What Exactly is cPanel Web Hosting?

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based hosting offerings on the present-day web hosting market are generated by a quite unsubstantial marketing niche (when it comes to annual cash flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-sized marketing segment, which supplies a vast amount of different web hosting brands, yet providing precisely the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98% of the website hosting offerings on the whole hosting marketplace supply precisely the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel hosting prices are alike. Quite identical. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/hosting CP option. So, there is merely one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, note that one...

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

The hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us boil down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different hosting trademarked names. Assume you are only an average fellow who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web site development processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the different domain names and web sites. Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any hosting option you can choose? Sure there is, right now there are more than 200k hosting companies out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different web hosting brand names in the world will give you literally the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the assortment on the contemporary website hosting market is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a big strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably fulfilled most website hosting industry prerequisites. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Point Number One: An idiotic domain folder setup

If you have two or more domains, however, be extremely watchful not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub 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 very easy to erase on the web server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain name folder configuration is:

Are you becoming puzzled? We undoubtedly are!

Inconvenience Number 2: The very same mail folder setup

The email folder configuration on the hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin blokes firmly fortify their belief in God when coping with the mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to muck things up too harshly.

Negative Point No.3: An absolute deficiency of domain name management interfaces

Do we need to mention the sheer shortage of a modern domain name management menu - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, change domains' Whois info, secure the Whois info, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not contain such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a great shortcoming. An inexcusable one, we would like to point out...

Shortcoming Number 4: Many user login places (minimum 2, maximum 3)

How about the demand for another login to utilize the invoice transaction, domain and tech support administration software platform? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel hosting supplier. Occasionally, on the basis of the invoicing transaction platform (particularly devised for cPanel only) the cPanel hosting service provider is availing of, the keen users can end up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration system; 2: the ticket support menu), winding up with an aggregate of three user login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Point No.5: 120+ web hosting Control Panel departments to get familiar with... promptly

cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the web hosting CP. It's a superb idea to get familiar with each one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them promptly... That's quite impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based hosting corporations:

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