What Actually is cPanel Web Hosting?

For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based website hosting offerings on the contemporary website hosting market are furnished by a quite unsubstantial marketing niche (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-size marketing niche, which generates an immense quantity of different web hosting brands, yet offering exactly the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offerings on the entire hosting market provide absolutely the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting price tags are similar. Very similar. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is just one fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "website hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed

The website hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google shows to us boil down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are simply a regular guy who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the web page development processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the different domain names and websites. Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any hosting variant you can settle on? Sure there is, right now there are more than 200k website hosting service providers out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique website hosting brands across the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, named in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the variety on the current hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting company is an enormous strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably met all website hosting industry preconditions. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Shortcoming No.1: A stupid domain folder structure

If you have two or more domains, however, be extra 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). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to remove on the web server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated 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. Observe for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain name folder setup is:

Are you growing confused? We clearly are!

Shortcoming Number 2: The same email folder configuration

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the web server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin boys strongly increase their faith in God when tackling the electronic mail folders on the email server, praying not to muck things up too fatally.

Downside Number Three: A complete lack of domain name administration GUIs

Do we need to bring up the total deficiency of a contemporary domain name management GUI - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, alter domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois info, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a vast disadvantage. An inexcusable one, we wish to add...

Problem Number 4: Numerous login places (min two, max three)

What about the demand for an additional login to avail of the invoicing transaction, domain name and technical support administration interface? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based website hosting provider. Now and then, depending on the invoice transaction system (especially intended for cPanel only) the cPanel website hosting provider is making use of, the zealous users can wind up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name management software solution; 2: the ticket support platform), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).

Shortcoming Number 5: 120+ hosting Control Panel menus to become acquainted with... rapidly

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ departments inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a great idea to memorize each and every one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them promptly... That's way too impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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