What Actually is cPanel Web Hosting?

For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based web hosting offerings on the present-day web hosting marketplace are provided by a quite unsubstantial business segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-scale business niche, which generates a great number of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing exactly the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the hosting offerings on the entire web hosting market offer the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web hosting prices are similar. Very much alike. Giving those who require a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/hosting CP option. Thus, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200k website hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, note that one...

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

The web hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offers" Google reveals to us boil down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Suppose you are just an average person who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the website making processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domains and web portals. Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any web hosting alternative you can decide upon? Sure there is, now there are more than 200,000 web hosting companies in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique web hosting brands all over the world will give you precisely the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, dubbed differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the assortment on the current website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple mathematics reveals that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is an enormous stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly fulfilled all hosting industry requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Side No.1: A stupid domain folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be very attentive not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to delete on the hosting 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 name 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 domain names, please. Observe for yourself how great cPanel's domain name folder system is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is situated)
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 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 getting bewildered? We undoubtedly are!

Inconvenience Number 2: The very same electronic mail folder system

The email folder structure on the web hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys strongly fortify their faith in God when tackling the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to screw things up too fatally.

Disadvantage Number 3: An entire lack of domain name administration user interfaces

Do we have to bring up the sheer lack of a contemporary domain name administration menu - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois information, change/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a great downside. An unjustifiable one, we wish to point out...

Negative Point Number Four: Many login locations (min two, maximum three)

How about the necessity for an additional login to make use of the billing transaction, domain name and technical support administration software solution? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web hosting company. At times, based on the invoicing transaction system (especially devised for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting vendor is availing of, the avid clients can wind up with two additional login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain management software solution; 2: the ticket support software platform), ending up with a total of three login places (counting cPanel).

Drawback Number Five: 120+ web hosting Control Panel menus to become acquainted with... fast

cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the web hosting CP. It's a superb idea to get acquainted with each of them. And you'd better become familiar with them briskly... That's way too impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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