What Does cPanel Hosting Signify?
For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel Hosting offers on the present web hosting market are generated by a very insignificant business segment (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-sized marketing segment, which furnishes an immense number of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing the very same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the website hosting offers on the whole website hosting market supply one and the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based Hosting prices are similar. Quite similar. Giving those who require a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/web hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is simply one single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mind that one...
200,000 "Hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled
The Hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us come down to just one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are merely an average bloke who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the web page development processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the different domain names and websites. Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any website hosting alternative you can select? Of course there is, now there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting service providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique website hosting brand names around the world will offer you exactly the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on the present website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.
The Hosting LOTTERY we are all part of
Simple math reveals that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a gigantic strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...
The positive and negative points of the cPanel-based Hosting solution
Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps answered all web hosting industry prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Negative Side Number 1: A dumb domain folder structure
If you have 2 or more domains, however, be very watchful not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to erase on the web hosting server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, 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 delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain folder arrangement is:
public_html (here my-default-domain.com is placed)public_html/my-family (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-domain.com (an add-on domain)
public_html/my-second-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-wife.net (an add-on domain name)
public_html/my-third-domain.com (an add-on domain name)
public_html/my-third-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-third-wife.net (an add-on domain)
public_html/rebeka (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/rebeka.my-third-wife.net (a sub-domain of an add-on domain name)
Are you becoming perplexed? We definitely are!
Weakness Number 2: The very same electronic mail folder arrangement
The mail folder arrangement on the web server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums firmly increase their belief in God when dealing with the email folders on the e-mail server, praying not to bungle things up too harshly.
Problem Number Three: A total shortage of domain administration GUIs
Do we need to refer to the absolute lack of a modern domain management tool - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domains' Whois information, protect the Whois information, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a huge disadvantage. An unpardonable one, we want to add...
Downside Number Four: Multiple login places (minimum two, max 3)
How about the necessity for another login to make use of the invoice transaction, domain and technical support management tool? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel Hosting firm. At times, based on the invoicing transaction system (particularly devised for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel Hosting provider is using, the earnest customers can end up with two additional logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration user interface; 2: the ticket support software solution), ending up with a total of three login places (including cPanel).
Disadvantage Number 5: 120+ website hosting CP departments to learn... fast
cPanel presents to your attention 120+ sections inside the website hosting CP. It's an excellent idea to pick up each and every one of them. And you'd better get to know them swiftly... That's excessively insolent on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Hosting firms:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one too...
| Basic | Delux | Ultra | Entry |
| Unlimited storage | Unlimited storage | Unlimited storage | Unlimited storage |
| Unlimited bandwidth | Unlimited bandwidth | Unlimited bandwidth | Unlimited bandwidth |
| 5 websites hosted | Unlimited websites hosted | Unlimited websites hosted | 1 website hosted |
| 30-Day Free Trial | 30-Day Free Trial | 30-Day Free Trial | 30-Day Free Trial |
| $3.92 / month | $8.67 / month | $12.50 / month | $3.00 / month |
