What is cPanel Web Hosting?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based web hosting offerings on the present website hosting market are furnished by a quite inconsiderable marketing segment (when it comes to annual capital flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-sized business segment, which provides a huge quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering absolutely the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offers on the whole web hosting marketplace provide the very same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web hosting prices are alike. Very identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is simply one single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "web hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled

The web hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offerings" Google presents to us boil down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Imagine you are simply an ordinary bloke who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the site development procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domain names and online portals. Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any web hosting option you can choose? Of course there is, these days there are more than 200,000 web hosting suppliers out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique website hosting brands worldwide will give you literally the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, dubbed differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the variety on the present-day hosting market is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple arithmetic shows that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a gigantic stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably met all web hosting business prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Sign Number 1: A foolish domain folder arrangement

If you have two or more domain names, though, be very watchful not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to remove on the web hosting server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name folder configuration is:

Are you growing nonplussed? We unquestionably are!

Weakness No.2: The same mail folder structure

The electronic mail folder configuration on the hosting server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys strongly fortify their faith in God when dealing with the electronic mail folders on the email server, praying not to screw things up too harshly.

Negative Sign No.3: An absolute shortage of domain management options

Do we need to bring up the sheer absence of a contemporary domain name manipulation menu - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, modify domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois information, change/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" interface at all. That's an enormous problem. An unforgettable one, we would like to point out...

Weakness No.4: Many login locations (min 2, max three)

What about the need for an extra login to make use of the invoice transaction, domain and tech support administration software? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web hosting vendor. Occasionally, on the basis of the invoicing platform (especially made for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting provider is using, the keen users can end up with 2 additional logins (1: the invoicing/domain name management software; 2: the ticket support interface), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (including cPanel).

Negative Sign Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty website hosting Control Panel sections to learn... quickly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the Control Panel. It's a marvelous idea to grasp each one of them. And you'd better memorize them swiftly... That's quite impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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