What Precisely is cPanel Web Hosting?

For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel hosting offers on today's website hosting marketplace are furnished by a very inconsiderable business segment (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-sized marketing niche, which furnishes an immense number of different web hosting brands, yet supplying strictly the same services: mainly 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 web hosting market supply the very same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting price tags are alike. Very identical. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200k website hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

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

The hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us come down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Imagine you are simply a regular guy who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web page development procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domain names and web portals. Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any website hosting alternative you can pick? Of course there is, as of now there are more than 200,000 hosting vendors out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique website hosting brand names worldwide will offer you strictly the same cPanel hosting CP and platform, named differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the variety on the current web hosting market is... Period.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple math shows that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is an immense strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will occur! Less than one in 50...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly answered most web hosting business prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Sign No.1: An idiotic domain folder setup

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extra attentive not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to erase on the 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 is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Decide for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name folder arrangement is:

Are you growing nonplussed? We definitely are!

Drawback Number Two: The same electronic mail folder setup

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly strengthen their belief in God when tackling the electronic mail folders on the email server, praying not to mess things up too harshly.

Problem Number 3: A thorough shortage of domain name management sections

Do we have to cite the utter shortage of a modern domain manipulation platform - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, modify domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois information, change/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not contain such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a gigantic shortcoming. An unforgettable one, we would like to add...

Inconvenience No.4: Numerous user login locations (min 2, maximum three)

How about the necessity for an extra login to access the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support management section? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel hosting firm. Sometimes, on the basis of the invoice transaction tool (principally designed for cPanel only) the cPanel hosting vendor is using, the ardent users can wind up with 2 additional logins (1: the billing/domain management user interface; 2: the trouble ticket support GUI), ending up with a total of 3 login places (including cPanel).

Weak Point Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty website hosting Control Panel areas to become acquainted with... swiftly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a terrific idea to become acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them swiftly... That's inordinately arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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