What Precisely is cPanel Web Hosting?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based Web Hosting offers on the present web hosting market are furnished by a very insubstantial marketing segment (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-scale marketing segment, which furnishes a great amount of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing absolutely the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offers on the whole hosting marketplace offer one and the very same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel Web Hosting price tags are alike. Quite identical. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/web hosting CP alternative. So, there is only one fact: out of more than 200k website hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "Web Hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed

The Web Hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offers" Google presents to us come down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different hosting brand names. Imagine you are just a normal person who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the web page creation processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the various domains and online portals. Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any website hosting variant you can decide upon? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting corporations out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different web hosting brand names all over the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the variety on the present hosting market is... Period.

The Web Hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

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

The pros and cons of the cPanel-based Web Hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably fulfilled most website hosting business prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Shortcoming Number 1: A laughable domain folder setup

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extremely cautious not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to remove on the hosting server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain name folder configuration is:

Are you becoming bewildered? We certainly are!

Negative Side No.2: The very same mail folder system

The email folder configuration on the web server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin boys firmly reinforce their faith in God when tackling the mail folders on the email server, praying not to screw things up too irreparably.

Negative Side Number 3: An absolute shortage of domain name administration user interfaces

Do we have to point out the total deficiency of a modern domain manipulation platform - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domain names' Whois information, protect the Whois info, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's an enormous drawback. An unforgivable one, we would like to point out...

Negative Point Number 4: Many login places (min 2, max 3)

What about the demand for an extra login to access the invoice transaction, domain name and technical support management GUI? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based Web Hosting supplier. At times, depending on the billing transaction platform (especially invented for cPanel only) the cPanel Web Hosting service provider is using, the devoted users can wind up with 2 extra login places (1: the billing transaction/domain administration system; 2: the ticket support software), ending up with a total of three user login places (counting cPanel).

Weak Point Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty website hosting Control Panel menus to learn... quickly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 areas inside the web hosting CP. It's a wonderful idea to pick up each one of them. And you'd better memorize them briskly... That's quite impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Web Hosting firms:

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