What Precisely is cPanel Web Hosting?

For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel website hosting offers on the present web hosting market are generated by a quite insignificant marketing segment (when it comes to annual capital flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-sized marketing niche, which generates an enormous number of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing precisely 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 offerings on the whole web hosting market offer precisely the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel website hosting price tags are alike. Very much alike. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/web hosting CP choice. So, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200k hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, mind that one...

200k "website hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly branded

The website hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us come down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Assume you are merely an ordinary bloke who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web page creation processes and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domain names and websites. Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web hosting option you can decide upon? Of course there is, today there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting suppliers out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ different web hosting brands all over the world will give you absolutely the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the variety on the contemporary website hosting marketplace is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics shows that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a mammoth strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps answered most web hosting business preconditions. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Disadvantage Number One: A stupid domain folder structure

If you have two or more domain names, however, be very attentive not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to remove on the web server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous 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 remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. See for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain name folder configuration is:

Are you growing perplexed? We undoubtedly are!

Downside Number Two: The same mail folder configuration

The mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chaps firmly strengthen their belief in God when tackling the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to mess things up too severely.

Drawback Number 3: A complete lack of domain management tools

Do we need to mention the entire deficiency of a contemporary domain administration interface - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, change domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois details, change/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" interface at all. That's a considerable shortcoming. An unforgivable one, we want to add...

Negative Point Number 4: Multiple login locations (minimum 2, maximum three)

What about the need for another login to access the invoicing transaction, domain name and technical support management user interface? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel website hosting vendor. Now and then, on the basis of the invoicing transaction system (particularly built for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel website hosting distributor is making use of, the enthusiastic users can end up with 2 additional login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain administration platform; 2: the ticket support section), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Point No.5: More than 120 web hosting CP sections to get acquainted with... promptly

cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 menus inside the Control Panel. It's a fantastic idea to become familiar with each of them. And you'd better get familiar with them rapidly... That's inordinately impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting distributors:

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