What is cPanel Web Hosting?

For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based hosting offers on today's web hosting market are supplied by a very inconsiderable business niche (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-sized business segment, which generates a great quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet providing exactly the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offers on the whole website hosting market provide the very same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting prices are similar. Very similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/web hosting CP alternative. So, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, mark that one...

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

The hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offers" Google shows to us come down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different hosting trademarked names. Assume you are simply a regular bloke who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web page creation processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domain names and online portals. Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any website hosting alternative you can pick? Of course there is, as of now there are more than 200,000 web hosting firms out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different web hosting brand names across the world will offer you literally the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the diversity on the present website hosting market is... Period.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a colossal strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably fulfilled all web hosting business prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Side No.1: A foolish domain folder arrangement

If you have two or more domains, though, be very watchful not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to remove on the hosting server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. See for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name folder configuration is:

Are you growing bewildered? We positively are!

Drawback Number 2: The same electronic mail folder arrangement

The electronic mail folder structure on the web server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly increase their faith in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to botch things up too badly.

Negative Aspect Number Three: A total deficiency of domain administration menus

Do we need to point out the total deficiency of a modern domain management tool - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, alter domains' Whois info, protect the Whois info, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not involve such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a mammoth problem. An unforgettable one, we would like to add...

Negative Sign No.4: Multiple login locations (min two, maximum 3)

What about the need for an additional login to use the invoice transaction, domain name and technical support administration section? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel hosting corporation. At times, on the basis of the invoice transaction tool (especially conceived for cPanel solely) the cPanel hosting company is making use of, the avid users can end up with two extra login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration user interface; 2: the ticket support software), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Sign Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty Control Panel menus to grasp... swiftly

cPanel offers to your attention 120+ areas inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a remarkable idea to become acquainted with 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 hosting service providers:

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