What Indeed is cPanel Web Hosting?

For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based Web Hosting offers on the present website hosting marketplace are supplied by a very unsubstantial marketing niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-scale marketing niche, which generates a big number of different web hosting brands, yet providing strictly the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offerings on the entire hosting marketplace offer exactly the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel Web Hosting price tags are similar. Very similar. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200k website hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...

Two hundred thousand "Web Hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled

The Web Hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us come down to just one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Assume you are merely a regular bloke who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the website development processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and sites. Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web hosting option you can pick? Of course there is, at present there are more than 200k web hosting corporations in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ different website hosting brand names across the world will offer you absolutely the same cPanel CP and platform, named in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the assortment on the present hosting market is... Period.

The Web Hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a gigantic stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel Web Hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably met most web hosting industry prerequisites. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Problem Number One: A foolish domain name folder system

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be ultra attentive not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to delete on the hosting server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located 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. Observe for yourself how great cPanel's domain name folder arrangement is:

Are you getting perplexed? We clearly are!

Negative Side Number 2: The very same electronic mail folder arrangement

The e-mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys strongly enhance their faith in God when coping with the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to mess things up too irretrievably.

Negative Side Number Three: A thorough shortage of domain name management user interfaces

Do we need to cite the sheer shortage of a modern domain name manipulation user interface - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domains' Whois details, protect the Whois information, change/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a vast predicament. An unjustifiable one, we want to add...

Weakness Number Four: Many user login places (minimum 2, max three)

What about the demand for an additional login to use the billing transaction, domain and technical support administration user interface? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel Web Hosting vendor. Sometimes, based on the invoicing transaction system (principally conceived for cPanel solely) the cPanel Web Hosting service provider is using, the ardent customers can wind up with two extra login locations (1: the invoicing/domain name management platform; 2: the trouble ticket support platform), winding up with a total of three user login locations (counting cPanel).

Downside Number Five: More than 120 website hosting Control Panel departments to learn... swiftly

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 areas inside the Control Panel. It's a marvelous idea to become familiar with each one of them. And you'd better memorize them promptly... That's way too impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Web Hosting providers:

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