What Indeed is cPanel Website Hosting?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel Website Hosting offerings on the present hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite insubstantial business segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-size marketing niche, which supplies a great amount of different web hosting brands, yet supplying literally the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the web hosting offerings on the whole website hosting market supply precisely the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based Website Hosting prices are identical. Very much alike. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/website hosting CP choice. So, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200k website hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "Website Hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled

The Website Hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us come down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are simply a regular fellow who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web site making procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and web sites. Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any website hosting option you can pick? Sure there is, at present there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting companies in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ different web hosting brand names across the world will give you strictly the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the variety on the contemporary web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The Website Hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple math shows that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a mammoth strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel Website Hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably fulfilled all web hosting industry requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Inconvenience Number 1: A laughable domain name folder structure

If you have two or more domains, though, be ultra cautious not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new 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 remove on the hosting server, since they all are set up 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 situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Observe for yourself how great cPanel's domain name folder system is:

Are you getting bewildered? We undeniably are!

Problem No.2: The same mail folder system

The email folder arrangement on the server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin blokes strongly strengthen their faith in God when tackling the mail folders on the email server, praying not to screw things up too irretrievably.

Predicament Number 3: A thorough lack of domain administration options

Do we need to mention the sheer deficiency of a contemporary domain manipulation user interface - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domains' Whois info, protect the Whois information, modify/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" interface at all. That's a great drawback. An unforgettable one, we want to point out...

Shortcoming Number 4: Multiple login places (minimum two, maximum three)

How about the necessity for an extra login to access the invoicing, domain and technical support administration software? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based Website Hosting firm. Sometimes, on the basis of the invoicing system (especially developed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel Website Hosting provider is using, the ardent clients can end up with two additional logins (1: the billing/domain name administration software platform; 2: the ticket support tool), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).

Predicament Number Five: 120+ web hosting Control Panel sections to learn... quickly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a superb idea to get familiar with each one of them. And you'd better memorize them fast... That's extremely insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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