What Indeed is cPanel Web Hosting?

For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel website hosting offerings on the contemporary website hosting marketplace are furnished by a very inconsiderable business segment (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-size business niche, which furnishes an immense amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering precisely the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offers on the entire web hosting market provide literally the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting prices are similar. Very identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/CP choice. So, there is only one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

200,000 "website hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet diversely named

The website hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google presents to us come down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Imagine you are simply a regular person who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web site development procedures and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domains and websites. Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any web hosting variant you can pick? Of course there is, at present there are more than 200,000 website hosting distributors out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different website hosting brand names around the world will offer you exactly the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, named differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how large the diversity on today's web hosting market is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple math shows that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a big strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably satisfied most web hosting market requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Downside Number 1: A laughable domain folder system

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extremely careful not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to erase on the web hosting server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed 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. See for yourself how great cPanel's domain name folder setup is:

Are you becoming perplexed? We undeniably are!

Weak Side Number Two: The very same email folder arrangement

The email folder configuration on the web hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin chaps firmly fortify their belief in God when coping with the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to screw things up too severely.

Downside Number 3: A sheer absence of domain management menus

Do we need to mention the utter shortage of a modern domain name management GUI - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domains' Whois info, shield the Whois info, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's an enormous shortcoming. An unjustifiable one, we want to point out...

Shortcoming No.4: Multiple login places (minimum 2, max 3)

How about the demand for another login to access the invoicing, domain and tech support administration software? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel website hosting company. Sometimes, depending on the billing platform (especially devised for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel website hosting firm is utilizing, the zealous customers can end up with 2 extra login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain management software solution; 2: the ticket support software solution), ending up with a total of 3 user login places (including cPanel).

Disadvantage No.5: More than a hundred and twenty website hosting CP menus to grasp... quickly

cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the web hosting CP. It's a terrific idea to become acquainted with each of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them briskly... That's way too arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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