What In Fact is cPanel Web Hosting?

For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel website hosting offerings on the contemporary web hosting marketplace are generated by a quite unsubstantial business segment (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small marketing niche, which provides an immense amount of different web hosting brands, yet supplying the very same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the website hosting offers on the whole website hosting market offer one and the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting price tags are identical. Quite identical. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/web hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is only a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...

200,000 "website hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly branded

The website hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us come down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are just a regular fellow who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the website making processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domain names and web portals. Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any website hosting variant you can settle on? Sure there is, these days there are more than 200k web hosting service providers out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand unique web hosting brand names in the world will offer you the very same cPanel hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on the current website hosting market is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a colossal strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

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

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably answered all website hosting industry demands. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Problem Number 1: An imbecilic domain name folder system

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extra watchful not to erase completely 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 name). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to erase on the hosting server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous 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 attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Check for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain folder system is:

Are you growing bewildered? We surely are!

Weakness Number 2: The same e-mail folder setup

The electronic mail folder structure on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chaps strongly fortify their faith in God when coping with the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to screw things up too severely.

Downside Number Three: A total absence of domain name management sections

Do we have to mention the entire deficiency of a modern domain name manipulation menu - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, modify domain names' Whois information, protect the Whois details, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a great weakness. An unjustifiable one, we want to point out...

Disadvantage Number 4: Multiple login locations (min 2, maximum three)

What about the need for another login to avail of the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support management software platform? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based website hosting provider. Sometimes, depending on the billing transaction system (particularly developed for cPanel only) the cPanel website hosting provider is availing of, the eager users can wind up with 2 extra login places (1: the billing transaction/domain name administration system; 2: the ticket support software solution), winding up with a total of three login locations (counting cPanel).

Shortcoming Number Five: More than 120 hosting CP sections to grasp... briskly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a superb idea to pick up each one of them. And you'd better get to know them promptly... That's extremely impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting suppliers:

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