What Precisely is cPanel Web Hosting?

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel web hosting offers on the current website hosting market are generated by a very inconsiderable marketing niche (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small marketing segment, which supplies an immense quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying absolutely the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offerings on the entire web hosting market offer the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting prices are identical. Very much alike. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/web hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is just one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...

Two hundred thousand "web hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded

The web hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us boil down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just a regular guy who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the web page creation procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domains and web sites. Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any web hosting variant you can pick? Sure there is, these days there are more than 200k web hosting distributors out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique web hosting brands worldwide will give you the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, named differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on the present-day website hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic shows that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a big stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably answered all website hosting industry prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Problem No.1: A foolish domain folder structure

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be very careful not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to delete on the web server, because they all are situated 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 situated 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. Examine for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain folder setup is:

Are you getting perplexed? We absolutely are!

Weakness Number Two: The very same mail folder setup

The email folder arrangement on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin boys firmly enhance their faith in God when managing the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to botch things up too severely.

Weak Point Number 3: An absolute shortage of domain manipulation options

Do we need to refer to the thorough shortage of a modern domain administration tool - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, change domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois info, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a great inconvenience. An unjustifiable one, we want to point out...

Negative Aspect Number 4: Multiple login locations (minimum 2, maximum 3)

How about the need for an extra login to make use of the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support management GUI? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web hosting company. Sometimes, based on the invoicing tool (principally created for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting supplier is availing of, the eager clients can end up with 2 additional login locations (1: the billing/domain management GUI; 2: the trouble ticket support software solution), ending up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).

Drawback Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty website hosting CP departments to grasp... swiftly

cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the web hosting CP. It's a glorious idea to get acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better pick them up quickly... That's very impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web hosting distributors:

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