What is cPanel Website Hosting?
For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based Website Hosting offers on today's web hosting marketplace are furnished by a very insignificant business niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-size business niche, which generates a vast quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet offering literally the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offers on the entire website hosting marketplace furnish the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel Website Hosting price tags are alike. Very much alike. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/website hosting CP choice. So, there is just one fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, mark that one...
Two hundred thousand "Website Hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named
The Website Hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offers" Google shows to us come down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are merely a regular bloke who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the web site making procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domains and online portals. Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any website hosting variant you can choose? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than 200,000 web hosting suppliers out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ different website hosting brand names across the world will give you precisely the same cPanel CP and platform, dubbed differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how large the assortment on the present-day hosting marketplace is... Period.
The Website Hosting LOTTERY we are all part of
Simple mathematics reveals that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is an immense stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...
The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel Website Hosting solution
Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably satisfied most web hosting industry demands. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Downside Number One: A laughable domain folder structure
If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extremely attentive not to erase fully 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 name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to delete on the server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, 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 erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain folder arrangement 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 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)
Are you growing nonplussed? We definitely are!
Weak Point No.2: The very same email folder system
The e-mail folder structure on the web server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums firmly strengthen their faith in God when managing the email folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to screw things up too severely.
Disadvantage No.3: A total deficiency of domain manipulation user interfaces
Do we have to point out the total lack of a contemporary domain name manipulation interface - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, alter domains' Whois info, shield the Whois info, change/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a great problem. An unforgettable one, we wish to point out...
Weakness Number Four: Multiple user login places (minimum two, max three)
How about the demand for another login to avail of the invoice transaction, domain and technical support management software solution? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel Website Hosting firm. At times, depending on the invoicing transaction platform (principally made for cPanel solely) the cPanel Website Hosting firm is availing of, the ardent users can end up with 2 additional logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain name administration software platform; 2: the trouble ticket support tool), ending up with a total of 3 user login places (including cPanel).
Negative Aspect Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting CP departments to get acquainted with... briskly
cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a remarkable idea to get familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them swiftly... That's inordinately impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Website Hosting vendors:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one too...
| Starter | WordPress Hosting | WordPress Hosting Pro | Business |
| Unlimited storage | Unlimited storage | Unlimited storage | Unlimited storage |
| Unlimited bandwidth | Unlimited bandwidth | Unlimited bandwidth | Unlimited bandwidth |
| 1 website hosted | Unlimited websites hosted | Unlimited websites hosted | 5 websites hosted |
| 30-Day Free Trial | 30-Day Free Trial | 30-Day Free Trial | 30-Day Free Trial |
| $3.67 / month | $9.00 / month | $11.58 / month | $5.92 / month |