What Exactly is cPanel Website Hosting?

For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel website hosting offers on the contemporary website hosting market are furnished by a very inconsiderable marketing segment (when it comes to annual capital flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-scale business niche, which generates a huge amount of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing precisely the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the hosting offers on the entire web hosting market offer exactly the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting prices are identical. Very identical. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/CP option. So, there is just a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

200k "website hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely named

The website hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google shows to us boil down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Assume you are merely a normal person who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the website making processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the various domains and sites. Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any web hosting alternative you can pick? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting corporations out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand different website hosting brands worldwide will offer you literally the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, named differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the diversity on the contemporary web hosting market is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple arithmetic reveals that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a mammoth stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps fulfilled all web hosting industry demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Point Number One: A dumb domain folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extremely careful not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to remove on the web hosting server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Check for yourself how good cPanel's domain name folder system is:

Are you growing baffled? We doubtlessly are!

Downside Number Two: The same electronic mail folder configuration

The electronic mail folder configuration on the hosting server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly strengthen their faith in God when coping with the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to screw things up too gravely.

Negative Point No.3: An absolute deficiency of domain management menus

Do we have to bring up the sheer shortage of a modern domain management tool - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, modify domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois details, change/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not contain such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's an enormous downside. An inexcusable one, we wish to add...

Disadvantage Number Four: Many user login locations (minimum 2, max 3)

What about the demand for another login to utilize the invoicing, domain and tech support management section? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel website hosting company. Now and then, depending on the invoicing tool (principally meant for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel website hosting distributor is utilizing, the keen users can wind up with two extra logins (1: the billing transaction/domain name administration software; 2: the trouble ticket support tool), ending up with an aggregate of three user login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Side Number Five: More than 120 website hosting CP departments to learn... rapidly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 departments inside the website hosting CP. It's a remarkable idea to get acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better learn them quickly... That's excessively insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting service providers:

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