What Indeed is cPanel Web Hosting?

For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel web hosting offerings on today's web hosting market are generated by a very unsubstantial marketing niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-scale marketing segment, which generates an enormous number of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing absolutely the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offers on the entire website hosting market offer one and the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting price tags are similar. Very identical. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/web hosting CP choice. So, there is simply a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "web hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed

The web hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us come down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Imagine you are just an ordinary chap who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the site development processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and web pages. Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any web hosting variant you can choose? Of course there is, as of now there are more than 200k web hosting providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ different website hosting brands worldwide will give you precisely the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how great the assortment on the contemporary website hosting market is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math demonstrates that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a great stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably covered most website hosting industry demands. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Downside No.1: A moronic domain name folder setup

If you have two or more domains, though, be extremely careful not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to erase on the web server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. See for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain folder arrangement is:

Are you growing confused? We absolutely are!

Weak Side Number Two: The same e-mail folder configuration

The email folder structure on the web server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chaps strongly fortify their belief in God when handling the mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to bungle things up too harshly.

Negative Aspect Number Three: A complete lack of domain name manipulation user interfaces

Do we need to bring up the total lack of a modern domain administration tool - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, change domains' Whois details, protect the Whois details, modify/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a gigantic disadvantage. An unforgivable one, we want to point out...

Negative Side No.4: Numerous login places (min 2, maximum 3)

How about the need for an extra login to use the invoicing, domain name and tech support administration GUI? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web hosting corporation. Sometimes, on the basis of the invoicing platform (especially made for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting vendor is using, the eager users can end up with 2 extra login places (1: the billing/domain administration interface; 2: the trouble ticket support menu), winding up with a total of 3 login places (counting cPanel).

Predicament Number 5: More than 120 web hosting CP departments to grasp... fast

cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the web hosting CP. It's a superb idea to get acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better grasp them briskly... That's excessively impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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