What is cPanel Website Hosting?

For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based hosting offerings on the current web hosting market are generated by a very insubstantial marketing niche (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-scale business segment, which furnishes a huge amount of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing exactly the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the website hosting offers on the whole web hosting market provide one and the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting prices are alike. Quite identical. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is only one fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, note that one...

200,000 "hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named

The hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us come down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are merely a regular bloke who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the web page creation processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and web pages. Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any website hosting option you can opt for? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting companies out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different website hosting brands across the world will offer you the very same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the assortment on the present hosting market is... Period.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a big stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly satisfied most web hosting market preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Inconvenience Number 1: A laughable domain folder structure

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be very watchful not to erase 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 name). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to delete on the hosting server, since they all are situated 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 placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain folder structure is:

Are you becoming puzzled? We unquestionably are!

Weakness Number 2: The very same e-mail folder system

The e-mail folder configuration on the web server is literally the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys firmly increase their faith in God when managing the electronic mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to screw things up too gravely.

Disadvantage No.3: An utter lack of domain name management options

Do we have to refer to the utter lack of a contemporary domain administration menu - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, alter domain names' Whois details, shield the Whois information, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a big shortcoming. An unforgettable one, we want to add...

Weak Point Number Four: Many login locations (min 2, max 3)

How about the demand for an extra login to make use of the invoicing, domain name and tech support administration software? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based hosting supplier. Now and then, on the basis of the billing transaction platform (especially developed for cPanel solely) the cPanel hosting provider is using, the avid users can wind up with two additional logins (1: the billing/domain name management software solution; 2: the ticket support user interface), winding up with an aggregate of three user login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Side Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel sections to get familiar with... promptly

cPanel presents for your consideration 120+ areas inside the web hosting CP. It's a fine idea to become acquainted with each of them. And you'd better grasp them swiftly... That's inordinately insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel hosting distributors:

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