What Exactly is cPanel Website Hosting?

For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel website hosting offerings on the current web hosting market are supplied by a very insignificant marketing segment (when it comes to annual capital flow) called hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a type of a small-sized business segment, which furnishes an enormous quantity of different web hosting brands, yet offering one and the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the hosting offers on the whole website hosting market provide exactly the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting prices are identical. Quite identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/website hosting CP option. So, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...

200,000 "website hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed

The website hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us come down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are merely a normal fellow who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the site making processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domain names and web portals. Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any web hosting variant you can decide upon? Of course there is, today there are more than 200,000 website hosting corporations in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique web hosting brands around the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, branded differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how great the diversity on the current hosting market is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple math shows that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a big stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps answered most web hosting industry demands. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Point Number 1: A laughable domain folder structure

If you have two or more domain names, though, be extremely careful not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to remove on the web server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain 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 domain names, please. Discover for yourself how terrific 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)
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 name)

Are you growing disorientated? We undoubtedly are!

Negative Side Number Two: The very same email folder setup

The email folder structure on the web server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin blokes strongly strengthen their faith in God when dealing with the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to bungle things up too gravely.

Problem No.3: A thorough shortage of domain name administration sections

Do we have to cite the utter lack of a modern domain name manipulation platform - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domain names' Whois details, shield the Whois information, change/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a huge shortcoming. An unjustifiable one, we wish to add...

Predicament Number 4: Numerous login places (min two, max 3)

What about the need for another login to access the billing transaction, domain and technical support management section? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based website hosting supplier. Now and then, depending on the billing tool (particularly intended for cPanel only) the cPanel website hosting company is utilizing, the avid customers can wind up with two additional login places (1: the invoicing/domain name management software; 2: the trouble ticket support section), ending up with an aggregate of three login locations (counting cPanel).

Negative Point No.5: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel areas to get familiar with... quickly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 departments inside the website hosting CP. It's a glorious idea to memorize each and every one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them swiftly... That's extremely arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting corporations:

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