What Actually is cPanel Web Hosting?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel website hosting offers on the contemporary website hosting marketplace are supplied by a very insubstantial business niche (when it comes to yearly cash flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small marketing segment, which supplies a vast amount of different web hosting brands, yet supplying absolutely the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98% of the web hosting offers on the entire web hosting market furnish the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting price tags are similar. Very similar. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

200k "website hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely named

The website hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us come down to just one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are just a normal guy who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the site making processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domain names and web sites. Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any website hosting variant you can select? Sure there is, these days there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting distributors in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique web hosting brands across the world will give you exactly the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, named differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the diversity on the contemporary web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a mammoth stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps covered most web hosting industry requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Problem Number One: An imbecilic domain folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extra watchful not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to delete on the hosting server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular 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 erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Observe for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain folder structure is:

Are you becoming bewildered? We clearly are!

Weakness Number Two: The very same e-mail folder arrangement

The e-mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys firmly fortify their faith in God when coping with the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to mess things up too fatally.

Negative Side Number Three: A thorough lack of domain name manipulation menus

Do we have to bring up the entire absence of a contemporary domain name administration user interface - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, change domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois information, edit/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a great disadvantage. An unjustifiable one, we want to point out...

Drawback Number 4: Multiple user login places (min two, max 3)

How about the need for an extra login to utilize the invoice transaction, domain and tech support management menu? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel website hosting distributor. At times, on the basis of the invoicing platform (principally made for cPanel solely) the cPanel website hosting distributor is using, the keen users can end up with two additional logins (1: the billing transaction/domain name administration software; 2: the trouble ticket support tool), winding up with a total of three user login locations (including cPanel).

Weak Side Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty hosting Control Panel areas to memorize... swiftly

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 departments inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's an excellent idea to learn each and every one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them quickly... That's quite arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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