What Exactly is cPanel Website Hosting?

For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based Website Hosting offerings on today's web hosting market are provided by a quite insignificant business segment (when it comes to yearly cash flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small marketing segment, which generates a big number of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing strictly the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the hosting offers on the whole web hosting market offer absolutely the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based Website Hosting prices are identical. Very much alike. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/CP alternative. Thus, there is just one fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...

200,000 "Website Hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded

The Website Hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us come down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are merely a regular fellow who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the site creation procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domain names and web portals. Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any web hosting variant you can decide upon? Sure there is, now there are more than 200,000 web hosting service providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different web hosting brand names across the world will offer you exactly the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the assortment on the present web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The Website Hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a colossal strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel-based Website Hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably met most web hosting market requirements. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Point Number 1: A dumb domain folder system

If you have two or more domain names, though, be extremely watchful not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to remove on the web hosting 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 is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain folder structure is:

Are you becoming perplexed? We undoubtedly are!

Drawback Number 2: The very same electronic mail folder setup

The electronic mail folder structure on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin guys firmly strengthen their faith in God when handling the mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to screw things up too harshly.

Downside Number Three: A complete shortage of domain manipulation tools

Do we have to bring up the utter deficiency of a contemporary domain name administration platform - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois information, edit/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" tool at all. That's a colossal problem. An unforgettable one, we would like to add...

Inconvenience No.4: Multiple user login locations (min two, maximum 3)

How about the demand for an additional login to utilize the billing, domain name and tech support administration system? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based Website Hosting supplier. Sometimes, depending on the billing transaction tool (principally designed for cPanel solely) the cPanel Website Hosting corporation is utilizing, the earnest users can end up with 2 additional login places (1: the invoicing/domain administration section; 2: the trouble ticket support user interface), ending up with a total of three user login places (counting cPanel).

Weak Point No.5: 120+ hosting CP areas to get acquainted with... briskly

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ menus inside the web hosting CP. It's a wonderful idea to memorize each of them. And you'd better memorize them swiftly... That's extremely insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Website Hosting distributors:

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