What Exactly is cPanel Website Hosting?

For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel web hosting offers on the present-day hosting market are supplied by a very inconsiderable marketing niche (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-scale marketing niche, which generates a huge amount of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying precisely the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offerings on the entire website hosting market provide exactly the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting prices are identical. Very much alike. Giving those who require a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/web hosting CP option. Thus, there is simply one single fact: out of more than 200k hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "web hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed

The web hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us boil down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just an average guy who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the web site creation procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and web pages. Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any website hosting variant you can opt for? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting distributors in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different hosting brand names around the world will give you the same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the diversity on the present-day web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

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

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably satisfied most web hosting market preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Aspect Number 1: An idiotic domain folder configuration

If you have two or more domain names, though, be ultra attentive not to delete completely 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 simple to remove on the web hosting server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated 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. Discover for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain name folder arrangement is:

Are you growing confused? We absolutely are!

Weakness No.2: The same email folder setup

The mail folder structure on the hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin boys strongly reinforce their belief in God when handling the email folders on the mail server, praying not to muck things up too seriously.

Weak Point Number 3: A total deficiency of domain name management GUIs

Do we have to mention the thorough deficiency of a contemporary domain administration platform - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, alter domains' Whois information, shield the Whois details, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not supply such a "contemporary" section at all. That's an enormous problem. An unforgettable one, we want to add...

Weak Point Number 4: Numerous user login places (min two, max three)

What about the necessity for an extra login to use the invoicing, domain and technical support administration section? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web hosting supplier. Sometimes, depending on the billing transaction system (especially developed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting firm is making use of, the enthusiastic customers can wind up with 2 extra logins (1: the invoicing/domain administration menu; 2: the ticket support software solution), winding up with an aggregate of three login locations (including cPanel).

Weakness Number 5: More than 120 CP sections to memorize... swiftly

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 departments inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a glorious idea to get to know each of them. And you'd better learn them promptly... That's quite impudent on cPanel's side.

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

As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one too...