What Actually is cPanel Web Hosting?

For your information, it’s good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based web hosting offers on the current website hosting market are generated by a quite insubstantial marketing niche (as far as annual money flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-size business segment, which provides a big number of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing strictly the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offers on the entire website hosting marketplace provide one and the very same solution: cPanel. There’s no difference at all. Even the cPanel web hosting prices are alike. Quite identical. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/website hosting CP option. Thus, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200k hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, remark that one…

200,000 “web hosting distributors”, all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed

The web hosting “diversity” and the website hosting “offerings” Google reveals to all of us come down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under 100’s of 1000’s of different hosting trademarked names. Assume you are merely an ordinary chap who’s not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the website development processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domain names and online portals. Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any website hosting option you can choose? Of course there is, at present there are more than 200k website hosting suppliers out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here’s where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different web hosting brand names worldwide will offer you the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That’s how immense the diversity on the current web hosting marketplace is… Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple arithmetic reveals that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting company is an enormous stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50…

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let’s not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably satisfied most web hosting market preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names…

Negative Aspect Number 1: A moronic domain name folder structure

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extremely watchful not to delete fully the add-on ones (that’s how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to remove on the server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known 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 delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Check for yourself how fabulous cPanel’s domain folder system is:

Are you growing confused? We certainly are!

Problem Number 2: The same electronic mail folder setup

The mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domain names… Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin guys strongly reinforce their belief in God when dealing with the email folders on the e-mail server, praying not to botch things up too irreparably.

Predicament No.3: An utter lack of domain name manipulation user interfaces

Do we have to refer to the absolute shortage of a contemporary domain management GUI – a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domain names’ Whois info, shield the Whois info, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not furnish such a “contemporary” interface at all. That’s a colossal predicament. An unforgettable one, we want to add…

Negative Aspect No.4: Many user login places (min two, maximum three)

How about the necessity for another login to avail of the invoicing transaction, domain name and technical support administration section? That’s aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you’ve been already provided by the cPanel-based web hosting company. Occasionally, based on the billing platform (especially tailored for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting supplier is making use of, the keen customers can wind up with two additional login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain administration software; 2: the trouble ticket support system), ending up with a total of three login places (counting cPanel).

Drawback Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting CP departments to become acquainted with… rapidly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the hosting Control Panel. It’s a wonderful idea to pick up each and every one of them. And you’d better memorize them fast… That’s very insolent on cPanel’s side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web hosting vendors:

As far as we are informed, it’s not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one too…