What Indeed is cPanel Web Hosting?

For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel web hosting offerings on the contemporary website hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite inconsiderable business segment (when it comes to yearly money flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-size business niche, which provides a great amount of different web hosting brands, yet providing exactly the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offerings on the entire web hosting marketplace supply the very same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web hosting prices are identical. Very identical. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is only one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

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

The web hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us come down to just one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Suppose you are merely a regular guy who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web page creation processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the various domain names and web portals. Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any web hosting variant you can settle on? Sure there is, as of now there are more than 200k website hosting providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique web hosting brands across the world will give you the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the diversity on the contemporary web hosting market is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic shows that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a huge stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly fulfilled all web hosting business preconditions. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Sign No.1: A dumb domain name folder setup

If you have two or more domains, however, be extra attentive not to remove completely 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 very easy to remove on the server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located 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. Examine for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain name folder configuration is:

Are you getting puzzled? We undeniably are!

Negative Sign Number Two: The same e-mail folder structure

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin guys firmly increase their faith in God when tackling the mail folders on the email server, praying not to mess things up too fatally.

Negative Point Number 3: An entire absence of domain administration menus

Do we need to point out the utter shortage of a contemporary domain manipulation tool - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, alter domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois details, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's an immense problem. An unpardonable one, we wish to point out...

Weak Side Number Four: Many user login locations (minimum two, max 3)

What about the necessity for an extra login to utilize the billing transaction, domain and technical support administration menu? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web hosting vendor. Now and then, depending on the invoicing tool (especially tailored for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting service provider is making use of, the eager clients can wind up with two additional login places (1: the billing/domain name management GUI; 2: the trouble ticket support system), winding up with a total of 3 user login places (including cPanel).

Drawback Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting CP areas to get to know... fast

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 departments inside the website hosting CP. It's a glorious idea to grasp each of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them briskly... That's inordinately impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web hosting firms:

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