What is cPanel Web Hosting?

For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel web hosting offers on the contemporary web hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite insignificant marketing niche (when it comes to annual money flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-sized business niche, which furnishes a vast quantity of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing exactly the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offers on the whole website hosting market supply the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting price tags are alike. Very much alike. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/website hosting CP option. Thus, there is only one single fact: out of more than 200k website hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "web hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled

The web hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google reveals to us boil down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Imagine you are simply a regular fellow who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web page making procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the various domains and websites. Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any website hosting option you can pick? Of course there is, right now there are more than 200k web hosting distributors out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different website hosting brands all over the world will offer you literally the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the variety on the current web hosting market is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is an enormous stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than one in 50...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably covered all web hosting market demands. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Inconvenience No.1: An idiotic domain folder system

If you have two or more domains, however, be very cautious not to remove completely 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 name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to erase on the web hosting server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Verify for yourself how great cPanel's domain folder configuration is:

Are you becoming puzzled? We positively are!

Weak Side Number 2: The very same mail folder system

The email folder arrangement on the web hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly enhance their faith in God when handling the mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to botch things up too irretrievably.

Shortcoming Number Three: An utter deficiency of domain name management menus

Do we need to refer to the sheer absence of a contemporary domain name management GUI - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, alter domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois information, change/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a huge drawback. An inexcusable one, we want to point out...

Downside Number Four: Numerous login locations (min two, maximum 3)

What about the need for an extra login to avail of the invoicing transaction, domain name and technical support management software platform? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web hosting distributor. Sometimes, on the basis of the invoice transaction system (principally intended for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting service provider is using, the avid users can wind up with 2 extra logins (1: the billing/domain administration software; 2: the trouble ticket support section), winding up with a total of three login locations (including cPanel).

Predicament Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting CP menus to become familiar with... quickly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 areas inside the hosting Control Panel. It's a superb idea to become familiar with each one of them. And you'd better get to know them rapidly... That's excessively impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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