What is cPanel Web Hosting?

For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based website hosting offers on the present website hosting marketplace are furnished by a very insubstantial business niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-scale marketing niche, which generates a huge number of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing one and the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offerings on the entire web hosting market provide literally the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel website hosting price tags are alike. Very much alike. Giving those who need a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is only one fact: out of more than 200k web hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, note that one...

200k "website hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled

The website hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google reveals to us boil down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Imagine you are just a regular person who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the site making procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the various domains and online portals. Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any hosting alternative you can pick? Sure there is, as of now there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting suppliers in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ different web hosting brand names around the world will give you strictly the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the diversity on the current hosting market is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics shows that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a colossal strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

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

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly answered all website hosting industry demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Predicament Number 1: A foolish domain name folder arrangement

If you have two or more domains, though, be very attentive not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain, 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 hosting server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular 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 delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain folder structure 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)
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 getting disorientated? We surely are!

Weakness Number Two: The very same mail folder system

The e-mail folder configuration on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly strengthen their faith in God when tackling the electronic mail folders on the email server, hoping not to mess things up too severely.

Inconvenience No.3: A complete deficiency of domain manipulation menus

Do we have to cite the utter lack of a modern domain name management GUI - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domains' Whois information, secure the Whois information, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a vast predicament. An unforgettable one, we wish to add...

Drawback Number Four: Many login locations (minimum two, max three)

How about the necessity for an extra login to make use of the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support management menu? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based website hosting vendor. At times, based on the billing platform (principally intended for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel website hosting distributor is using, the enthusiastic clients can end up with 2 extra login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain name administration software; 2: the ticket support menu), winding up with an aggregate of three login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Point Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting CP menus to become familiar with... promptly

cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 areas inside the web hosting CP. It's a fine idea to grasp each and every one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them swiftly... That's inordinately arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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