What Actually is cPanel Hosting?

For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based website hosting offers on the present-day website hosting marketplace are generated by a very insubstantial business segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-sized marketing niche, which furnishes a big amount of different web hosting brand names, yet providing precisely the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98% of the web hosting offerings on the entire web hosting marketplace furnish absolutely the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel website hosting price tags are alike. Quite identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/web hosting CP choice. So, there is simply one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, note that one...

200k "website hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded

The website hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us boil down to just one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Assume you are only an average person who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the site making procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domain names and web portals. Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any website hosting alternative you can opt for? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than 200k web hosting providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different hosting brands worldwide will give you literally the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, named differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the diversity on the present hosting market is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math shows that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a gigantic stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly answered most web hosting market demands. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weakness Number One: A stupid domain name folder configuration

If you have two or more domain names, though, be ultra attentive not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to erase on the web server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite 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 try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how great cPanel's domain folder structure is:

Are you getting confused? We positively are!

Drawback Number 2: The very same electronic mail folder setup

The e-mail folder structure on the hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin blokes firmly strengthen their faith in God when tackling the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to mess things up too fatally.

Weak Side Number 3: An entire lack of domain name manipulation sections

Do we need to point out the total deficiency of a modern domain management interface - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, change domains' Whois info, secure the Whois details, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a great shortcoming. An unforgivable one, we wish to point out...

Predicament No.4: Many user login locations (min 2, max 3)

What about the need for an extra login to use the invoice transaction, domain and technical support management platform? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based website hosting corporation. Now and then, on the basis of the invoicing system (especially made for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel website hosting distributor is availing of, the ardent clients can wind up with 2 additional login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain name management platform; 2: the trouble ticket support tool), ending up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (including cPanel).

Problem Number 5: 120+ Control Panel departments to get acquainted with... promptly

cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a great idea to learn each one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them quickly... That's excessively impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based website hosting distributors:

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