What Actually is cPanel Website Hosting?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based Website Hosting offers on the current web hosting marketplace are provided by a very inconsiderable business niche (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-sized business segment, which furnishes a vast number of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying the very same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the hosting offerings on the whole website hosting market offer the very same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel Website Hosting prices are similar. Very similar. Giving those who need a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is only one single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2%, remark that one...

200k "Website Hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded

The Website Hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google shows to us boil down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Suppose you are merely a regular fellow who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web page development procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domain names and websites. Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any website hosting alternative you can opt for? Of course there is, at present there are more than 200,000 web hosting providers out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different website hosting brand names worldwide will offer you exactly the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the assortment on the current website hosting market is... Full stop.

The Website Hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a gigantic stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel-based Website Hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly met most web hosting business demands. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Inconvenience No.1: A ludicrous domain folder configuration

If you have two or more domain names, though, be very attentive not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to remove on the server, because they all are set up 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 located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Decide for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain folder system is:

Are you growing confused? We unquestionably are!

Negative Point No.2: The same electronic mail folder structure

The e-mail folder structure on the web hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chaps firmly fortify their belief in God when tackling the email folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to botch things up too irretrievably.

Inconvenience Number 3: An entire absence of domain name manipulation GUIs

Do we have to refer to the total lack of a modern domain manipulation GUI - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domain names' Whois details, protect the Whois details, change/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" menu at all. That's an enormous problem. An unforgivable one, we want to add...

Weak Point No.4: Multiple user login places (min 2, maximum three)

How about the necessity for another login to utilize the billing, domain name and tech support management software solution? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel Website Hosting firm. Occasionally, on the basis of the invoice transaction tool (particularly built for cPanel only) the cPanel Website Hosting corporation is availing of, the keen clients can end up with two additional login locations (1: the invoicing/domain name administration menu; 2: the trouble ticket support menu), winding up with an aggregate of three user login locations (counting cPanel).

Weakness No.5: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting CP sections to memorize... promptly

cPanel presents to your attention 120+ sections inside the hosting CP. It's a marvelous idea to become acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them swiftly... That's quite insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Website Hosting providers:

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