What Actually is cPanel Web Hosting?

For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based web hosting offerings on the present website hosting market are provided by a quite insubstantial marketing niche (when it comes to yearly cash flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small business segment, which supplies an enormous quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying precisely the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offers on the entire hosting market offer one and the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting prices are alike. Very similar. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/web hosting CP alternative. So, there is merely a single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

200,000 "web hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly branded

The web hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us come down to just one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are just an average chap who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the site creation procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domain names and web sites. Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any hosting variant you can pick? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting vendors in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different hosting brands worldwide will give you literally the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, dubbed differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how great the assortment on the present-day web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic reveals that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a great stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly covered all web hosting market requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weak Side Number One: A laughable domain folder structure

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be ultra attentive not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to remove on the web server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, 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 attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. See for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain folder system is:

Are you becoming perplexed? We definitely are!

Drawback Number 2: The same email folder setup

The e-mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin boys firmly increase their faith in God when dealing with the electronic mail folders on the mail server, praying not to screw things up too fatally.

Predicament Number 3: A thorough deficiency of domain administration tools

Do we have to bring up the utter shortage of a contemporary domain administration interface - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, change domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois information, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a big weakness. An inexcusable one, we wish to point out...

Negative Sign Number Four: Many user login locations (min two, max three)

How about the need for an additional login to use the billing transaction, domain and tech support management system? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web hosting company. Sometimes, based on the billing transaction tool (particularly tailored for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting corporation is making use of, the zealous clients can wind up with two extra login places (1: the billing/domain name administration tool; 2: the trouble ticket support menu), ending up with an aggregate of three user login locations (counting cPanel).

Negative Point No.5: More than 120 website hosting CP sections to pick up... fast

cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the website hosting CP. It's a terrific idea to get to know each and every one of them. And you'd better grasp them rapidly... That's quite insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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