What is cPanel Web Hosting?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based Web Hosting offerings on the current website hosting market are furnished by a very insubstantial marketing niche (when it comes to annual money flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-size marketing segment, which provides an immense number of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying one and the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offers on the entire hosting market furnish the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based Web Hosting price tags are identical. Very identical. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel option. So, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200k hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "Web Hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet differently named

The Web Hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google presents to us boil down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Imagine you are merely an ordinary bloke who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the site making procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domains and web pages. Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web hosting option you can select? Of course there is, these days there are more than 200k web hosting corporations in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ different web hosting brands all over the world will offer you literally the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, dubbed differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the assortment on the current website hosting market is... Full stop.

The Web Hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple math shows that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a great stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel-based Web Hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably satisfied most web hosting business preconditions. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Aspect Number 1: A dumb domain folder structure

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extremely cautious not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next 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 remove on the server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Check for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain name folder arrangement is:

Are you growing confused? We definitely are!

Weak Side Number 2: The same e-mail folder structure

The e-mail folder arrangement on the server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin boys strongly strengthen their faith in God when handling the email folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to mess things up too severely.

Weakness Number 3: A sheer lack of domain name manipulation interfaces

Do we need to point out the complete shortage of a contemporary domain name manipulation menu - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois info, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a major predicament. An unjustifiable one, we wish to add...

Drawback No.4: Numerous login places (minimum two, maximum three)

How about the need for another login to access the invoicing, domain name and tech support management software platform? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel Web Hosting vendor. At times, depending on the billing tool (principally made for cPanel solely) the cPanel Web Hosting distributor is availing of, the keen clients can end up with 2 extra logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain name administration system; 2: the ticket support software solution), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).

Disadvantage Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel areas to memorize... fast

cPanel presents for your consideration 120+ menus inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a wonderful idea to become familiar with each of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them briskly... That's extremely insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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