What is cPanel Website Hosting?

For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based web hosting offers on today's web hosting marketplace are furnished by a very insubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to yearly cash flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small marketing niche, which furnishes a vast quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying absolutely the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offers on the whole web hosting market furnish the very same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting price tags are similar. Very similar. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

Two hundred thousand "web hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded

The web hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us boil down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are simply an ordinary person who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the website making procedures and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domain names and web pages. Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any website hosting variant you can select? Of course there is, as of now there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting distributors in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different web hosting brands across the world will give you strictly the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the diversity on today's hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics reveals that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is an enormous strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps fulfilled all website hosting industry preconditions. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Drawback No.1: A dumb domain name folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extremely cautious not to erase completely 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 domain names are quite simple to erase on the hosting server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Check for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain name folder configuration is:

Are you becoming baffled? We doubtlessly are!

Problem Number 2: The very same email folder system

The e-mail folder structure on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin chaps firmly increase their belief in God when tackling the electronic mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to mess things up too fatally.

Shortcoming Number 3: An utter absence of domain manipulation options

Do we need to point out the complete shortage of a modern domain management menu - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois info, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a colossal weakness. An unforgettable one, we would like to add...

Negative Aspect Number Four: Multiple user login locations (min two, max 3)

What about the necessity for another login to make use of the invoicing, domain name and tech support management section? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web hosting vendor. Now and then, depending on the invoicing transaction tool (particularly conceived for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting corporation is making use of, the avid customers can wind up with two extra logins (1: the billing transaction/domain administration GUI; 2: the ticket support software), winding up with an aggregate of three login locations (including cPanel).

Problem No.5: 120+ website hosting CP areas to grasp... promptly

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 areas inside the web hosting CP. It's a superb idea to grasp each of them. And you'd better get familiar with them fast... That's way too arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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