What Indeed is cPanel Web Hosting?

For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based website hosting offers on today's web hosting market are generated by a quite insignificant business niche (when it comes to yearly money flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-sized marketing niche, which supplies an immense number of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering absolutely the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offerings on the entire web hosting marketplace furnish one and the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting price tags are alike. Quite similar. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is simply one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, note that one...

200k "website hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed

The website hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us come down to just one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Assume you are just an average bloke who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the website development procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domain names and web pages. Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web hosting variant you can pick? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than 200,000 website hosting providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique website hosting brands worldwide will offer you the very same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the diversity on the present hosting market is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math demonstrates that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a gigantic strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly met most web hosting industry demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Aspect Number One: A foolish domain folder arrangement

If you have two or more domains, however, be extremely attentive 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 domain names are very easy to erase on the hosting server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Discover for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name folder configuration is:

Are you becoming confused? We categorically are!

Downside No.2: The same email folder structure

The electronic mail folder structure on the web hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The admin chaps firmly fortify their belief in God when managing the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to screw things up too harshly.

Negative Aspect Number 3: A thorough lack of domain name administration user interfaces

Do we have to cite the absolute shortage of a modern domain name management tool - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domain names' Whois details, protect the Whois information, edit/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "modern" tool at all. That's an enormous downside. An unforgivable one, we want to add...

Inconvenience Number 4: Numerous login locations (min 2, max 3)

How about the demand for another login to utilize the invoicing, domain and tech support administration GUI? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel website hosting service provider. Now and then, on the basis of the invoice transaction platform (especially designed for cPanel solely) the cPanel website hosting corporation is using, the earnest users can wind up with 2 additional login places (1: the billing transaction/domain management software solution; 2: the trouble ticket support software solution), winding up with an aggregate of three user login places (including cPanel).

Weak Side Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty website hosting Control Panel menus to get familiar with... promptly

cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the Control Panel. It's a fabulous idea to pick up each and every one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them fast... That's extremely impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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