What Actually is cPanel Web Hosting?

For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based web hosting offers on the current website hosting marketplace are generated by a quite insubstantial business niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) called hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a type of a small-size business segment, which furnishes an enormous number of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing strictly the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the web hosting offers on the entire website hosting marketplace offer precisely the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web hosting prices are alike. Very identical. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel option. So, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...

200k "web hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded

The web hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us come down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are simply an average fellow who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the site development procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and online portals. Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web hosting option you can choose? Sure there is, today there are more than 200k website hosting service providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different web hosting brand names all over the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the assortment on the contemporary web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math shows that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a mammoth stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

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

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably covered all web hosting industry prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Drawback No.1: A laughable domain folder system

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extra watchful not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to erase on the hosting server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated 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. Discover for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain folder structure is:

Are you getting confused? We undeniably are!

Shortcoming No.2: The same e-mail folder structure

The mail folder structure on the hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin chaps firmly strengthen their belief in God when tackling the email folders on the email server, praying not to botch things up too severely.

Weakness Number 3: A total absence of domain administration GUIs

Do we have to mention the absolute lack of a contemporary domain administration platform - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domains' Whois information, shield the Whois information, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a vast drawback. An unforgettable one, we want to add...

Negative Aspect No.4: Many user login places (minimum two, max 3)

How about the necessity for an extra login to avail of the billing, domain and tech support management interface? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web hosting service provider. Now and then, based on the invoicing system (especially intended for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting service provider is making use of, the zealous customers can end up with two extra login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management GUI; 2: the trouble ticket support platform), winding up with a total of three user login places (including cPanel).

Predicament No.5: More than 120 hosting Control Panel sections to get to know... quickly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a glorious idea to get to know each of them. And you'd better memorize them quickly... That's inordinately arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, 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? Note that one as well...