What is cPanel Website Hosting?

For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel hosting offerings on the present web hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite insignificant marketing niche (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-scale business niche, which furnishes a vast amount of different web hosting brands, yet supplying literally the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offers on the entire web hosting market furnish one and the very same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting price tags are alike. Quite identical. Giving those who need a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel option. So, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

200k "hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded

The hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google presents to us come down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Assume you are only an ordinary bloke who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web site creation procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and web sites. Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any website hosting variant you can select? Of course there is, right now there are more than 200,000 web hosting distributors out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different web hosting brand names across the world will offer you the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, named differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the diversity on the present-day web hosting market is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a colossal stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will occur! Less than one in 50...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably covered most website hosting business requirements. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Point No.1: A dumb domain name folder structure

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extremely careful not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to delete on the server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous 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 delete the files of the add-on domains, please. See for yourself how great cPanel's domain folder configuration 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)
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)

Are you growing baffled? We absolutely are!

Weakness No.2: The same mail folder arrangement

The electronic mail folder configuration on the web server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin guys strongly enhance their belief in God when managing the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to botch things up too gravely.

Negative Sign No.3: An utter lack of domain management tools

Do we have to refer to the total deficiency of a contemporary domain name administration user interface - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domain names' Whois details, protect the Whois details, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" section at all. That's a mammoth drawback. An unpardonable one, we would like to point out...

Negative Sign Number 4: Multiple login places (min 2, maximum three)

What about the demand for an additional login to make use of the billing transaction, domain and tech support management system? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel hosting service provider. Now and then, on the basis of the invoice transaction platform (particularly built for cPanel only) the cPanel hosting service provider is availing of, the zealous users can end up with two extra logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management section; 2: the trouble ticket support tool), ending up with a total of three login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Aspect Number 5: More than 120 website hosting CP departments to grasp... promptly

cPanel presents to your attention 120+ departments inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a fine idea to become familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them briskly... That's extremely impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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