What Precisely is cPanel Web Hosting?

For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel web hosting offerings on the present web hosting market are provided by a quite unsubstantial business segment (when it comes to yearly cash flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-size marketing niche, which provides a great quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying absolutely the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the website hosting offers on the entire web hosting marketplace provide the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web hosting price tags are similar. Very similar. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other hosting platform/web hosting CP option. Thus, there is merely one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...

200k "web hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named

The web hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us come down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Suppose you are only an average bloke who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the site creation procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and web sites. Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web hosting option you can decide upon? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than 200k web hosting service providers out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different web hosting brands worldwide will offer you precisely the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on the present-day web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple arithmetic shows that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is an enormous stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The strengths and weaknesses 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 probably fulfilled all web hosting market demands. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Side No.1: A foolish domain name folder arrangement

If you have two or more domains, though, be extremely cautious not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to erase on the hosting server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Observe for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain name folder setup is:

Are you getting bewildered? We definitely are!

Inconvenience Number 2: The same electronic mail folder system

The e-mail folder configuration on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin boys firmly increase their faith in God when tackling the email folders on the mail server, praying not to screw things up too gravely.

Negative Point No.3: A complete deficiency of domain name management options

Do we have to refer to the utter deficiency of a contemporary domain name administration user interface - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois info, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not have such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a major inconvenience. An unjustifiable one, we would like to add...

Downside No.4: Numerous login places (minimum two, max three)

What about the need for another login to make use of the invoicing transaction, domain and technical support management GUI? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web hosting distributor. Sometimes, on the basis of the invoice transaction tool (especially made for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting distributor is utilizing, the enthusiastic customers can wind up with two extra login locations (1: the billing/domain name administration software solution; 2: the trouble ticket support section), winding up with a total of 3 login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Point Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty hosting CP areas to learn... quickly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the hosting Control Panel. It's a wonderful idea to learn each of them. And you'd better become familiar with them swiftly... That's extremely insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web hosting providers:

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