What is cPanel Website Hosting?

For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel website hosting offers on the current web hosting marketplace are provided by a very insignificant business niche (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-size marketing segment, which generates a vast amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing literally the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98% of the web hosting offers on the entire website hosting market provide strictly the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel website hosting price tags are similar. Quite identical. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is just one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

200k "website hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet differently named

The website hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us boil down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are just a regular chap who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web page making processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the different domain names and web pages. Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any website hosting option you can decide upon? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting vendors in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different website hosting brand names all over the world will give you literally the same cPanel CP and platform, labeled differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the diversity on the contemporary website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple arithmetic shows that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a huge stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably met most web hosting market preconditions. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Inconvenience Number 1: A laughable domain folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extra careful not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to erase on the hosting server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known 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 erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain folder structure is:

Are you getting confused? We clearly are!

Predicament Number Two: The very same email folder configuration

The electronic mail folder structure on the web hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chums strongly increase their faith in God when coping with the email folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to mess things up too irretrievably.

Shortcoming No.3: A sheer shortage of domain management interfaces

Do we need to point out the thorough absence of a contemporary domain name administration GUI - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois details, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not provide such a "modern" interface at all. That's a big predicament. An unjustifiable one, we want to add...

Shortcoming Number 4: Numerous user login locations (minimum two, max three)

What about the need for an extra login to utilize the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support management platform? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based website hosting supplier. Occasionally, depending on the invoicing transaction system (especially tailored for cPanel solely) the cPanel website hosting service provider is making use of, the eager customers can end up with 2 extra login locations (1: the billing/domain name administration platform; 2: the ticket support system), winding up with a total of 3 login places (including cPanel).

Weak Point Number 5: 120+ web hosting Control Panel departments to learn... swiftly

cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the hosting Control Panel. It's a superb idea to get acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better learn them quickly... That's extremely insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting companies:

As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one as well...