What Exactly is cPanel Web Hosting?

For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based web hosting offers on the contemporary web hosting market are generated by a quite inconsiderable marketing niche (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-scale marketing niche, which furnishes an enormous quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing one and the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offers on the whole web hosting marketplace furnish precisely the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting price tags are similar. Very much alike. Giving those who require a top web hosting service practically no other hosting platform/web hosting CP choice. Thus, there is simply a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mind that one...

200k "web hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed

The web hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google presents to us come down to just one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just a normal person who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web site creation procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domains and web pages. Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any website hosting alternative you can settle on? Sure there is, today there are more than 200k hosting service providers out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique web hosting brand names worldwide will offer you the very same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the diversity on the contemporary website hosting market is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple mathematics reveals that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a huge stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably covered most web hosting market demands. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Disadvantage No.1: A foolish domain folder system

If you have two or more domain names, though, be ultra attentive not to remove completely 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 simple to remove on the server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known 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 delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Observe for yourself how good cPanel's domain name folder configuration is:

Are you getting confused? We undoubtedly are!

Weak Side No.2: The very same mail folder setup

The email folder structure on the web server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys strongly strengthen their faith in God when managing the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to screw things up too harshly.

Weak Side Number 3: A sheer lack of domain manipulation tools

Do we have to point out the utter absence of a contemporary domain name administration menu - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, alter domains' Whois details, protect the Whois information, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a vast downside. An unforgivable one, we want to add...

Problem Number 4: Multiple login locations (min 2, maximum three)

What about the necessity for another login to make use of the billing transaction, domain name and tech support administration software? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web hosting corporation. Occasionally, depending on the invoice transaction tool (especially meant for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting distributor is availing of, the ardent users can wind up with 2 extra login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain name administration GUI; 2: the ticket support software solution), ending up with a total of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).

Predicament Number 5: More than 120 hosting Control Panel menus to get familiar with... quickly

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ sections inside the web hosting CP. It's a fantastic idea to grasp each one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them promptly... That's excessively 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? Note that one as well...