What is cPanel Website Hosting?

For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based web hosting offers on the present-day web hosting marketplace are furnished by a very insubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to yearly cash flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-size marketing niche, which generates an immense amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying exactly the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98% of the website hosting offerings on the entire website hosting market offer one and the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web hosting price tags are identical. Very similar. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200k hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "web hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed

The web hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us boil down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are only a regular guy who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web page creation processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domain names and web portals. Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any web hosting option you can settle on? Sure there is, right now there are more than 200k web hosting companies in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique web hosting brands around the world will give you the very same cPanel hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the assortment on the current web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math demonstrates that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is an enormous stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably fulfilled all web hosting business preconditions. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Aspect Number 1: A laughable domain name folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be very attentive not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to erase on the web server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain folder setup is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is situated)
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)
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 bewildered? We unquestionably are!

Negative Point Number 2: The very same electronic mail folder system

The mail folder arrangement on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin chums strongly strengthen their belief in God when handling the mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too seriously.

Negative Aspect Number Three: A sheer absence of domain name manipulation GUIs

Do we need to bring up the total deficiency of a modern domain name management tool - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois information, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's an enormous shortcoming. An unjustifiable one, we wish to add...

Disadvantage Number 4: Many login locations (minimum 2, max 3)

What about the need for an additional login to make use of the billing transaction, domain name and technical support administration system? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web hosting provider. Occasionally, on the basis of the invoice transaction system (especially devised for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting supplier is availing of, the eager customers can end up with two additional login places (1: the billing/domain name management interface; 2: the ticket support user interface), ending up with a total of 3 login places (counting cPanel).

Weakness Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty Control Panel menus to grasp... swiftly

cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 menus inside the CP. It's a fabulous idea to get familiar with each of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them quickly... That's very insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web hosting providers:

As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one as well...