What is cPanel Web Hosting?

For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based Web Hosting offers on the current website hosting market are generated by a quite inconsiderable marketing segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small business niche, which provides a vast amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing strictly the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the website hosting offers on the entire hosting market furnish precisely the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel Web Hosting price tags are identical. Quite similar. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/Control Panel alternative. So, there is only a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, note that one...

200,000 "Web Hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet diversely named

The Web Hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google presents to us boil down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Assume you are simply a regular person who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the website making procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domains and web sites. Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any website hosting alternative you can select? Sure there is, at present there are more than 200k web hosting corporations out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique website hosting brand names around the world will offer you exactly the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, branded differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the variety on today's hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The Web Hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics reveals that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting company is an enormous stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel-based Web Hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably met all website hosting business prerequisites. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Inconvenience No.1: A stupid domain name folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be very watchful not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to delete on the hosting server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Observe for yourself how great cPanel's domain name folder structure is:

Are you becoming disorientated? We certainly are!

Negative Aspect Number 2: The very same electronic mail folder setup

The email folder configuration on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin boys strongly reinforce their faith in God when tackling the email folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to muck things up too harshly.

Downside No.3: An absolute shortage of domain name administration tools

Do we have to point out the sheer lack of a contemporary domain management platform - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois information, change/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a gigantic disadvantage. An inexcusable one, we want to add...

Negative Point Number Four: Many user login places (minimum two, max 3)

What about the necessity for an additional login to utilize the invoicing, domain name and tech support management interface? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based Web Hosting corporation. Occasionally, depending on the invoicing tool (especially conceived for cPanel only) the cPanel Web Hosting provider is availing of, the zealous users can end up with two extra login places (1: the billing/domain administration tool; 2: the ticket support platform), winding up with a total of three login places (counting cPanel).

Disadvantage Number Five: More than 120 website hosting Control Panel departments to become familiar with... briskly

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ sections inside the hosting CP. It's a fine idea to pick up each of them. And you'd better grasp them quickly... That's inordinately impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Web Hosting service providers:

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