What Precisely is cPanel Web Hosting?

For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel website hosting offerings on the current hosting market are furnished by a quite insubstantial business segment (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-scale marketing segment, which provides a great quantity of different web hosting brands, yet providing exactly the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the hosting offerings on the whole web hosting market supply literally the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel website hosting price tags are alike. Very much alike. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is only one fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "website hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded

The website hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us come down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Assume you are merely a regular fellow who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the web page development procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domain names and sites. Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any website hosting alternative you can choose? Of course there is, as of now there are more than 200k website hosting companies out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique web hosting brand names across the world will offer you the very same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the diversity on the present web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic reveals that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a gigantic stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

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 modern and perhaps satisfied most web hosting business prerequisites. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Disadvantage Number One: A stupid domain folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be ultra attentive not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to remove on the hosting server, because they all are located 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 name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain folder setup is:

Are you growing nonplussed? We certainly are!

Negative Side Number Two: The same mail folder system

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes strongly increase their faith in God when handling the mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to muck things up too severely.

Negative Side Number 3: A thorough absence of domain administration tools

Do we need to point out the total shortage of a contemporary domain name management platform - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, change domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois info, edit/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not have such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a big shortcoming. An unforgivable one, we would like to add...

Negative Point Number Four: Numerous login locations (min two, max 3)

What about the need for another login to make use of the invoice transaction, domain name and tech support administration system? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based website hosting distributor. Occasionally, on the basis of the invoicing platform (principally meant for cPanel solely) the cPanel website hosting corporation is using, the zealous users can end up with two extra login places (1: the invoicing/domain administration menu; 2: the ticket support software platform), ending up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).

Downside Number 5: More than 120 web hosting CP sections to get familiar with... swiftly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the hosting CP. It's an excellent idea to learn each one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them briskly... That's very arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based website hosting companies:

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