What is cPanel Web Hosting?

For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel Web Hosting offerings on the present website hosting market are generated by a very inconsiderable marketing segment (when it comes to annual money flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a kind of a small-scale business niche, which generates an enormous number of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering precisely the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offers on the whole website hosting market provide one and the very same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based Web Hosting prices are identical. Quite similar. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/Control Panel option. So, there is simply one single fact: out of more than 200,000 hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, mark that one...

200,000 "Web Hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed

The Web Hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us boil down to just one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are merely a regular chap who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web page making procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domains and online portals. Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web hosting option you can pick? Sure there is, as of now there are more than 200k website hosting providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique hosting brand names worldwide will offer you the very same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the diversity on the present-day website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The Web Hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple mathematics shows that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a huge stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

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

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly answered all website hosting business prerequisites. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Sign Number One: A ludicrous domain folder structure

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be very careful not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to delete on the server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known 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 delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. See for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain name folder setup is:

Are you getting nonplussed? We certainly are!

Inconvenience Number 2: The same mail folder configuration

The email folder arrangement on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly strengthen their faith in God when tackling the electronic mail folders on the email server, hoping not to mess things up too irretrievably.

Weak Side Number 3: A sheer lack of domain name administration interfaces

Do we need to refer to the thorough lack of a contemporary domain management user interface - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domains' Whois details, secure the Whois details, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" interface at all. That's a colossal drawback. An unforgivable one, we want to point out...

Negative Point Number 4: Multiple user login locations (min two, maximum 3)

How about the demand for another login to make use of the billing, domain and technical support administration section? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel Web Hosting vendor. Sometimes, based on the billing transaction tool (particularly designed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel Web Hosting supplier is making use of, the devoted clients can wind up with 2 additional login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain management tool; 2: the ticket support tool), winding up with a total of 3 user login places (including cPanel).

Negative Side No.5: More than 120 web hosting Control Panel sections to memorize... rapidly

cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the hosting CP. It's a great idea to become acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them rapidly... That's inordinately arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Web Hosting corporations:

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