What In Fact is cPanel Web Hosting?

For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based website hosting offerings on the contemporary hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite unsubstantial marketing niche (as far as annual money flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-scale business niche, which generates an enormous number of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying the very same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offerings on the whole web hosting market supply precisely the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting prices are identical. Very similar. Giving those who require a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is simply one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

200,000 "website hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled

The website hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google reveals to us boil down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are just a regular bloke who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the website creation procedures and the hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domains and web pages. Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any hosting alternative you can decide upon? Of course there is, at present there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand unique website hosting brand names around the world will offer you the very same cPanel Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the diversity on the current web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic shows that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a huge strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The pros and cons of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly covered all website hosting industry prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Disadvantage No.1: A moronic domain name folder setup

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be ultra cautious not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next 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 hosting server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Observe for yourself how great cPanel's domain folder system 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 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 confused? We doubtlessly are!

Negative Point Number 2: The same e-mail folder setup

The mail folder arrangement on the server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes firmly fortify their belief in God when managing the mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to botch things up too harshly.

Weak Side Number Three: An utter absence of domain name administration user interfaces

Do we need to cite the thorough shortage of a modern domain name management platform - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, alter domains' Whois information, secure the Whois details, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" interface at all. That's a huge weakness. An unforgettable one, we want to point out...

Inconvenience Number Four: Many login locations (minimum 2, maximum three)

What about the necessity for another login to make use of the billing transaction, domain and technical support management interface? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based website hosting distributor. At times, on the basis of the billing transaction tool (especially devised for cPanel only) the cPanel website hosting firm is making use of, the ardent users can wind up with two additional logins (1: the billing/domain administration menu; 2: the ticket support menu), ending up with an aggregate of three login locations (counting cPanel).

Disadvantage Number Five: 120+ web hosting CP areas to memorize... promptly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the web hosting CP. It's a terrific idea to become familiar with each one of them. And you'd better learn them rapidly... That's quite impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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