What In Fact is cPanel Website Hosting?

For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel web hosting offerings on today's hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite insubstantial business segment (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-scale business niche, which generates a big amount of different web hosting brand names, yet providing literally the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offerings on the whole website hosting marketplace furnish one and the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web hosting prices are identical. Very much alike. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is only one single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

Two hundred thousand "web hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed

The web hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us boil down to just one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are only an average guy who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the website making procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and websites. Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any web hosting variant you can settle on? Sure there is, today there are more than 200,000 website hosting providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ unique web hosting brand names around the world will offer you literally the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the assortment on today's website hosting market is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple arithmetic reveals that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a great stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly satisfied all website hosting market demands. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Aspect Number 1: A laughable domain folder system

If you have two or more domain names, though, be ultra watchful not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to delete on the web hosting server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular 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 try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name folder structure is:

Are you growing puzzled? We unquestionably are!

Problem No.2: The same mail folder arrangement

The mail folder arrangement on the server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chaps strongly strengthen their faith in God when coping with the email folders on the mail server, praying not to mess things up too fatally.

Shortcoming No.3: A sheer shortage of domain name management user interfaces

Do we have to cite the thorough shortage of a contemporary domain administration GUI - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, edit domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois details, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" interface at all. That's an enormous weakness. An unpardonable one, we wish to add...

Negative Side Number Four: Many user login locations (min two, maximum three)

How about the need for another login to use the invoicing transaction, domain name and technical support management interface? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web hosting company. At times, depending on the invoicing transaction system (especially meant for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting supplier is making use of, the enthusiastic customers can wind up with two additional login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain management platform; 2: the trouble ticket support tool), winding up with a total of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).

Problem Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty website hosting Control Panel menus to become familiar with... rapidly

cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 menus inside the web hosting CP. It's a marvelous idea to get acquainted with each of them. And you'd better memorize them promptly... That's excessively impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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