What Exactly is cPanel Web Hosting?

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based web hosting offerings on the contemporary web hosting marketplace are provided by a very insignificant marketing niche (when it comes to yearly cash flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small marketing niche, which provides a great number of different web hosting brand names, yet offering exactly the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offers on the whole web hosting marketplace offer one and the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting prices are identical. Quite identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/hosting CP choice. So, there is merely a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, note that one...

200,000 "web hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed

The web hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us boil down to just one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Imagine you are merely an average chap who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the website development procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domain names and websites. Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any website hosting alternative you can decide upon? Sure there is, right now there are more than 200k website hosting service providers out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ unique web hosting brands around the world will give you the very same cPanel hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the variety on the present-day web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple mathematics shows that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a mammoth stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably fulfilled all web hosting market prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Downside Number 1: A foolish domain folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extremely cautious not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to delete on the web server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known 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 try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Check for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain name folder structure is:

Are you becoming confused? We undeniably are!

Negative Point Number Two: The same e-mail folder arrangement

The e-mail folder structure on the web server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly strengthen their faith in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to screw things up too irreparably.

Weak Point Number 3: An utter deficiency of domain administration interfaces

Do we need to bring up the thorough absence of a modern domain name management interface - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domains' Whois info, shield the Whois info, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a huge drawback. An unforgivable one, we would like to add...

Shortcoming No.4: Multiple user login locations (min two, maximum 3)

How about the need for another login to utilize the invoicing, domain name and tech support management interface? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web hosting distributor. Occasionally, depending on the invoice transaction platform (principally conceived for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting firm is availing of, the devoted customers can end up with two extra logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain administration menu; 2: the ticket support platform), winding up with a total of 3 login places (counting cPanel).

Predicament Number Five: More than 120 web hosting Control Panel departments to pick up... promptly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a superb idea to grasp each of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them quickly... That's inordinately arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web hosting providers:

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