What Indeed is cPanel Web Hosting?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based web hosting offers on the current website hosting market are provided by a quite insignificant business segment (as far as annual money flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small business niche, which furnishes a big quantity of different web hosting brands, yet providing one and the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offers on the entire web hosting marketplace supply one and the very same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting price tags are identical. Quite identical. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/hosting CP alternative. So, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, note that one...

200,000 "web hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded

The web hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us boil down to just one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are only a normal guy who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the website development processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domains and web sites. Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any web hosting option you can settle on? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than 200k web hosting firms out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different website hosting brand names all over the world will offer you the very same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the variety on the present website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple math shows that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is an immense stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably covered all website hosting market requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Aspect Number One: A laughable domain folder structure

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be ultra cautious not to remove entirely 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 name). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to erase on the web hosting server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very 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 delete the files of the add-on domains, please. See for yourself how marvelous 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)
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 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)

Are you becoming perplexed? We definitely are!

Weakness No.2: The same e-mail folder system

The e-mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin boys firmly increase their faith in God when coping with the email folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to mess things up too gravely.

Downside Number Three: A thorough deficiency of domain name manipulation user interfaces

Do we have to cite the thorough lack of a modern domain name manipulation GUI - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, edit domains' Whois information, shield the Whois information, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a considerable disadvantage. An inexcusable one, we wish to point out...

Downside No.4: Numerous login places (min 2, max 3)

How about the demand for an extra login to avail of the invoicing transaction, domain name and technical support management interface? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web hosting service provider. Now and then, on the basis of the invoice transaction tool (principally conceived for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting supplier is availing of, the avid clients can wind up with two extra login places (1: the billing transaction/domain administration software; 2: the trouble ticket support tool), ending up with an aggregate of three login locations (including cPanel).

Inconvenience No.5: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel areas to memorize... fast

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ sections inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a fabulous idea to memorize each one of them. And you'd better grasp them fast... That's extremely insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web hosting vendors:

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