What is cPanel Website Hosting?

For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel web hosting offers on the present-day web hosting marketplace are provided by a quite insubstantial marketing segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-size business niche, which generates an immense number of different web hosting brands, yet offering one and the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the hosting offers on the whole website hosting market supply the very same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web hosting prices are identical. Very similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other hosting platform/website hosting CP alternative. So, there is merely a single 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 2%, mark that one...

200k "web hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly branded

The web hosting "variety" and the hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us come down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just a normal person who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web site creation procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domain names and web pages. Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any website hosting option you can settle on? Sure there is, these days there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting vendors out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique hosting brands all over the world will give you exactly the same cPanel hosting CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the assortment on today's website hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a big stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably met most website hosting market preconditions. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Downside Number One: A laughable domain folder setup

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extremely careful not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to delete on the web server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous 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 remove the files of the add-on domains, please. See for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain name folder system is:

Are you getting puzzled? We definitely are!

Weak Side Number Two: The same electronic mail folder system

The electronic mail folder configuration on the web server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin chums strongly enhance their belief in God when dealing with the email folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to screw things up too gravely.

Negative Aspect Number Three: An absolute lack of domain name management tools

Do we have to cite the thorough deficiency of a contemporary domain administration tool - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois info, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a big weakness. An inexcusable one, we would like to add...

Shortcoming Number 4: Numerous user login locations (min 2, maximum three)

What about the necessity for an extra login to utilize the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support administration interface? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web hosting supplier. At times, based on the invoice transaction system (particularly created for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting vendor is utilizing, the eager clients can end up with 2 additional login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain name management software solution; 2: the ticket support tool), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (including cPanel).

Disadvantage Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty website hosting Control Panel menus to get acquainted with... fast

cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the website hosting CP. It's an excellent idea to become familiar with each of them. And you'd better get to know them swiftly... That's quite impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web hosting corporations:

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