What is cPanel Web Hosting?

For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based web hosting offers on the present web hosting market are provided by a very insignificant marketing niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-scale business segment, which supplies a vast amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing the very same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offers on the whole web hosting marketplace provide one and the very same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web hosting price tags are similar. Very much alike. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is only one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "web hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled

The web hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google shows to us come down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Imagine you are just a regular fellow who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the site creation processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the different domains and web sites. Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any website hosting option you can choose? Sure there is, at present there are more than 200,000 web hosting distributors in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different web hosting brands worldwide will offer you absolutely the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, named in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the variety on the present web hosting market is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic reveals that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a huge strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will occur! Less than one in 50...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps met most web hosting industry preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Point Number One: A foolish domain folder setup

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be very watchful not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to delete on the web server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous 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 attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. See for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain folder arrangement is:

Are you becoming baffled? We undeniably are!

Negative Side Number Two: The very same e-mail folder system

The mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes firmly enhance their faith in God when tackling the electronic mail folders on the email server, praying not to muck things up too gravely.

Weak Point Number 3: A complete shortage of domain name manipulation menus

Do we need to point out the complete deficiency of a modern domain administration GUI - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, modify domains' Whois details, shield the Whois details, edit/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's an immense downside. An unforgettable one, we wish to add...

Negative Side Number 4: Multiple login locations (minimum two, max 3)

How about the need for an additional login to access the invoicing, domain name and technical support administration software solution? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web hosting supplier. Now and then, based on the billing transaction tool (especially built for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting distributor is availing of, the earnest customers can wind up with 2 extra login places (1: the billing/domain name management platform; 2: the ticket support software), ending up with a total of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).

Negative Aspect Number 5: More than 120 hosting CP menus to become acquainted with... quickly

cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a glorious idea to learn each and every one of them. And you'd better pick them up fast... That's extremely impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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