What is cPanel Web Hosting?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based web hosting offers on the present web hosting marketplace are generated by a quite insignificant marketing niche (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-scale marketing segment, which furnishes an enormous number of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying exactly the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offers on the whole hosting marketplace offer precisely the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web hosting price tags are alike. Quite identical. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is just one fact: out of more than 200k website hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "web hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly branded

The web hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google reveals to us boil down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Imagine you are just an ordinary chap who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the website creation procedures and the hosting platforms, which actually power the various domains and online portals. Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any website hosting option you can settle on? Of course there is, these days there are more than 200k web hosting providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different web hosting brands worldwide will give you the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, named differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the variety on the contemporary website hosting market is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a colossal stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than one in 50...

The pluses and minuses 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 perhaps covered all web hosting business requirements. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weakness Number 1: An imbecilic domain folder configuration

If you have two or more domain names, though, be ultra attentive not to delete fully 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). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to remove on the web server, since they all are set up 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. Verify for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain folder system is:

Are you getting nonplussed? We unquestionably are!

Downside Number Two: The very same email folder setup

The mail folder configuration on the hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin guys firmly strengthen their belief in God when managing the mail folders on the email server, praying not to botch things up too gravely.

Weakness Number 3: A total shortage of domain administration menus

Do we need to point out the sheer deficiency of a contemporary domain name manipulation platform - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, edit domains' Whois info, protect the Whois info, change/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a major disadvantage. An unpardonable one, we would like to point out...

Shortcoming Number 4: Numerous user login locations (minimum 2, max 3)

How about the necessity for an extra login to avail of the billing, domain name and tech support management software platform? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web hosting supplier. Occasionally, on the basis of the billing transaction system (particularly meant for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting firm is availing of, the zealous users can end up with two additional login places (1: the invoicing/domain name management platform; 2: the trouble ticket support system), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (including cPanel).

Weakness Number 5: More than 120 hosting CP departments to get familiar with... quickly

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ departments inside the web hosting CP. It's a glorious idea to memorize each one of them. And you'd better learn them briskly... That's excessively impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web hosting suppliers:

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