What In Fact is cPanel Web Hosting?

For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel website hosting offers on the current website hosting market are generated by a very inconsiderable marketing segment (when it comes to yearly cash flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-scale business niche, which furnishes an enormous amount of different web hosting brands, yet providing exactly the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offerings on the whole web hosting market furnish absolutely the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting prices are identical. Quite similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/CP alternative. Thus, there is simply one single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, note that one...

200k "website hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed

The website hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google shows to us come down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Suppose you are only a regular guy who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the web site creation processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and web sites. Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any website hosting variant you can select? Of course there is, these days there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting suppliers in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different hosting brands across the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the assortment on the contemporary web hosting market is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple math shows that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a gigantic stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably met all web hosting market prerequisites. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weak Side Number 1: A stupid domain folder system

If you have two or more domain names, however, be extra attentive not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to erase on the hosting server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain folder setup is:

Are you getting confused? We categorically are!

Weak Point Number Two: The same e-mail folder setup

The mail folder arrangement on the server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes firmly increase their faith in God when managing the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to bungle things up too harshly.

Weak Side Number 3: A complete deficiency of domain administration tools

Do we need to mention the entire deficiency of a contemporary domain administration interface - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, change domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois info, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" tool at all. That's an enormous shortcoming. An unforgivable one, we would like to point out...

Negative Aspect Number 4: Many login places (minimum two, maximum 3)

How about the necessity for an additional login to avail of the invoice transaction, domain name and tech support management interface? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel website hosting firm. Sometimes, depending on the invoicing transaction tool (particularly made for cPanel only) the cPanel website hosting firm is making use of, the enthusiastic clients can end up with two extra login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration GUI; 2: the ticket support software), winding up with a total of 3 login places (including cPanel).

Shortcoming Number 5: 120+ web hosting Control Panel areas to pick up... fast

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ departments inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a terrific idea to become acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them swiftly... That's inordinately insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting service providers:

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