What Indeed is cPanel Website Hosting?

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based Website Hosting offerings on today's hosting market are furnished by a very insubstantial business niche (when it comes to yearly money flow) called hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small business niche, which furnishes a big quantity of different web hosting brands, yet providing precisely the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offers on the whole web hosting marketplace provide exactly the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based Website Hosting price tags are identical. Very much alike. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/hosting CP choice. Thus, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200k hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, note that one...

200k "Website Hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded

The Website Hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us boil down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are merely a regular guy who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the website making processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domains and web pages. Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web hosting variant you can decide upon? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than 200k web hosting distributors out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different web hosting brands across the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on the current web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The Website Hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math demonstrates that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a mammoth stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

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

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably met most hosting market preconditions. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Sign Number One: A stupid domain folder system

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extremely attentive not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to delete on the web server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Determine for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain folder arrangement is:

Are you becoming puzzled? We positively are!

Negative Aspect Number 2: The same electronic mail folder setup

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the web server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chaps firmly enhance their belief in God when coping with the email folders on the mail server, hoping not to screw things up too harshly.

Predicament Number 3: An entire lack of domain name management tools

Do we have to cite the utter lack of a modern domain administration tool - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, change domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois details, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" tool at all. That's a vast predicament. An unpardonable one, we want to point out...

Disadvantage Number 4: Multiple login locations (minimum two, max three)

How about the necessity for another login to use the invoice transaction, domain name and tech support management tool? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based Website Hosting provider. Now and then, based on the invoicing system (principally made for cPanel solely) the cPanel Website Hosting service provider is availing of, the devoted users can wind up with 2 additional login locations (1: the invoicing/domain name administration menu; 2: the trouble ticket support menu), winding up with an aggregate of three user login places (including cPanel).

Shortcoming Number Five: 120+ web hosting Control Panel areas to pick up... fast

cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the hosting Control Panel. It's a superb idea to become acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better memorize them fast... That's extremely arrogant 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 aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one too...