What In Fact is cPanel Website Hosting?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based web hosting offerings on the current web hosting market are provided by a quite insubstantial marketing niche (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a kind of a small business niche, which supplies an immense amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering precisely the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the website hosting offerings on the whole web hosting market offer strictly the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web hosting prices are alike. Very identical. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is only a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...

200k "web hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed

The web hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google presents to us boil down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Imagine you are merely an ordinary guy who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the website development processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domain names and websites. Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web hosting option you can select? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting corporations out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different web hosting brands in the world will offer you literally the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the variety on the current website hosting market is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple mathematics reveals that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a huge strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably met all hosting industry requirements. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weakness No.1: A dumb domain folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be ultra attentive not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to erase on the web hosting server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Verify for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain folder configuration is:

Are you growing nonplussed? We doubtlessly are!

Disadvantage Number 2: The same electronic mail folder structure

The mail folder configuration on the hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin chaps strongly increase their faith in God when managing the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to mess things up too harshly.

Shortcoming No.3: A sheer deficiency of domain name management interfaces

Do we have to point out the thorough deficiency of a modern domain name management GUI - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, change domains' Whois info, protect the Whois info, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not involve such a "modern" menu at all. That's a considerable problem. An unpardonable one, we would like to add...

Negative Sign Number 4: Multiple user login places (min two, maximum three)

What about the demand for an extra login to make use of the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support administration software? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web hosting company. Now and then, on the basis of the invoicing system (especially intended for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting corporation is using, the devoted customers can wind up with 2 additional logins (1: the billing/domain management user interface; 2: the ticket support section), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Side No.5: More than one hundred and twenty hosting Control Panel departments to become familiar with... swiftly

cPanel presents to your attention 120+ areas inside the web hosting CP. It's a wonderful idea to become acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them briskly... That's extremely insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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