What Exactly is cPanel Web Hosting?

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel web hosting offers on today's hosting market are generated by a quite inconsiderable business niche (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-scale marketing segment, which generates a great amount of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying absolutely the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offerings on the entire web hosting marketplace provide strictly the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting prices are identical. Very much alike. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is simply one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

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

The web hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google presents to us come down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Suppose you are merely an average bloke who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the web site making procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domains and web portals. Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any website hosting alternative you can choose? Of course there is, right now there are more than 200k website hosting providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ unique web hosting brands in the world will offer you literally the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the diversity on the present hosting market is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple arithmetic shows that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a colossal stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably met most website hosting business requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Downside No.1: A dumb domain name folder setup

If you have two or more domain names, however, be extremely watchful not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to remove on the web server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite 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 erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Observe for yourself how fantastic 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)
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)
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 disorientated? We undeniably are!

Downside Number 2: The very same mail folder structure

The e-mail folder structure on the hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes firmly enhance their faith in God when managing the e-mail folders on the email server, praying not to screw things up too seriously.

Negative Point Number 3: An entire lack of domain name management interfaces

Do we have to bring up the entire deficiency of a contemporary domain administration menu - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, modify domain names' Whois information, protect the Whois details, change/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" section at all. That's a great inconvenience. An unpardonable one, we want to add...

Weak Point Number 4: Many user login places (minimum two, max 3)

How about the necessity for another login to make use of the billing transaction, domain name and technical support management section? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web hosting firm. Sometimes, based on the invoicing system (particularly devised for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting service provider is availing of, the devoted customers can end up with 2 extra login locations (1: the billing/domain management system; 2: the ticket support platform), winding up with an aggregate of three user login places (including cPanel).

Weak Side Number 5: More than 120 web hosting Control Panel sections to pick up... briskly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 areas inside the web hosting CP. It's a superb idea to grasp each and every one of them. And you'd better pick them up swiftly... That's inordinately insolent on cPanel's side.

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

As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one as well...