What is cPanel Web Hosting?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel hosting offers on the contemporary web hosting market are provided by a very unsubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to yearly cash flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small marketing niche, which furnishes a huge amount of different web hosting brands, yet providing the very same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offerings on the entire website hosting marketplace furnish the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting prices are alike. Very much alike. Giving those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is only one single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled

The hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us boil down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are just a normal guy who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web site creation processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domains and sites. Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any website hosting alternative you can select? Of course there is, now there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting distributors in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different website hosting brand names all over the world will give you literally the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the diversity on the present web hosting market is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple mathematics reveals that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a big stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably covered all website hosting business prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Problem No.1: An idiotic domain folder configuration

If you have two or more domains, however, be ultra watchful not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to delete on the hosting 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 is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Decide for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain folder arrangement is:

Are you growing baffled? We undeniably are!

Shortcoming No.2: The same mail folder setup

The e-mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly increase their belief in God when tackling the email folders on the email server, praying not to screw things up too badly.

Negative Side Number Three: An utter deficiency of domain name manipulation tools

Do we have to mention the thorough deficiency of a modern domain management interface - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domains' Whois info, protect the Whois info, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" menu at all. That's a vast weakness. An unforgettable one, we want to add...

Predicament No.4: Multiple login locations (minimum two, max 3)

How about the need for another login to make use of the billing, domain name and technical support management user interface? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based hosting firm. Now and then, on the basis of the invoicing tool (especially invented for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel hosting corporation is utilizing, the ardent customers can end up with 2 additional logins (1: the billing/domain management menu; 2: the ticket support software), ending up with a total of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Sign Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty hosting CP departments to pick up... quickly

cPanel presents to your attention 120+ areas inside the web hosting CP. It's a fine idea to get familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better pick them up briskly... That's very impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel hosting providers:

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