What Actually is cPanel Web Hosting?

For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel web hosting offerings on the current web hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite inconsiderable marketing segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-scale marketing niche, which provides a great quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet offering precisely the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the website hosting offerings on the entire website hosting marketplace offer exactly the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web hosting price tags are identical. Very identical. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/CP alternative. So, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200k web hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

200,000 "web hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded

The web hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google shows to us boil down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are merely an ordinary guy who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the website making procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domain names and web portals. Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web hosting variant you can pick? Sure there is, right now there are more than 200k website hosting companies in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ unique website hosting brands worldwide will offer you precisely the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, named in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the variety on the current web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all part of

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

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

Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps met all web hosting market preconditions. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weak Side Number 1: A moronic domain name folder configuration

If you have two or more domain names, though, be extra attentive not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to erase on the server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular 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 try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain name folder system is:

Are you becoming puzzled? We positively are!

Downside Number 2: The very same mail folder structure

The e-mail folder structure on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin chums firmly strengthen their belief in God when coping with the electronic mail folders on the mail server, praying not to botch things up too irreparably.

Problem Number Three: A total absence of domain administration tools

Do we have to cite the total lack of a contemporary domain administration user interface - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, modify domains' Whois information, secure the Whois information, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" section at all. That's a huge inconvenience. An unjustifiable one, we want to point out...

Disadvantage No.4: Multiple user login places (minimum 2, maximum three)

How about the necessity for an extra login to make use of the invoicing, domain name and tech support administration section? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web hosting service provider. Now and then, depending on the invoicing tool (principally invented for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting corporation is utilizing, the eager clients can wind up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoicing/domain name administration software; 2: the ticket support section), ending up with an aggregate of three user login locations (counting cPanel).

Weak Point No.5: More than 120 website hosting CP departments to become familiar with... rapidly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 menus inside the CP. It's a superb idea to become acquainted with each of them. And you'd better pick them up swiftly... That's excessively impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web hosting vendors:

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