What is cPanel Web Hosting?

For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel hosting offerings on the present website hosting marketplace are generated by a very inconsiderable business segment (as far as annual money flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a type of a small marketing niche, which generates a vast quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying strictly the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the website hosting offers on the whole website hosting marketplace furnish strictly the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting prices are alike. Quite identical. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/web hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200k website hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

200k "hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet diversely named

The hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us boil down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Assume you are just an ordinary chap who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the website development procedures and the hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domains and websites. Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any website hosting variant you can settle on? Of course there is, right now there are more than 200k hosting providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different website hosting brand names worldwide will offer you the very same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the variety on the current web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple arithmetic reveals that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is an immense stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably covered most web hosting business prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Sign Number One: A stupid domain folder system

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be ultra attentive not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to erase on the web hosting server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name folder system is:

Are you becoming bewildered? We certainly are!

Inconvenience Number 2: The very same email folder setup

The mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chaps firmly enhance their belief in God when coping with the mail folders on the email server, praying not to screw things up too badly.

Inconvenience Number Three: A thorough deficiency of domain administration user interfaces

Do we need to refer to the total deficiency of a modern domain manipulation tool - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois info, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a colossal weakness. An unpardonable one, we would like to point out...

Weak Point Number Four: Multiple user login locations (minimum two, maximum 3)

What about the need for an additional login to access the billing transaction, domain and tech support management platform? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based hosting supplier. At times, based on the invoice transaction platform (principally conceived for cPanel solely) the cPanel hosting company is making use of, the zealous customers can wind up with 2 additional login locations (1: the billing/domain name administration system; 2: the trouble ticket support user interface), winding up with a total of three login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Sign Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty hosting Control Panel departments to grasp... rapidly

cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a fantastic idea to become acquainted with each of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them quickly... That's excessively impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based hosting vendors:

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