What Precisely is cPanel Website Hosting?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based web hosting offers on the contemporary web hosting market are provided by a very unsubstantial marketing segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-sized business niche, which generates a vast number of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing one and the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the website hosting offers on the entire web hosting market supply literally the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting price tags are identical. Very similar. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200,000 hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...

200,000 "web hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded

The web hosting "variety" and the hosting "offerings" Google presents to us boil down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Suppose you are simply an ordinary person who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the web page making processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domain names and web pages. Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any web hosting alternative you can decide upon? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than 200k web hosting service providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different hosting brand names all over the world will offer you the very same cPanel CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the variety on today's hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple math reveals that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is an enormous stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The pros and cons of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably met most website hosting industry preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weak Side Number 1: A stupid domain name folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extremely careful not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to erase on the server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Check for yourself how good cPanel's domain folder setup is:

Are you growing nonplussed? We clearly are!

Problem Number Two: The very same e-mail folder setup

The mail folder arrangement on the server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums firmly strengthen their faith in God when handling the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to botch things up too irreparably.

Weak Side Number 3: A sheer absence of domain name management sections

Do we have to cite the sheer shortage of a modern domain name administration menu - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, change domains' Whois information, protect the Whois information, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not supply such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a vast problem. An unjustifiable one, we would like to add...

Problem No.4: Multiple user login locations (minimum 2, max three)

How about the demand for an extra login to use the billing, domain name and technical support management GUI? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web hosting company. At times, depending on the invoicing transaction tool (especially built for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting provider is availing of, the keen users can end up with 2 extra logins (1: the invoicing/domain name management tool; 2: the trouble ticket support user interface), ending up with an aggregate of three user login places (counting cPanel).

Downside Number 5: More than 120 website hosting CP sections to get acquainted with... promptly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a glorious idea to become acquainted with each of them. And you'd better grasp them briskly... That's very arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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