What is cPanel Web Hosting?

For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel Web Hosting offers on the present web hosting marketplace are supplied by a very inconsiderable business segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-scale business niche, which provides an enormous quantity of different web hosting brands, yet providing exactly the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offerings on the whole website hosting marketplace provide exactly the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel Web Hosting price tags are identical. Very much alike. Giving those who require a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel option. So, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...

200k "Web Hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named

The Web Hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us come down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are only a regular chap who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the web site development procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domain names and web sites. Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any website hosting alternative you can choose? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ unique web hosting brand names all over the world will offer you exactly the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the variety on today's web hosting market is... Period.

The Web Hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple math shows that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is an immense stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel-based Web Hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably fulfilled all website hosting market prerequisites. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Side Number One: A laughable domain name folder structure

If you have two or more domain names, however, be extra watchful not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to delete 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 name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Decide for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain name folder structure is:

Are you becoming baffled? We definitely are!

Weak Point Number 2: The very same e-mail folder configuration

The electronic mail folder structure on the web hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin blokes strongly increase their faith in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the mail server, praying not to muck things up too irreparably.

Negative Aspect No.3: An absolute absence of domain name administration GUIs

Do we have to cite the complete shortage of a modern domain management interface - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domain names' Whois details, shield the Whois details, modify/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "modern" menu at all. That's a vast disadvantage. An unforgettable one, we wish to point out...

Negative Side Number Four: Multiple login places (minimum 2, max 3)

What about the demand for an additional login to use the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support administration software solution? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel Web Hosting corporation. At times, on the basis of the invoicing transaction system (especially conceived for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel Web Hosting distributor is utilizing, the devoted clients can wind up with 2 additional login locations (1: the invoicing/domain name administration platform; 2: the ticket support menu), winding up with a total of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).

Shortcoming Number 5: More than 120 hosting Control Panel sections to learn... rapidly

cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the Control Panel. It's a superb idea to grasp each and every one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them quickly... That's inordinately arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Web Hosting distributors:

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