What is cPanel Web Hosting?

For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel web hosting offers on the present web hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite insignificant business segment (when it comes to yearly cash flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small business segment, which furnishes a vast number of different web hosting brands, yet providing strictly the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offerings on the entire website hosting marketplace furnish strictly the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web hosting prices are identical. Very much alike. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200k hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, note that one...

200k "web hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded

The web hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us come down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are just a regular bloke who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the site development procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the various domain names and web portals. Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any website hosting variant you can opt for? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting service providers out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique web hosting brand names around the world will give you the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the variety on today's hosting market is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a mammoth strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will occur! Less than one in 50...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably satisfied most web hosting industry prerequisites. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Downside Number One: A foolish domain folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extremely careful not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next 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 very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Observe for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain folder setup is:

Are you becoming confused? We doubtlessly are!

Negative Aspect No.2: The very same electronic mail folder setup

The email folder structure on the server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chaps strongly strengthen their faith in God when coping with the email folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to screw things up too badly.

Negative Point Number 3: A complete shortage of domain name management user interfaces

Do we have to refer to the utter shortage of a contemporary domain name administration user interface - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, change domains' Whois details, secure the Whois details, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a big problem. An inexcusable one, we want to add...

Weak Side Number 4: Numerous login places (minimum two, max 3)

How about the demand for an extra login to access the billing, domain and technical support management interface? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web hosting vendor. At times, depending on the invoicing platform (especially built for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting provider is using, the earnest clients can wind up with 2 additional login places (1: the billing transaction/domain administration software solution; 2: the ticket support tool), winding up with a total of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).

Predicament No.5: 120+ website hosting CP departments to get familiar with... fast

cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 menus inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a fantastic idea to get familiar with each one of them. And you'd better pick them up quickly... That's very impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web hosting suppliers:

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