What In Fact is cPanel Website Hosting?

For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based web hosting offerings on the present-day website hosting market are generated by a very insignificant business niche (when it comes to yearly cash flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-size business niche, which furnishes an enormous amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing one and the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offerings on the entire web hosting market offer absolutely the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web hosting price tags are alike. Very identical. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/Control Panel option. So, there is only a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "web hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly branded

The web hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us come down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Imagine you are merely an ordinary bloke who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the site development procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domain names and sites. Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any web hosting alternative you can settle on? Of course there is, at present there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting companies out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique hosting brands worldwide will offer you literally the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the diversity on the contemporary hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic shows that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a huge stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably fulfilled most web hosting industry demands. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Predicament No.1: A moronic domain folder configuration

If you have two or more domains, however, be ultra careful not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to erase on the server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Check for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain folder setup is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is placed)
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)
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 becoming perplexed? We doubtlessly are!

Problem Number 2: The very same e-mail folder system

The mail folder structure on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chums firmly increase their faith in God when tackling the mail folders on the mail server, praying not to muck things up too gravely.

Negative Side Number 3: An utter deficiency of domain management sections

Do we need to bring up the total absence of a modern domain administration interface - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, alter domains' Whois info, shield the Whois information, change/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not supply such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a considerable inconvenience. An unforgivable one, we want to point out...

Disadvantage No.4: Numerous user login locations (minimum 2, maximum three)

What about the necessity for another login to access the billing, domain and tech support administration software? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web hosting firm. Now and then, depending on the invoicing system (principally made for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting company is using, the earnest clients can wind up with 2 extra logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain administration interface; 2: the trouble ticket support system), ending up with a total of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).

Negative Sign No.5: 120+ web hosting Control Panel menus to get familiar with... quickly

cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the web hosting CP. It's a glorious idea to get acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better learn them briskly... That's very impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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