What is cPanel Website Hosting?

For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel website hosting offers on the present-day web hosting marketplace are furnished by a very insubstantial marketing niche (when it comes to yearly money flow) called hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small business segment, which provides an enormous quantity of different web hosting brands, yet offering the very same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offerings on the whole web hosting market offer the very same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel website hosting prices are similar. Very similar. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200k website hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...

200k "website hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled

The website hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google presents to us come down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different hosting trademarked names. Assume you are merely a normal bloke who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the website creation procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domains and web portals. Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any website hosting option you can select? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than 200,000 web hosting service providers out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ different website hosting brands around the world will give you the same cPanel Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the diversity on the current web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a big stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly answered most web hosting industry demands. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Side No.1: A foolish domain name folder structure

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extra attentive not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to erase on the hosting server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous 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 excellent cPanel's domain name folder setup is:

Are you growing disorientated? We clearly are!

Negative Aspect Number Two: The same mail folder configuration

The e-mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Making the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly strengthen their belief in God when managing the email folders on the e-mail server, praying not to mess things up too gravely.

Weak Point Number Three: An absolute deficiency of domain name management interfaces

Do we need to point out the sheer shortage of a contemporary domain management GUI - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, change domain names' Whois details, protect the Whois information, modify/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a colossal predicament. An unforgettable one, we wish to point out...

Disadvantage Number Four: Multiple user login locations (min two, maximum three)

How about the need for another login to avail of the invoicing, domain name and tech support management software platform? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based website hosting corporation. Occasionally, based on the invoice transaction tool (principally designed for cPanel solely) the cPanel website hosting corporation is using, the ardent users can wind up with two extra logins (1: the invoicing/domain name administration software platform; 2: the ticket support menu), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (including cPanel).

Weakness No.5: More than one hundred and twenty website hosting CP menus to learn... quickly

cPanel presents to your attention 120+ departments inside the Control Panel. It's a superb idea to become acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them rapidly... That's way too arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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