What Indeed is cPanel Website Hosting?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel web hosting offers on the present-day website hosting market are generated by a very insubstantial business segment (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-scale business niche, which furnishes a vast amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing absolutely the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the hosting offerings on the whole website hosting market furnish one and the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web hosting prices are identical. Quite identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is simply one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, note that one...

200k "web hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed

The web hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us boil down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Assume you are only a regular bloke who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the website development procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and web pages. Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any website hosting alternative you can opt for? Sure there is, today there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting distributors out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique web hosting brand names across the world will give you precisely the same cPanel CP and platform, branded differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the assortment on today's website hosting market is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple math shows that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a great strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps met all hosting business demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Sign Number 1: An idiotic domain name folder structure

If you have two or more domains, though, be extremely watchful not to remove fully 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). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to remove on the hosting server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Check for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain name folder arrangement is:

Are you getting perplexed? We clearly are!

Disadvantage No.2: The very same mail folder structure

The email folder structure on the hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin boys strongly fortify their faith in God when coping with the electronic mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too harshly.

Weak Side No.3: An entire shortage of domain management GUIs

Do we have to cite the absolute lack of a contemporary domain manipulation menu - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois details, alter/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not involve such a "modern" menu at all. That's a huge downside. An unforgivable one, we would like to add...

Negative Sign No.4: Numerous user login places (minimum 2, maximum three)

What about the need for an extra login to utilize the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support administration software? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web hosting distributor. Sometimes, based on the invoicing transaction tool (especially created for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting company is availing of, the devoted users can wind up with 2 additional login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain administration user interface; 2: the trouble ticket support interface), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login places (including cPanel).

Weak Point Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting CP menus to become acquainted with... fast

cPanel presents to your attention 120+ menus inside the web hosting CP. It's a fine idea to become familiar with each one of them. And you'd better pick them up quickly... That's quite impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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