What is cPanel Website Hosting?

For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based Website Hosting offerings on the present web hosting market are generated by a quite unsubstantial marketing segment (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-size marketing niche, which supplies an immense quantity of different web hosting brands, yet supplying literally the same thing: 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 website hosting marketplace provide the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based Website Hosting prices are alike. Very identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/CP alternative. Thus, there is simply one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, note that one...

200k "Website Hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled

The Website Hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google presents to us boil down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are merely an ordinary bloke who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the web site creation procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domain names and websites. Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web hosting variant you can choose? Sure there is, right now there are more than 200,000 hosting vendors in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different web hosting brands in the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the variety on the present-day website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The Website Hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

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

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel Website Hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps fulfilled all web hosting business demands. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weak Point No.1: A ludicrous domain name folder configuration

If you have two or more domain names, though, be extremely careful not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to delete on the server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Decide for yourself how great cPanel's domain folder configuration is:

Are you becoming bewildered? We unquestionably are!

Negative Aspect No.2: The same e-mail folder system

The electronic mail folder configuration on the hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chaps strongly fortify their belief in God when dealing with the electronic mail folders on the mail server, praying not to muck things up too severely.

Problem No.3: An absolute lack of domain name management sections

Do we need to point out the sheer deficiency of a contemporary domain manipulation platform - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domain names' Whois details, protect the Whois info, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a vast weakness. An unpardonable one, we want to point out...

Disadvantage Number 4: Numerous login places (min 2, maximum 3)

How about the necessity for another login to avail of the billing transaction, domain and technical support management user interface? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based Website Hosting corporation. Sometimes, depending on the billing system (particularly conceived for cPanel only) the cPanel Website Hosting corporation is availing of, the avid users can wind up with two extra login places (1: the invoicing/domain administration user interface; 2: the trouble ticket support GUI), ending up with a total of three login locations (counting cPanel).

Negative Aspect Number 5: 120+ web hosting Control Panel areas to get to know... rapidly

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ departments inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a fine idea to learn each one of them. And you'd better pick them up promptly... That's excessively arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Website Hosting firms:

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