What is cPanel Web Hosting?

For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel hosting offers on the contemporary website hosting market are provided by a quite unsubstantial business niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small marketing niche, which supplies a big amount of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing precisely the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the website hosting offers on the whole web hosting market offer one and the very same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting prices are alike. Very much alike. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/web hosting CP alternative. So, there is simply one single fact: out of more than 200k website hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, note that one...

200k "hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently named

The hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us come down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Imagine you are just a regular chap who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the web site development procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and websites. Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any web hosting variant you can choose? Sure there is, at present there are more than 200k hosting providers out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different web hosting brands worldwide will give you the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the assortment on the present website hosting marketplace is... Period.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a colossal stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than one in 50...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably satisfied most web hosting market preconditions. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weakness No.1: An imbecilic domain folder setup

If you have two or more domain names, though, be extremely careful not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to erase on the web server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very 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 try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how good cPanel's domain folder configuration is:

Are you becoming disorientated? We certainly are!

Negative Sign Number Two: The same email folder configuration

The email folder structure on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys firmly enhance their faith in God when coping with the mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to mess things up too seriously.

Predicament No.3: An utter deficiency of domain manipulation sections

Do we have to bring up the utter lack of a contemporary domain name management user interface - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, alter domain names' Whois information, protect the Whois information, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not provide such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a mammoth shortcoming. An unjustifiable one, we wish to add...

Downside No.4: Many login places (minimum two, maximum 3)

What about the need for an extra login to use the billing transaction, domain and tech support administration GUI? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel hosting vendor. Now and then, on the basis of the billing tool (principally intended for cPanel only) the cPanel hosting company is making use of, the earnest users can wind up with two extra login places (1: the invoicing/domain management software solution; 2: the ticket support software solution), winding up with a total of 3 login locations (including cPanel).

Downside No.5: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel menus to get to know... briskly

cPanel presents to your attention 120+ sections inside the web hosting CP. It's a superb idea to get to know each one of them. And you'd better grasp them quickly... That's way too impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel hosting companies:

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