What Actually is cPanel Web Hosting?

For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based website hosting offerings on the present-day web hosting market are generated by a quite insubstantial business segment (when it comes to annual money flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-sized marketing niche, which furnishes a huge amount of different web hosting brands, yet supplying the very same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offers on the whole web hosting market supply one and the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel website hosting price tags are alike. Quite identical. Giving those who need a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is only one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, note that one...

200,000 "website hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled

The website hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us boil down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different hosting brand names. Imagine you are just an ordinary fellow who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the site making processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domain names and sites. Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any hosting alternative you can select? Sure there is, at present there are more than 200,000 web hosting vendors in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different website hosting brands around the world will give you the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the variety on the current website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

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

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly covered all web hosting business requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Disadvantage Number One: An imbecilic domain name folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extremely cautious not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to remove on the web server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Verify for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain name folder system is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is located)
public_html/my-family (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-domain.com (an add-on domain name)
public_html/my-second-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-wife.net (an add-on domain)
public_html/my-third-domain.com (an add-on domain)
public_html/my-third-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-third-wife.net (an add-on domain)
public_html/rebeka (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/rebeka.my-third-wife.net (a sub-domain of an add-on domain)

Are you growing nonplussed? We doubtlessly are!

Downside No.2: The very same email folder arrangement

The email folder structure on the server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly reinforce their belief in God when coping with the mail folders on the email server, hoping not to muck things up too severely.

Weak Side Number Three: A total lack of domain management user interfaces

Do we need to refer to the utter lack of a contemporary domain administration platform - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, modify domain names' Whois details, shield the Whois information, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" user interface at all. That's an immense inconvenience. An unjustifiable one, we wish to add...

Inconvenience Number 4: Multiple user login places (minimum two, max three)

How about the need for an extra login to make use of the billing, domain and tech support management section? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel website hosting distributor. At times, based on the invoice transaction platform (especially meant for cPanel solely) the cPanel website hosting supplier is making use of, the avid clients can end up with two additional logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration platform; 2: the trouble ticket support menu), ending up with a total of three login locations (including cPanel).

Weakness Number Five: More than 120 website hosting Control Panel areas to grasp... fast

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 areas inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a superb idea to get acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better get to know them swiftly... That's quite arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based website hosting corporations:

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