cPanel Hosting Defined

For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based Hosting offers on the present-day website hosting marketplace are generated by a quite insubstantial business niche (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a type of a small-size business niche, which generates a big quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet offering strictly the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offerings on the whole web hosting marketplace supply one and the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based Hosting prices are identical. Very much alike. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200k website hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

Two hundred thousand "Hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled

The Hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us come down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Imagine you are merely an average bloke who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the website making procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domain names and web sites. Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any website hosting variant you can opt for? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than 200k web hosting companies out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique web hosting brands across the world will give you exactly the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the diversity on the present web hosting market is... Full stop.

The Hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math reveals that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a big stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

The pros and cons of the cPanel Hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps covered all web hosting market preconditions. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Side Number One: A laughable domain name folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extremely watchful not to erase completely 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 quite simple to delete on the server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Decide for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain folder arrangement is:

Are you getting confused? We clearly are!

Drawback No.2: The same mail folder setup

The email folder configuration on the web server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin chaps firmly reinforce their faith in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the email server, praying not to botch things up too harshly.

Weak Side Number Three: A complete shortage of domain name manipulation GUIs

Do we have to mention the thorough shortage of a modern domain administration menu - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, change domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois info, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a gigantic weakness. An unjustifiable one, we want to point out...

Negative Point Number 4: Multiple user login places (minimum 2, maximum three)

What about the need for another login to use the billing, domain name and tech support management software platform? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based Hosting company. Sometimes, depending on the billing transaction platform (principally devised for cPanel solely) the cPanel Hosting supplier is utilizing, the eager clients can end up with 2 additional login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain name management system; 2: the ticket support menu), ending up with an aggregate of three login locations (including cPanel).

Weakness Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty CP sections to learn... promptly

cPanel presents for your consideration 120+ menus inside the web hosting CP. It's a fabulous idea to become familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them quickly... That's excessively arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Hosting companies:

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