What is cPanel Web Hosting?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based hosting offerings on today's hosting marketplace are generated by a quite inconsiderable business niche (when it comes to annual cash flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a kind of a small-sized business segment, which supplies a huge quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing absolutely the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offerings on the whole web hosting marketplace supply the very same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel hosting price tags are alike. Very much alike. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service practically no other hosting platform/website hosting CP option. Thus, there is only one single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...

200k "hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly branded

The hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offers" Google shows to us boil down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Imagine you are just a normal guy who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web page development procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and online portals. Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any website hosting alternative you can select? Sure there is, these days there are more than 200k hosting vendors in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique web hosting brands across the world will offer you literally the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the diversity on the current web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic shows that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a huge stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably answered most web hosting business preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Disadvantage Number One: An imbecilic domain folder configuration

If you have two or more domain names, however, be extremely watchful not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new 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 hosting server, since they all are located 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 situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Verify for yourself how great cPanel's domain name folder arrangement is:

Are you becoming disorientated? We doubtlessly are!

Shortcoming Number Two: The same electronic mail folder arrangement

The mail folder arrangement on the server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes strongly fortify their belief in God when tackling the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to mess things up too irretrievably.

Downside No.3: A complete lack of domain management sections

Do we have to refer to the absolute lack of a contemporary domain name management GUI - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, change domains' Whois info, shield the Whois details, change/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a gigantic predicament. An unpardonable one, we want to point out...

Negative Point No.4: Many user login places (minimum two, max three)

How about the demand for an extra login to make use of the invoicing, domain and tech support administration software platform? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel hosting supplier. Sometimes, depending on the billing system (particularly developed for cPanel solely) the cPanel hosting supplier is making use of, the keen customers can end up with 2 additional login places (1: the billing transaction/domain name administration software solution; 2: the ticket support software), winding up with a total of three login places (including cPanel).

Drawback Number 5: More than 120 Control Panel areas to grasp... briskly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 areas inside the Control Panel. It's a fantastic idea to get acquainted with each of them. And you'd better grasp them briskly... That's quite impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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