What Indeed is cPanel Website Hosting?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel Website Hosting offers on the present-day hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite insubstantial marketing niche (as far as annual money flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-size marketing niche, which generates an immense number of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing literally the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offers on the entire web hosting market furnish literally the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based Website Hosting prices are alike. Quite identical. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/Control Panel choice. So, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "Website Hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly branded

The Website Hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us come down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are only an ordinary fellow who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the website creation procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and web portals. Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any website hosting variant you can pick? Of course there is, right now there are more than 200,000 web hosting firms out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand different web hosting brand names across the world will offer you absolutely the same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how great the diversity on the contemporary web hosting market is... Period.

The Website Hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a gigantic strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel Website Hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably covered most web hosting industry demands. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Side Number One: An idiotic domain name folder setup

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extremely cautious not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to remove on the web server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite 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 erase the files of the add-on domains, please. See for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain folder setup is:

Are you becoming baffled? We definitely are!

Drawback Number Two: The same mail folder setup

The email folder arrangement on the web hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin chums strongly increase their faith in God when coping with the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to screw things up too harshly.

Problem Number 3: A total absence of domain administration interfaces

Do we need to point out the entire lack of a contemporary domain name management tool - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, modify domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois info, change/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" GUI at all. That's an immense drawback. An unforgivable one, we would like to add...

Drawback Number 4: Many user login locations (minimum two, maximum three)

What about the demand for an additional login to use the billing, domain and tech support management tool? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel Website Hosting firm. Sometimes, on the basis of the invoice transaction system (especially intended for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel Website Hosting firm is making use of, the keen clients can end up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoicing/domain name administration interface; 2: the ticket support interface), ending up with a total of 3 login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Side No.5: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel areas to become familiar with... swiftly

cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 menus inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a fantastic idea to grasp each of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them fast... That's extremely impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Website Hosting companies:

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