What Exactly is cPanel Hosting?

For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel web hosting offerings on the present-day website hosting marketplace are provided by a very insignificant business niche (as far as annual money flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-size marketing segment, which generates a vast quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing the very same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offers on the whole hosting market furnish literally the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting prices are identical. Very much alike. Giving those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/website hosting CP alternative. So, there is simply one single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

200,000 "web hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled

The web hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google presents to us boil down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Assume you are just an average person who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the website making procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domain names and websites. Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any website hosting variant you can settle on? Of course there is, now there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting corporations in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique website hosting brand names worldwide will offer you the very same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the assortment on the present-day web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics shows that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is an enormous stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably answered all website hosting market demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Downside Number One: A ludicrous domain folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be very attentive not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to erase on the web server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very 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 try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Verify for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain name folder structure 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 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)

Are you growing nonplussed? We definitely are!

Downside No.2: The same e-mail folder setup

The mail folder arrangement on the web server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin chums firmly enhance their faith in God when managing the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to botch things up too irreparably.

Negative Sign Number 3: A total deficiency of domain name manipulation user interfaces

Do we need to point out the thorough shortage of a modern domain management GUI - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, change domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois information, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" section at all. That's a great weakness. An unforgivable one, we wish to point out...

Inconvenience No.4: Many user login locations (minimum 2, max three)

What about the need for another login to avail of the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support administration section? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web hosting distributor. At times, based on the invoicing transaction platform (particularly meant for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting supplier is making use of, the devoted clients can end up with 2 extra login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain administration system; 2: the trouble ticket support interface), winding up with an aggregate of three login locations (counting cPanel).

Predicament No.5: 120+ website hosting CP sections to become familiar with... fast

cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the web hosting CP. It's a wonderful idea to memorize each of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them promptly... That's excessively arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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