What Indeed is cPanel Web Hosting?

For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based website hosting offerings on the current website hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite insignificant marketing niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-scale marketing segment, which supplies a vast amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering strictly the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the hosting offers on the whole web hosting market furnish literally the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel website hosting prices are alike. Quite identical. Giving those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/web hosting CP alternative. So, there is merely a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...

200,000 "website hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet differently named

The website hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us come down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Imagine you are merely a regular fellow who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the site making processes and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and web pages. Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any website hosting alternative you can pick? Sure there is, as of now there are more than 200,000 website hosting service providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique web hosting brand names around the world will offer you the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the variety on the contemporary hosting market is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics shows that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a great stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will occur! Less than one in 50...

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

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably fulfilled all hosting market requirements. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weak Side Number 1: A foolish domain name folder setup

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be ultra attentive not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to delete on the web 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 placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Decide for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain folder configuration is:

Are you becoming disorientated? We unquestionably are!

Inconvenience Number 2: The same electronic mail folder configuration

The mail folder configuration on the web server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin chaps firmly strengthen their belief in God when handling the mail folders on the email server, hoping not to botch things up too seriously.

Negative Aspect Number 3: An utter lack of domain manipulation options

Do we need to cite the entire absence of a modern domain name management tool - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, alter domain names' Whois information, protect the Whois details, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a great shortcoming. An unforgettable one, we would like to point out...

Negative Side Number 4: Multiple login locations (min 2, max three)

How about the need for another login to use the billing transaction, domain and technical support management interface? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel website hosting distributor. At times, based on the billing transaction system (particularly made for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel website hosting service provider is availing of, the devoted clients can wind up with 2 extra logins (1: the billing transaction/domain name management user interface; 2: the trouble ticket support platform), ending up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (including cPanel).

Negative Sign No.5: More than a hundred and twenty website hosting Control Panel areas to get to know... promptly

cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the hosting Control Panel. It's a marvelous idea to get to know each one of them. And you'd better learn them promptly... That's quite insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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