What Exactly is cPanel Web Hosting?

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based Web Hosting offerings on the present website hosting market are generated by a quite unsubstantial marketing segment (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-scale business segment, which generates a huge number of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing exactly the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offers on the whole website hosting market supply one and the very same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based Web Hosting price tags are alike. Very similar. Giving those who require a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/website hosting CP choice. So, there is simply a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mark that one...

200,000 "Web Hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named

The Web Hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us boil down to just one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different hosting trademarked names. Assume you are simply an average person who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the site creation procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and web pages. Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any hosting variant you can opt for? Sure there is, right now there are more than 200k web hosting suppliers in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand different web hosting brands across the world will give you absolutely the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the diversity on the current web hosting market is... Period.

The Web Hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math demonstrates that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is an enormous stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel Web Hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps answered most website hosting industry prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Sign Number One: A moronic domain folder configuration

If you have two or more domain names, though, be extra watchful not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to erase on the web server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite 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. See for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain name folder configuration is:

Are you growing disorientated? We doubtlessly are!

Inconvenience Number Two: The very same mail folder setup

The e-mail folder structure on the web server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The admin guys firmly enhance their faith in God when handling the mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to screw things up too severely.

Inconvenience No.3: A sheer lack of domain manipulation GUIs

Do we have to refer to the utter deficiency of a contemporary domain manipulation platform - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, modify domains' Whois information, secure the Whois info, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not have such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a colossal downside. An unforgettable one, we want to point out...

Negative Aspect Number Four: Multiple login places (min 2, max 3)

How about the need for another login to access the billing, domain name and technical support management software solution? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based Web Hosting supplier. Occasionally, based on the invoicing platform (principally invented for cPanel solely) the cPanel Web Hosting distributor is availing of, the ardent users can wind up with two additional login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain name administration GUI; 2: the trouble ticket support software platform), ending up with a total of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).

Shortcoming Number 5: More than 120 CP menus to get to know... promptly

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

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Web Hosting corporations:

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