What is cPanel Website Hosting?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel Website Hosting offers on the current web hosting market are furnished by a very insubstantial business niche (as far as annual money flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a type of a small-scale business niche, which generates a vast amount of different web hosting brand names, yet providing the very same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the website hosting offers on the entire web hosting market provide strictly the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based Website Hosting price tags are similar. Very identical. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is simply one single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "Website Hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled

The Website Hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us come down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are merely an ordinary guy who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the site development processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domain names and sites. Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any web hosting alternative you can decide upon? Sure there is, now there are more than 200,000 hosting corporations 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 brand names across the world will offer you literally the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the diversity on today's web hosting market is... Full stop.

The Website Hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic shows that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a great stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

The pros and cons of the cPanel-based Website Hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps covered all hosting market prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Disadvantage Number One: A stupid domain folder configuration

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 call each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to remove on the server, since they all are created 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 placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain folder structure is:

Are you growing nonplussed? We surely are!

Problem Number Two: The same e-mail folder arrangement

The electronic mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys firmly reinforce their belief in God when dealing with the mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to muck things up too fatally.

Negative Side Number 3: A total lack of domain name administration GUIs

Do we need to mention the total shortage of a contemporary domain administration menu - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domains' Whois info, shield the Whois info, alter/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" section at all. That's an enormous inconvenience. An inexcusable one, we would like to point out...

Inconvenience No.4: Many user login locations (min 2, max 3)

How about the need for an extra login to make use of the invoice transaction, domain name and tech support management section? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel Website Hosting corporation. Now and then, depending on the invoice transaction system (principally developed for cPanel only) the cPanel Website Hosting distributor is availing of, the zealous clients can end up with 2 additional login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain name administration system; 2: the ticket support GUI), winding up with a total of three login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Side Number Five: 120+ website hosting CP departments to memorize... quickly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the website hosting CP. It's a terrific idea to get familiar with each one of them. And you'd better get to know them rapidly... That's inordinately arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Website Hosting vendors:

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