What is cPanel Web Hosting?

For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel website hosting offerings on today's website hosting marketplace are furnished by a very unsubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to annual capital flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-size business segment, which generates an enormous number of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing precisely the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offerings on the whole hosting marketplace offer the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel website hosting price tags are similar. Very much alike. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service practically no other hosting platform/website hosting CP option. So, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

200,000 "website hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed

The website hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google shows to us come down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are merely an average bloke who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the web page creation procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domains and online portals. Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web hosting option you can decide upon? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than 200k web hosting vendors out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique web hosting brand names worldwide will give you precisely the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the variety on the contemporary web hosting market is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple arithmetic reveals that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a great strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps met most website hosting business requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Aspect No.1: A dumb domain name folder structure

If you have two or more domain names, though, be extra 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 name). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to erase on the hosting server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous 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 remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how great cPanel's domain name folder setup is:

Are you getting confused? We clearly are!

Inconvenience No.2: The very same e-mail folder arrangement

The mail folder configuration on the server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin chaps strongly fortify their belief in God when coping with the email folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to botch things up too irretrievably.

Weakness No.3: A total lack of domain name administration GUIs

Do we have to bring up the thorough deficiency of a modern domain management platform - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois info, modify/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a major inconvenience. An unforgivable one, we would like to point out...

Negative Point Number Four: Many login places (minimum 2, max 3)

How about the need for an additional login to utilize the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support administration section? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based website hosting distributor. At times, based on the billing system (principally built for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel website hosting corporation is availing of, the ardent clients can wind up with 2 extra login places (1: the billing transaction/domain management GUI; 2: the trouble ticket support system), winding up with a total of three login locations (counting cPanel).

Inconvenience Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty website hosting CP areas to memorize... swiftly

cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 menus inside the web hosting CP. It's a glorious idea to pick up each one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them quickly... That's quite impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting firms:

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