cPanel Hosting Defined

For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based web hosting offerings on the present website hosting market are provided by a quite insignificant marketing niche (when it comes to annual money flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small business segment, which furnishes a huge amount of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing one and the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offerings on the whole web hosting market supply one and the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web hosting prices are similar. Quite identical. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/hosting CP choice. Thus, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200,000 hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...

200k "web hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded

The web hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google presents to us boil down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Suppose you are merely a regular chap who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the site development processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domains and web pages. Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web hosting alternative you can settle on? Of course there is, today there are more than 200k web hosting firms out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different web hosting brand names around the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the diversity on today's web hosting market is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics reveals that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is an immense strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly fulfilled most web hosting industry prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Aspect Number 1: A dumb domain folder system

If you have two or more domains, however, be extra cautious not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to delete on the web server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located 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. Check for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain folder system is:

Are you getting confused? We unquestionably are!

Negative Aspect No.2: The very same mail folder arrangement

The mail folder arrangement on the server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chums strongly increase their belief in God when managing the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to muck things up too irretrievably.

Inconvenience Number 3: A thorough lack of domain manipulation sections

Do we need to refer to the total lack of a modern domain management GUI - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, modify domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois information, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a colossal problem. An inexcusable one, we would like to add...

Problem No.4: Multiple user login locations (min two, max three)

How about the need for an additional login to use the billing, domain and technical support management interface? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web hosting firm. At times, on the basis of the invoicing tool (principally intended for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting service provider is availing of, the keen customers can end up with 2 additional logins (1: the billing transaction/domain administration software solution; 2: the trouble ticket support system), winding up with a total of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).

Negative Sign Number 5: More than 120 web hosting Control Panel menus to memorize... briskly

cPanel presents for your consideration 120+ departments inside the hosting Control Panel. It's a remarkable idea to get familiar with each one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them briskly... That's quite insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web hosting providers:

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