What In Fact is cPanel Web Hosting?

For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel web hosting offers on the present web hosting market are provided by a very insignificant business segment (when it comes to annual capital flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-scale marketing niche, which generates an enormous quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering one and the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the website hosting offerings on the whole website hosting marketplace provide absolutely the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web hosting prices are identical. Very similar. Giving those who need a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is only one single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

200k "web hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely named

The web hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us come down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different hosting trademarked names. Assume you are just a normal guy who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the site creation processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domains and web portals. Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any website hosting option you can opt for? Sure there is, today there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting firms out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique web hosting brands around the world will offer you absolutely the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the variety on the present-day website hosting market is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a huge strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably covered all web hosting market demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Shortcoming Number 1: A foolish domain folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be ultra careful not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to delete on the hosting server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very 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 attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. See for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain name folder structure is:

Are you getting confused? We undeniably are!

Negative Point No.2: The same e-mail folder arrangement

The email folder structure on the web hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums firmly strengthen their faith in God when tackling the email folders on the mail server, praying not to screw things up too harshly.

Disadvantage No.3: A complete absence of domain administration options

Do we need to refer to the complete lack of a modern domain manipulation menu - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, modify domains' Whois info, protect the Whois info, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "modern" tool at all. That's a colossal inconvenience. An unforgivable one, we want to add...

Disadvantage Number Four: Multiple user login places (minimum two, max 3)

How about the need for another login to access the billing, domain name and technical support management system? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web hosting distributor. Now and then, depending on the invoicing platform (especially meant for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting supplier is availing of, the zealous clients can end up with 2 extra login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain name management section; 2: the ticket support software), winding up with an aggregate of three user login locations (including cPanel).

Drawback No.5: 120+ web hosting Control Panel departments to become familiar with... rapidly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's an excellent idea to pick up each of them. And you'd better grasp them fast... That's way too arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web hosting firms:

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