What is cPanel Web Hosting?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based hosting offers on the contemporary web hosting market are generated by a quite insignificant business segment (when it comes to yearly money flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small business niche, which provides a huge quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing absolutely the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offerings on the entire website hosting marketplace offer strictly the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting prices are alike. Quite similar. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel option. So, there is only one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...

200,000 "hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed

The hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google reveals to us come down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different hosting brand names. Assume you are merely a normal guy who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the website making procedures and the hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domain names and web pages. Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any web hosting alternative you can decide upon? Sure there is, now there are more than 200k web hosting companies in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ unique web hosting brands across the world will offer you exactly the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the variety on the contemporary website hosting market is... Period.

The hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple math demonstrates that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a colossal stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will occur! Less than one in 50...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly satisfied all hosting industry prerequisites. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Disadvantage No.1: A foolish domain folder structure

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extra careful not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to remove on the server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how good cPanel's domain name folder arrangement is:

Are you getting baffled? We definitely are!

Negative Side Number 2: The very same email folder arrangement

The mail folder configuration on the web server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The admin guys strongly increase their belief in God when tackling the e-mail folders on the email server, hoping not to mess things up too seriously.

Problem Number 3: A sheer deficiency of domain management tools

Do we have to bring up the entire shortage of a contemporary domain administration platform - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, edit domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois info, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not supply such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's an immense downside. An unforgivable one, we wish to add...

Weak Point Number Four: Multiple user login places (minimum two, maximum 3)

What about the necessity for another login to avail of the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support management interface? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel hosting company. Now and then, based on the billing transaction tool (especially built for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel hosting vendor is making use of, the avid clients can wind up with 2 extra login places (1: the billing transaction/domain administration platform; 2: the ticket support tool), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (including cPanel).

Drawback Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty hosting CP areas to learn... quickly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 sections inside the website hosting CP. It's a great idea to learn each and every one of them. And you'd better grasp them promptly... That's inordinately insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based hosting service providers:

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