What is cPanel Website Hosting?

For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based hosting offerings on the present website hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite unsubstantial business segment (when it comes to annual capital flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-sized marketing segment, which furnishes a huge quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet providing exactly the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offers on the entire web hosting market supply literally the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting prices are similar. Very identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/CP option. So, there is only one single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed

The hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us boil down to just one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are simply an ordinary guy who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the site creation processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and online portals. Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any website hosting variant you can decide upon? Of course there is, as of now there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting distributors out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ unique hosting brands all over the world will offer you absolutely the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the variety on today's web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic shows that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a great stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably met all web hosting industry preconditions. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Predicament Number 1: A laughable domain name folder setup

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be very cautious not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to erase on the web hosting server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular 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 try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain folder configuration is:

Are you growing puzzled? We unquestionably are!

Drawback Number Two: The same electronic mail folder configuration

The mail folder structure on the server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin guys firmly reinforce their belief in God when dealing with the electronic mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to botch things up too badly.

Weak Side No.3: An entire absence of domain name administration GUIs

Do we have to point out the sheer deficiency of a modern domain name administration platform - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, alter domains' Whois details, shield the Whois details, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not supply such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a considerable predicament. An unforgettable one, we would like to add...

Negative Side Number 4: Many user login locations (minimum 2, maximum 3)

What about the need for an extra login to utilize the billing transaction, domain and tech support administration user interface? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based hosting service provider. Sometimes, based on the invoice transaction platform (principally devised for cPanel solely) the cPanel hosting supplier is making use of, the keen users can wind up with 2 extra login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain name administration software platform; 2: the ticket support menu), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).

Weakness No.5: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting CP sections to grasp... rapidly

cPanel presents for your consideration 120+ departments inside the hosting Control Panel. It's a terrific idea to grasp each and every one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them quickly... That's way too insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel hosting vendors:

As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one as well...