What is cPanel Website Hosting?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based website hosting offerings on the present-day web hosting market are generated by a quite inconsiderable marketing niche (when it comes to yearly cash flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small marketing segment, which supplies an enormous amount of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing absolutely the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offers on the entire web hosting marketplace furnish precisely the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting prices are identical. Very identical. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/web hosting CP option. Thus, there is merely a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...

200,000 "website hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded

The website hosting "diversity" and the web 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 brand names. Suppose you are simply a regular person who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the site making processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and web pages. Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any web hosting variant you can pick? Sure there is, today there are more than 200k website hosting suppliers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different web hosting brands around the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the diversity on the present-day web hosting market is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple arithmetic shows that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a great stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly answered all web hosting market demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weakness No.1: A stupid domain name folder system

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be ultra attentive 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 very easy to erase on the server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain name folder arrangement is:

Are you getting confused? We undoubtedly are!

Problem Number Two: The very same e-mail folder configuration

The e-mail folder configuration on the web server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin chums firmly increase their faith in God when managing the email folders on the mail server, praying not to muck things up too fatally.

Drawback Number Three: An entire lack of domain manipulation options

Do we have to bring up the total lack of a modern domain name manipulation tool - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domain names, change domains' Whois info, protect the Whois details, change/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "modern" menu at all. That's a considerable drawback. An unforgettable one, we would like to add...

Predicament No.4: Many user login places (min 2, max 3)

How about the demand for another login to make use of the invoicing, domain name and technical support administration user interface? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based website hosting firm. Now and then, based on the billing system (especially intended for cPanel only) the cPanel website hosting vendor is making use of, the devoted users can wind up with two additional login locations (1: the invoicing/domain management interface; 2: the ticket support platform), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (including cPanel).

Weakness Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty hosting CP menus to get acquainted with... quickly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the hosting Control Panel. It's a wonderful idea to become acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better memorize them quickly... That's very arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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