What Actually is cPanel Web Hosting?

For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based website hosting offerings on the current website hosting market are supplied by a quite insignificant marketing niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) called hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-scale business segment, which supplies a vast quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing strictly the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offers on the entire web hosting market provide strictly the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel website hosting price tags are identical. Quite identical. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/hosting CP alternative. So, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...

200,000 "website hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named

The website hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us come down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Imagine you are just an ordinary bloke who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web site development processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domains and sites. Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any web hosting alternative you can opt for? Sure there is, as of now there are more than 200,000 web hosting vendors out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique web hosting brand names worldwide will give you exactly the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, named differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the assortment on the contemporary web hosting market is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics reveals that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is an enormous stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly covered most web hosting business demands. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Inconvenience Number One: A foolish domain name folder system

If you have two or more domain names, however, be ultra watchful not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to remove on the web hosting server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated 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. See for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain folder system is:

Are you getting disorientated? We positively are!

Predicament No.2: The very same e-mail folder arrangement

The mail folder structure on the hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin blokes strongly increase their faith in God when dealing with the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to muck things up too harshly.

Weak Side No.3: A thorough lack of domain name management GUIs

Do we need to mention the entire absence of a modern domain name management interface - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domains' Whois details, shield the Whois information, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a major shortcoming. An unjustifiable one, we want to add...

Weakness Number Four: Multiple user login places (minimum two, maximum 3)

How about the necessity for another login to access the invoice transaction, domain name and tech support management platform? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel website hosting company. At times, on the basis of the invoicing transaction platform (especially built for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel website hosting company is making use of, the enthusiastic users can end up with two extra login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain management interface; 2: the trouble ticket support user interface), winding up with a total of three user login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Point Number Five: 120+ web hosting CP sections to memorize... promptly

cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a wonderful idea to get to know each and every one of them. And you'd better grasp them promptly... That's excessively insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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