What is cPanel Website Hosting?

For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based website hosting offerings on the present website hosting marketplace are provided by a very insubstantial business segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small business segment, which supplies an immense number of different web hosting brand names, yet providing precisely the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offerings on the whole web hosting marketplace offer the very same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel website hosting price tags are identical. Very much alike. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/web hosting CP option. So, there is only one fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...

200k "website hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded

The website hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google shows to us boil down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just a regular person who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the website development processes and the hosting platforms, which actually power the different domains and websites. Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any hosting alternative you can decide upon? Of course there is, these days there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting service providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique website hosting brand names all over the world will give you exactly the same cPanel Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the diversity on the current website hosting marketplace is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple math reveals that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a great stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The pros and cons of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly answered all hosting industry demands. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weak Side No.1: A ludicrous domain name folder setup

If you have two or more domain names, however, be extremely careful not to delete 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 simple to remove on the web server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular 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 attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain name folder system is:

Are you getting baffled? We certainly are!

Drawback Number Two: The same electronic mail folder setup

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes strongly enhance their faith in God when tackling the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to muck things up too irreparably.

Negative Side Number 3: An utter deficiency of domain manipulation GUIs

Do we need to refer to the total absence of a modern domain name management menu - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domains' Whois details, shield the Whois details, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a big predicament. An unjustifiable one, we would like to point out...

Negative Sign Number 4: Multiple login places (minimum 2, maximum 3)

How about the demand for another login to utilize the billing, domain and tech support management software? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based website hosting provider. Occasionally, based on the billing transaction tool (particularly built for cPanel solely) the cPanel website hosting vendor is using, the zealous clients can wind up with 2 additional login locations (1: the invoicing/domain administration system; 2: the ticket support section), ending up with a total of three login locations (counting cPanel).

Negative Point Number 5: 120+ web hosting Control Panel areas to get to know... swiftly

cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a great idea to grasp each one of them. And you'd better get to know them swiftly... That's inordinately arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting distributors:

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