What In Fact is cPanel Web Hosting?

For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based website hosting offers on today's website hosting market are supplied by a very inconsiderable business niche (when it comes to annual money flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-size business segment, which furnishes an enormous number of different web hosting brands, yet supplying precisely the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offerings on the whole web hosting market furnish strictly the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting price tags are alike. Very identical. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "website hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed

The website hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google presents to us boil down to just one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Assume you are only an ordinary chap who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the site development procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the different domain names and sites. Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web hosting alternative you can decide upon? Sure there is, at present there are more than 200k hosting providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique website hosting brands worldwide will offer you exactly the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the diversity on the current web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting company is an enormous strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably fulfilled all web hosting market demands. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Point Number 1: A moronic domain folder setup

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be very careful not to erase fully 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 web server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located 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. Decide for yourself how good cPanel's domain name folder arrangement is:

Are you becoming puzzled? We unquestionably are!

Disadvantage Number Two: The same email folder system

The electronic mail folder structure on the web server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chums firmly enhance their belief in God when handling the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to botch things up too irreparably.

Predicament No.3: An entire shortage of domain name administration options

Do we have to point out the sheer absence of a modern domain name management menu - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, change domains' Whois info, secure the Whois details, modify/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a major disadvantage. An unpardonable one, we would like to add...

Weakness Number Four: Numerous user login places (min two, max three)

What about the need for an extra login to avail of the billing, domain and technical support administration interface? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based website hosting firm. Sometimes, based on the invoicing transaction system (particularly devised for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel website hosting corporation is availing of, the keen users can end up with two additional login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain name management software platform; 2: the trouble ticket support software platform), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).

Negative Point No.5: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel departments to get acquainted with... swiftly

cPanel presents to your attention 120+ areas inside the website hosting CP. It's a fine idea to grasp each of them. And you'd better memorize them quickly... That's way too impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based website hosting suppliers:

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