What is cPanel Website Hosting?

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel website hosting offers on the current web hosting market are supplied by a very insubstantial business niche (when it comes to annual money flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small business segment, which supplies a big quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying exactly the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offers on the entire web hosting marketplace furnish absolutely the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel website hosting price tags are identical. Very similar. Giving those who need a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/web hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is simply one single fact: out of more than 200k website hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mark that one...

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

The website hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google reveals to us come down to just one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are merely an ordinary chap who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the web site making processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and web portals. Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any website hosting variant you can settle on? Of course there is, today there are more than 200,000 web hosting suppliers in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different hosting brand names worldwide will offer you absolutely the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the diversity on the contemporary web hosting market is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a mammoth stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

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

Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps answered all website hosting market requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Side No.1: A laughable domain folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extremely attentive not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to erase on the web server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular 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 try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain name folder structure is:

Are you getting disorientated? We categorically are!

Negative Aspect No.2: The same e-mail folder configuration

The electronic mail folder configuration on the web server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin blokes firmly reinforce their faith in God when managing the email folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too irreparably.

Inconvenience No.3: An absolute lack of domain name manipulation interfaces

Do we need to bring up the thorough lack of a contemporary domain administration platform - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, alter domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois details, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a vast predicament. An unjustifiable one, we would like to point out...

Inconvenience Number Four: Numerous login places (minimum 2, max three)

How about the need for another login to use the invoice transaction, domain name and tech support management tool? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based website hosting supplier. At times, depending on the billing transaction system (principally conceived for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel website hosting company is making use of, the zealous clients can end up with two additional login locations (1: the invoicing/domain management GUI; 2: the trouble ticket support section), winding up with an aggregate of three user login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Aspect Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty website hosting Control Panel menus to memorize... promptly

cPanel presents to your attention 120+ areas inside the website hosting CP. It's a superb idea to become acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better grasp them fast... That's inordinately arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based website hosting suppliers:

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