What Actually is cPanel Web Hosting?

For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel web hosting offerings on the present-day web hosting market are supplied by a quite insignificant marketing segment (when it comes to annual money flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-size business segment, which provides an immense quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing the very same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offers on the entire web hosting marketplace offer absolutely the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting price tags are identical. Very similar. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...

200,000 "web hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet differently named

The web hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us come down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Imagine you are just an average guy who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web page development processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the various domain names and web sites. Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web hosting option you can settle on? Of course there is, at present there are more than 200,000 web hosting firms in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different web hosting brands in the world will give you the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the diversity on the contemporary hosting market is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple math reveals that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a gigantic stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly covered all web hosting business requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Drawback Number One: A laughable domain folder system

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be ultra watchful not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to remove on the web hosting server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Check for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain folder setup is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is situated)
public_html/my-family (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-domain.com (an add-on domain name)
public_html/my-second-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-wife.net (an add-on domain name)
public_html/my-third-domain.com (an add-on domain)
public_html/my-third-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-third-wife.net (an add-on domain name)
public_html/rebeka (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/rebeka.my-third-wife.net (a sub-domain of an add-on domain)

Are you growing bewildered? We clearly are!

Drawback Number 2: The very same mail folder arrangement

The mail folder configuration on the hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin guys firmly reinforce their belief in God when handling the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to muck things up too gravely.

Drawback No.3: An utter lack of domain management menus

Do we need to point out the absolute lack of a modern domain name management platform - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois details, change/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not contain such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's an immense predicament. An inexcusable one, we wish to point out...

Predicament Number Four: Many login locations (minimum 2, maximum 3)

How about the need for another login to make use of the invoice transaction, domain and technical support administration software? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web hosting vendor. Occasionally, on the basis of the invoicing tool (principally made for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting distributor is making use of, the devoted customers can end up with 2 extra logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration system; 2: the ticket support tool), ending up with a total of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).

Shortcoming No.5: More than a hundred and twenty Control Panel areas to get acquainted with... swiftly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a fabulous idea to memorize each of them. And you'd better memorize them quickly... That's very arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web hosting companies:

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