What Exactly 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 market are supplied by a very insubstantial marketing niche (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-sized marketing segment, which supplies an enormous amount of different web hosting brands, yet offering precisely the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offerings on the entire website hosting marketplace furnish exactly the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting price tags are similar. Very similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other hosting platform/web hosting CP choice. Thus, there is only one single fact: out of more than 200k hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...

Two hundred thousand "web hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed

The web hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us come down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are merely a regular chap who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the website making processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domain names and sites. Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any web hosting variant you can settle on? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than 200,000 website hosting distributors out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different web hosting brand names all over the world will give you exactly the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the variety on the contemporary website hosting market is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple math shows that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a gigantic 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 positive and negative aspects of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably answered all hosting market demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weak Point No.1: A moronic domain folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extremely careful not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to remove on the web server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very 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 try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name folder structure is:

Are you becoming confused? We undoubtedly are!

Negative Side Number Two: The very same mail folder system

The e-mail folder structure on the web hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The admin boys strongly fortify their faith in God when managing the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to muck things up too fatally.

Weakness Number Three: A complete absence of domain name administration sections

Do we have to mention the thorough absence of a modern domain name administration GUI - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domains' Whois information, secure the Whois details, modify/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" interface at all. That's a mammoth problem. An unforgivable one, we would like to point out...

Downside Number 4: Numerous login places (min 2, maximum three)

What about the necessity for an additional login to access the billing transaction, domain name and tech support administration software? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web hosting provider. Now and then, on the basis of the invoicing tool (particularly conceived for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting supplier is making use of, the avid users can end up with two additional login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name management software solution; 2: the trouble ticket support section), winding up with an aggregate of three login locations (counting cPanel).

Weak Point Number Five: 120+ hosting Control Panel sections to become acquainted with... swiftly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 areas inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a fabulous idea to memorize each of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them fast... That's excessively impudent on cPanel's side.

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

As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one too...