What is cPanel Web Hosting?

For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based web hosting offerings on the present-day website hosting market are furnished by a very insignificant marketing niche (when it comes to yearly cash flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-scale business segment, which provides a huge quantity of different web hosting brands, yet providing the very same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offers on the entire website hosting marketplace furnish precisely the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web hosting price tags are alike. Very identical. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/web hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is only a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "web hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet differently named

The web hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us boil down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are just a normal person who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web page making procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the different domain names and web sites. Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any web hosting option you can settle on? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different web hosting brand names across the world will give you the very same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the assortment on the present web hosting market is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a gigantic 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 pros and cons of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably covered most web hosting industry preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Aspect No.1: A laughable domain name folder arrangement

If you have two or more domains, though, be extremely cautious not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to erase on the hosting server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine for yourself how great cPanel's domain folder system is:

Are you getting baffled? We categorically are!

Shortcoming Number Two: The very same e-mail folder system

The electronic mail folder structure on the web server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin boys strongly increase their faith in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to mess things up too irreparably.

Negative Side Number 3: A total absence of domain management menus

Do we have to point out the utter deficiency of a modern domain manipulation GUI - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domains' Whois details, secure the Whois details, change/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" section at all. That's an enormous drawback. An unpardonable one, we wish to point out...

Problem Number 4: Many login places (min 2, max three)

How about the necessity for another login to avail of the invoice transaction, domain name and technical support administration GUI? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web hosting company. Sometimes, depending on the billing transaction platform (principally developed for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting corporation is availing of, the earnest users can end up with two extra login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain name administration software platform; 2: the trouble ticket support software platform), winding up with a total of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).

Negative Side Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty hosting CP menus to become familiar with... promptly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the CP. It's a remarkable idea to memorize each of them. And you'd better become familiar with them promptly... That's way too impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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