What is cPanel Website Hosting?

For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based website hosting offerings on the contemporary web hosting marketplace are provided by a quite insubstantial business segment (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small business segment, which supplies a vast number of different web hosting brands, yet offering exactly the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98% of the website hosting offerings on the entire website hosting market supply the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel website hosting prices are similar. Very identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other hosting platform/web hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is simply one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...

200k "website hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled

The website hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us boil down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different hosting brand names. Assume you are simply an average person who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web site development procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and web portals. Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any website hosting variant you can select? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than 200k website hosting firms out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different web hosting brand names all over the world will offer you exactly the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the variety on the current hosting marketplace is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is an enormous stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly met all website hosting business demands. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weakness Number One: A dumb domain folder structure

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extra watchful not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to delete on the server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite 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 attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Check for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain name folder arrangement is:

Are you becoming confused? We undoubtedly are!

Negative Aspect Number 2: The very same email folder configuration

The e-mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Making the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chaps strongly enhance their faith in God when handling the mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to screw things up too fatally.

Drawback No.3: A complete lack of domain name administration tools

Do we need to refer to the total shortage of a contemporary domain name administration platform - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois information, change/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" section at all. That's a colossal downside. An unforgivable one, we want to add...

Downside No.4: Numerous login places (minimum 2, max three)

What about the necessity for another login to make use of the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support administration section? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel website hosting supplier. At times, based on the billing transaction platform (especially designed for cPanel solely) the cPanel website hosting service provider is availing of, the ardent customers can wind up with two extra login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name management menu; 2: the trouble ticket support interface), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login places (including cPanel).

Disadvantage Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel sections to grasp... fast

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ menus inside the web hosting CP. It's a terrific idea to get familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them briskly... That's excessively impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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