What Actually is cPanel Web Hosting?

For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel website hosting offerings on the present-day web hosting market are supplied by a quite insignificant business segment (when it comes to yearly cash flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-scale marketing segment, which provides an immense amount of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing strictly the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the web hosting offerings on the entire web hosting marketplace offer strictly the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel website hosting prices are alike. Very much alike. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is merely a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

200k "website hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded

The website hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us boil down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are only a normal guy who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the site development processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and online portals. Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web hosting option you can decide upon? Of course there is, right now there are more than 200k web hosting vendors out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different web hosting brands across the world will give you exactly the same cPanel Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the assortment on today's website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple math reveals that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a huge strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly answered all website hosting business demands. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Inconvenience Number One: An imbecilic domain folder structure

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extra careful not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to delete on the web hosting server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known 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 erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Verify for yourself how great cPanel's domain name folder configuration 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 name)
public_html/my-third-domain.com (an add-on domain name)
public_html/my-third-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-third-wife.net (an add-on domain name)
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 name)

Are you getting confused? We categorically are!

Weakness Number Two: The very same e-mail folder arrangement

The e-mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chaps strongly strengthen their belief in God when tackling the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to screw things up too badly.

Weak Point Number 3: A sheer lack of domain administration interfaces

Do we need to cite the complete deficiency of a contemporary domain name manipulation menu - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois info, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a great downside. An unjustifiable one, we want to add...

Disadvantage Number Four: Many user login locations (min two, maximum three)

What about the need for an extra login to use the invoice transaction, domain name and technical support management platform? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based website hosting company. Sometimes, based on the invoice transaction tool (especially tailored for cPanel only) the cPanel website hosting company is availing of, the eager clients can wind up with 2 additional login locations (1: the billing/domain administration tool; 2: the ticket support GUI), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).

Drawback Number Five: 120+ web hosting Control Panel departments to pick up... fast

cPanel presents for your consideration 120+ departments inside the hosting Control Panel. It's a fine idea to memorize each of them. And you'd better grasp them fast... That's excessively insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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