What Precisely is cPanel Web Hosting?

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel Web Hosting offers on the present-day web hosting market are provided by a quite inconsiderable marketing niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small business segment, which supplies an immense quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing the very same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the website hosting offerings on the entire hosting market offer the very same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel Web Hosting prices are alike. Very similar. Giving those who require a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is merely a single fact: out of more than 200k hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "Web Hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed

The Web Hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google shows to us boil down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are only a regular person who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the site making processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domain names and sites. Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web hosting variant you can opt for? Sure there is, today there are more than 200,000 web hosting suppliers in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different web hosting brand names worldwide will give you the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the assortment on today's web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The Web Hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a mammoth strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel Web Hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably met all web hosting business preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weakness Number One: A dumb domain name folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be very watchful not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to remove on the hosting server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. See for yourself how great cPanel's domain name folder arrangement is:

Are you growing disorientated? We absolutely are!

Weak Point Number 2: The very same mail folder structure

The mail folder arrangement on the server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chums firmly strengthen their faith in God when coping with the email folders on the mail server, hoping not to muck things up too irretrievably.

Problem Number 3: A total lack of domain administration interfaces

Do we have to point out the absolute deficiency of a contemporary domain manipulation menu - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domains' Whois info, secure the Whois information, change/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a huge downside. An unforgettable one, we wish to add...

Shortcoming Number 4: Many user login locations (minimum two, max 3)

How about the demand for an additional login to use the billing transaction, domain and tech support administration section? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel Web Hosting corporation. At times, based on the invoicing transaction system (especially built for cPanel only) the cPanel Web Hosting supplier is utilizing, the earnest customers can end up with two extra login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration interface; 2: the ticket support tool), ending up with an aggregate of three login locations (counting cPanel).

Weak Side Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty website hosting Control Panel menus to learn... fast

cPanel presents for your consideration 120+ areas inside the website hosting CP. It's an excellent idea to get acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better get to know them promptly... That's excessively impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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