What is cPanel Web Hosting?

For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based Web Hosting offerings on the present website hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite insubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to annual cash flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-scale marketing segment, which provides a vast amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering absolutely the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offers on the whole website hosting marketplace supply exactly the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based Web Hosting price tags are identical. Quite similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/Control Panel choice. Thus, there is just one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "Web Hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named

The Web Hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us boil down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are simply an ordinary chap who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the web page development processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the various domain names and web pages. Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any website hosting alternative you can select? Of course there is, right now there are more than 200k website hosting providers out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique website hosting brands in the world will give you exactly the same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the diversity on today's website hosting market is... Full stop.

The Web Hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math reveals that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a gigantic stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel-based Web Hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly covered all web hosting business prerequisites. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Disadvantage Number One: A dumb domain folder structure

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be ultra watchful not to remove fully 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 domain names are very simple to remove on the hosting server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous 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 delete the files of the add-on domains, please. See for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name folder system is:

Are you growing nonplussed? We undoubtedly are!

Shortcoming No.2: The same e-mail folder arrangement

The e-mail folder structure on the web hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys firmly fortify their faith in God when tackling the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to muck things up too severely.

Weak Point Number Three: An absolute deficiency of domain name manipulation tools

Do we need to point out the sheer absence of a contemporary domain administration platform - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, change domains' Whois details, shield the Whois information, change/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a great inconvenience. An unforgivable one, we want to point out...

Disadvantage Number 4: Numerous login places (minimum 2, max three)

What about the necessity for an additional login to avail of the billing transaction, domain and technical support administration section? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel Web Hosting supplier. Occasionally, depending on the invoicing system (principally designed for cPanel only) the cPanel Web Hosting corporation is utilizing, the avid clients can end up with two extra login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration tool; 2: the trouble ticket support user interface), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Sign Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty website hosting Control Panel sections to grasp... quickly

cPanel offers to your attention 120+ departments inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a glorious idea to grasp each of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them quickly... That's inordinately insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Web Hosting companies:

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