What Does cPanel Website Hosting Represent?

For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based hosting offers on the present-day website hosting marketplace are provided by a very insignificant business niche (when it comes to yearly cash flow) called hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-sized marketing niche, which furnishes an enormous quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying absolutely the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98% of the web hosting offers on the whole website hosting marketplace provide the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting price tags are similar. Quite similar. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200k web hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...

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

The hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us boil down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are just an ordinary chap who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the web page creation processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the different domains and web pages. Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any web hosting variant you can decide upon? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than 200,000 web hosting corporations out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ different web hosting brands in the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how big the variety on the present-day web hosting market is... Period.

The hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple math demonstrates that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is an enormous stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps answered all hosting business preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Side No.1: A foolish domain name folder arrangement

If you have two or more domain names, though, be ultra watchful not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to delete on the server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous 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 domains, please. See for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain folder configuration is:

Are you becoming puzzled? We definitely are!

Weak Point No.2: The very same e-mail folder arrangement

The electronic mail folder structure on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin boys firmly increase their belief in God when dealing with the mail folders on the mail server, praying not to muck things up too fatally.

Weak Point No.3: A complete lack of domain management interfaces

Do we have to mention the absolute lack of a contemporary domain name administration GUI - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domains' Whois details, protect the Whois information, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "modern" section at all. That's an enormous weakness. An unforgivable one, we would like to add...

Predicament Number 4: Multiple login locations (minimum two, max 3)

What about the necessity for an additional login to access the invoice transaction, domain name and tech support management GUI? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based hosting supplier. At times, depending on the invoicing platform (especially invented for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel hosting company is using, the enthusiastic clients can end up with two additional login locations (1: the billing/domain administration software platform; 2: the ticket support platform), ending up with an aggregate of three user login places (including cPanel).

Negative Side Number Five: 120+ web hosting CP sections to memorize... promptly

cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 sections inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a remarkable idea to become familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them fast... That's very insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel hosting service providers:

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