. At times, based on the invoicing platform (especially conceived for cPanel solely) the cPanel Hosting company is utilizing, the keen customers can end up with 2 additional logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain administration software; 2: the ticket support user interface), winding up with an aggregate of three user login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Point No.5: 120+ website hosting CP sections to learn... swiftly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the website hosting CP. It's a marvelous idea to get to know each and every one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them rapidly... That's way too impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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