What Precisely is cPanel Website Hosting?

For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel Website Hosting offers on the present web hosting marketplace are generated by a quite insignificant marketing niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small business niche, which provides a huge number of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing exactly the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offerings on the whole web hosting marketplace provide one and the very same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based Website Hosting price tags are alike. Very much alike. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is only one fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

Two hundred thousand "Website Hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed

The Website Hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google shows to us boil down to just one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are just a normal guy who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the web page creation procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domains and web portals. Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any website hosting option you can select? Sure there is, right now there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting suppliers in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand different web hosting brand names in the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, named in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the assortment on the current website hosting marketplace is... Period.

The Website Hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple math reveals that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a mammoth strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel-based Website Hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps satisfied all website hosting industry demands. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Side No.1: A ludicrous domain name folder structure

If you have two or more domain names, though, be extremely careful not to remove 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 name). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to remove on the web server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Discover for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name folder setup is:

Are you becoming perplexed? We doubtlessly are!

Negative Aspect Number 2: The same mail folder configuration

The e-mail folder arrangement on the web server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys firmly enhance their faith in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to screw things up too severely.

Negative Point Number 3: A sheer absence of domain name administration menus

Do we need to refer to the utter absence of a modern domain name manipulation interface - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domain names' Whois details, protect the Whois info, modify/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" menu at all. That's a colossal problem. An unpardonable one, we want to add...

Negative Point Number 4: Many login places (min 2, maximum three)

What about the demand for an extra login to make use of the billing, domain and tech support management GUI? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based Website Hosting firm. At times, based on the billing platform (principally created for cPanel solely) the cPanel Website Hosting firm is making use of, the enthusiastic customers can end up with two additional logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration system; 2: the trouble ticket support software platform), ending up with an aggregate of three user login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Aspect Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel sections to grasp... fast

cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a superb idea to grasp each one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them fast... That's excessively insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Website Hosting firms:

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