What Precisely is cPanel Website Hosting?

For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based Website Hosting offers on the current web hosting market are furnished by a quite insignificant business segment (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small marketing segment, which generates a big amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing exactly the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offers on the whole web hosting marketplace provide the very same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel Website Hosting price tags are similar. Very much alike. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/website hosting CP choice. Thus, there is just one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

Two hundred thousand "Website Hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet differently named

The Website Hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us come down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Suppose you are merely an ordinary fellow who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web site creation procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domains and web sites. Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any web hosting option you can decide upon? Sure there is, at present there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting firms out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ different hosting brands across the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the assortment on the present-day web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The Website Hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math reveals that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a colossal stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel-based Website Hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps fulfilled most hosting industry requirements. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Drawback No.1: A laughable domain folder setup

If you have two or more domains, however, be extremely careful not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to delete on the hosting server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated 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. Decide for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain folder setup is:

Are you growing perplexed? We clearly are!

Weakness Number Two: The same electronic mail folder system

The e-mail folder arrangement on the server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The admin chums strongly enhance their belief in God when coping with the mail folders on the email server, praying not to bungle things up too harshly.

Shortcoming No.3: A complete shortage of domain management tools

Do we need to refer to the sheer shortage of a contemporary domain name administration menu - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, alter domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois information, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a great disadvantage. An unforgivable one, we wish to point out...

Shortcoming Number Four: Numerous user login places (min two, maximum three)

How about the necessity for another login to use the invoicing transaction, domain name and technical support management section? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel Website Hosting corporation. Sometimes, based on the billing system (principally tailored for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel Website Hosting corporation is utilizing, the eager clients can wind up with two extra login locations (1: the invoicing/domain management software platform; 2: the ticket support menu), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (including cPanel).

Shortcoming Number Five: More than 120 hosting CP sections to memorize... quickly

cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the website hosting CP. It's a superb idea to become familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them swiftly... That's excessively insolent on cPanel's side.

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

As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one as well...