What is cPanel Web Hosting?

For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel web hosting offers on the present website hosting marketplace are generated by a quite insignificant business segment (when it comes to annual cash flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-sized business niche, which supplies an enormous amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering the very same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offers on the whole web hosting market furnish one and the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web hosting prices are identical. Very much alike. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is just one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...

Two hundred thousand "web hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely named

The web hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google shows to us boil down to just one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just an ordinary guy who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the website making procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domain names and web pages. Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any website hosting variant you can select? Sure there is, right now there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting firms in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different web hosting brand names all over the world will offer you exactly the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the diversity on the present-day website hosting market is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics reveals that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a gigantic strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps covered all website hosting industry requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weakness No.1: A laughable domain folder arrangement

If you have two or more domains, though, be ultra cautious not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call 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 simple to erase on the hosting server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain folder configuration is:

Are you becoming disorientated? We definitely are!

Negative Side Number 2: The same electronic mail folder structure

The e-mail folder structure on the hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly fortify their faith in God when managing the email folders on the email server, praying not to mess things up too badly.

Downside Number Three: An absolute absence of domain administration tools

Do we need to bring up the complete deficiency of a contemporary domain manipulation interface - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, modify domains' Whois info, secure the Whois info, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" tool at all. That's a vast problem. An unforgettable one, we wish to point out...

Weak Point Number 4: Numerous login places (minimum two, maximum three)

What about the demand for another login to access the invoicing transaction, domain name and technical support management menu? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web hosting firm. Now and then, based on the billing platform (particularly designed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting supplier is using, the devoted customers can wind up with two additional login locations (1: the invoicing/domain management platform; 2: the trouble ticket support software solution), winding up with a total of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).

Shortcoming Number Five: More than 120 web hosting CP areas to get to know... promptly

cPanel offers to your attention 120+ menus inside the website hosting CP. It's a glorious idea to learn each one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them rapidly... That's inordinately arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web hosting vendors:

As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one too...