What In Fact is cPanel Hosting?

For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel hosting offers on the current hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite unsubstantial business niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-size business niche, which generates a vast number of different web hosting brand names, yet providing exactly the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offers on the entire web hosting marketplace supply one and the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting price tags are alike. Very identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/website hosting CP option. Thus, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, note that one...

200k "hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed

The hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us come down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are merely an average guy who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the web page creation procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domains and web pages. Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any web hosting option you can select? Sure there is, these days there are more than 200,000 web hosting service providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ unique web hosting brands all over the world will give you precisely the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, named differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the diversity on the contemporary web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple arithmetic reveals that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a great stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably answered all hosting market prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Inconvenience Number 1: A laughable domain folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be very attentive not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to remove on the server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain folder system is:

Are you becoming perplexed? We doubtlessly are!

Problem Number 2: The same mail folder system

The mail folder arrangement on the server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin blokes firmly increase their faith in God when handling the e-mail folders on the email server, hoping not to mess things up too gravely.

Negative Side Number 3: An utter shortage of domain name manipulation tools

Do we have to cite the utter shortage of a contemporary domain manipulation tool - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domains' Whois info, secure the Whois details, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not have such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's an enormous drawback. An unforgettable one, we wish to point out...

Negative Point Number Four: Multiple user login places (min two, maximum 3)

How about the demand for another login to avail of the invoice transaction, domain and tech support administration interface? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based hosting provider. Now and then, based on the billing system (particularly developed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel hosting vendor is utilizing, the enthusiastic customers can end up with two extra logins (1: the invoicing/domain management software; 2: the ticket support tool), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).

Inconvenience Number 5: 120+ web hosting Control Panel areas to learn... briskly

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ areas inside the web hosting CP. It's a great idea to pick up each of them. And you'd better memorize them promptly... That's quite arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one too...