What is cPanel Web Hosting?

For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based hosting offers on the present-day hosting market are provided by a very inconsiderable marketing segment (when it comes to annual cash flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-size marketing niche, which generates a big amount of different web hosting brands, yet providing absolutely the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offers on the entire website hosting marketplace furnish the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel hosting price tags are similar. Quite similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/CP choice. So, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200k website hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

200k "hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled

The hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google presents to us come down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are simply a normal person who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the website development processes and the hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domain names and web portals. Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any web hosting variant you can decide upon? Sure there is, today there are more than 200k web hosting suppliers out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ unique website hosting brand names around the world will give you exactly the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the assortment on the contemporary website hosting marketplace is... Period.

The hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple math demonstrates that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a gigantic stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably covered all web hosting market prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Sign Number 1: A ludicrous domain name folder configuration

If you have two or more domains, though, be extra cautious not to erase 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 domains are very simple to delete on the server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite 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 remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine for yourself how good cPanel's domain folder structure is:

Are you becoming perplexed? We undeniably are!

Weakness Number Two: The very same mail folder arrangement

The e-mail folder structure on the hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys firmly reinforce their belief in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to screw things up too irretrievably.

Shortcoming Number 3: A sheer deficiency of domain administration user interfaces

Do we have to bring up the total lack of a modern domain name manipulation interface - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, edit domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois info, change/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not contain such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a colossal downside. An unpardonable one, we wish to add...

Weak Side Number 4: Multiple user login locations (minimum 2, maximum 3)

What about the need for an extra login to use the invoicing, domain and tech support administration user interface? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel hosting firm. Now and then, on the basis of the invoice transaction system (particularly invented for cPanel solely) the cPanel hosting company is making use of, the ardent clients can wind up with two extra login locations (1: the invoicing/domain name administration menu; 2: the trouble ticket support GUI), ending up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (including cPanel).

Problem No.5: More than 120 Control Panel sections to get to know... rapidly

cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a superb idea to become familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better grasp them quickly... That's excessively impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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