What is cPanel Website Hosting?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel Website Hosting offers on today's website hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite insignificant marketing segment (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-sized marketing segment, which supplies a big number of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying exactly the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offerings on the entire web hosting market offer the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel Website Hosting prices are similar. Very similar. Giving those who need a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "Website Hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled

The Website Hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google shows to us boil down to just one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are simply a normal fellow who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web page making procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domain names and web sites. Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web hosting alternative you can decide upon? Sure there is, today there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting firms in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different website hosting brands worldwide will give you strictly the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how great the variety on the present-day hosting market is... Full stop.

The Website Hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple mathematics reveals that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a huge strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

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 modish and possibly satisfied all web hosting business preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Side No.1: An idiotic domain name folder arrangement

If you have two or more domains, though, be very careful not to delete entirely 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). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to erase on the hosting server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous 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 attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how great cPanel's domain folder system is:

Are you growing confused? We undoubtedly are!

Shortcoming No.2: The same electronic mail folder system

The e-mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chaps firmly enhance their belief in God when dealing with the email folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to muck things up too badly.

Drawback No.3: A total shortage of domain administration tools

Do we need to refer to the entire shortage of a modern domain management user interface - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domains' Whois info, protect the Whois information, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not supply such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a major inconvenience. An inexcusable one, we wish to add...

Negative Aspect Number Four: Multiple login places (minimum 2, max three)

How about the need for an extra login to access the invoicing, domain and technical support administration platform? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel Website Hosting service provider. Sometimes, on the basis of the billing transaction system (especially made for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel Website Hosting provider is making use of, the eager customers can end up with 2 additional login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration tool; 2: the ticket support platform), ending up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).

Inconvenience Number Five: More than 120 web hosting CP menus to become acquainted with... promptly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 sections inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a glorious idea to get familiar with each one of them. And you'd better memorize them swiftly... That's extremely arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Website Hosting companies:

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