What In Fact is cPanel Web Hosting?

For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based Web Hosting offers on the present-day website hosting marketplace are furnished by a very inconsiderable business niche (when it comes to yearly money flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a kind of a small-size marketing segment, which generates an immense amount of different web hosting brand names, yet offering exactly the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offerings on the whole hosting marketplace offer the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based Web Hosting prices are similar. Quite identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other hosting platform/website hosting CP choice. Thus, there is only one fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, note that one...

200,000 "Web Hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed

The Web Hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google shows to us boil down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are only a normal person who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web page development processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domain names and online portals. Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any website hosting variant you can decide upon? Sure there is, at present there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting firms in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different website hosting brands in the world will offer you literally the same cPanel CP and platform, dubbed differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the assortment on the present hosting marketplace is... Period.

The Web Hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math demonstrates that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a huge stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel-based Web Hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably satisfied all website hosting market preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Aspect Number 1: A moronic domain folder structure

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extremely watchful 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 domain names are quite simple to delete on the web hosting server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain name folder system is:

Are you becoming puzzled? We unquestionably are!

Disadvantage Number 2: The same mail folder arrangement

The email folder structure on the server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin chaps strongly enhance their belief in God when tackling the e-mail folders on the email server, praying not to screw things up too gravely.

Downside Number Three: An absolute lack of domain name administration tools

Do we need to refer to the total absence of a modern domain management GUI - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois info, change/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a major predicament. An unforgettable one, we want to add...

Drawback No.4: Multiple user login locations (minimum 2, maximum three)

What about the demand for an extra login to use the billing transaction, domain name and tech support management interface? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based Web Hosting distributor. Occasionally, on the basis of the invoicing tool (especially conceived for cPanel only) the cPanel Web Hosting distributor is availing of, the devoted customers can end up with 2 additional login places (1: the invoicing/domain name administration software platform; 2: the trouble ticket support software solution), ending up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).

Downside No.5: 120+ website hosting Control Panel menus to get acquainted with... briskly

cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the website hosting CP. It's a marvelous idea to learn each one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them fast... That's extremely insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Web Hosting firms:

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