What is cPanel Website Hosting?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based web hosting offers on the present web hosting market are generated by a very unsubstantial marketing segment (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a sort of a small business niche, which furnishes a huge amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering precisely the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the hosting offerings on the whole web hosting marketplace provide the very same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web hosting price tags are identical. Very identical. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

200k "web hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed

The web hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us boil down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Assume you are merely an average person who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the website development procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the various domain names and web sites. Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any website hosting option you can choose? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than 200k website hosting suppliers out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique hosting brands around the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the diversity on the contemporary web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math reveals that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a great stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps fulfilled all hosting business demands. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Sign Number One: A dumb domain folder system

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be very attentive not to delete completely 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 easy to erase on the web server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, 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 delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain name folder configuration is:

Are you getting confused? We doubtlessly are!

Predicament Number Two: The same electronic mail folder setup

The email folder configuration on the web server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin guys strongly increase their belief in God when handling the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to mess things up too harshly.

Negative Point Number Three: An utter absence of domain name administration user interfaces

Do we need to point out the entire deficiency of a modern domain name management platform - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, edit domain names' Whois information, protect the Whois information, edit/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not contain such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a considerable problem. An unforgivable one, we would like to point out...

Disadvantage Number Four: Many login locations (min two, max 3)

How about the demand for an additional login to use the billing, domain name and tech support administration software? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web hosting service provider. Occasionally, based on the billing transaction tool (particularly made for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting company is using, the enthusiastic customers can end up with two additional login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain name administration section; 2: the ticket support user interface), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).

Problem Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty website hosting CP departments to get acquainted with... swiftly

cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the web hosting CP. It's a marvelous idea to become acquainted with each of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them briskly... That's excessively insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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