What Precisely is cPanel Web Hosting?

For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel website hosting offerings on the present hosting market are generated by a very unsubstantial marketing niche (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-sized marketing segment, which supplies a big quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying exactly the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the hosting offers on the entire web hosting market provide literally the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting price tags are similar. Quite similar. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is simply one single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "website hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded

The website hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google shows to us come down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Suppose you are just an ordinary guy who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the web site creation procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the different domain names and online portals. Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web hosting variant you can decide upon? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than 200,000 web hosting companies out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand unique web hosting brand names across the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how big the assortment on the current website 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 firm is an immense stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps satisfied most hosting industry prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Sign Number One: A laughable domain name folder configuration

If you have two or more domains, though, be extremely cautious not to delete 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 erase on the hosting server, since they all are located 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. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Discover for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain folder setup is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is located)
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 name)

Are you getting bewildered? We absolutely are!

Inconvenience Number 2: The same mail folder setup

The email folder arrangement on the hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin guys firmly reinforce their faith in God when dealing with the mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to mess things up too harshly.

Drawback Number Three: A sheer lack of domain name management interfaces

Do we have to refer to the thorough absence of a contemporary domain name manipulation interface - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domains' Whois info, shield the Whois details, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a huge predicament. An inexcusable one, we want to point out...

Weakness Number Four: Many user login places (minimum two, max three)

How about the demand for another login to access the billing, domain and technical support management software platform? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based website hosting corporation. Occasionally, based on the invoicing transaction tool (particularly created for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel website hosting corporation is availing of, the ardent users can end up with 2 additional login locations (1: the invoicing/domain management menu; 2: the trouble ticket support GUI), winding up with a total of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).

Problem Number 5: 120+ web hosting CP areas to get familiar with... swiftly

cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the website hosting CP. It's a great idea to pick up each and every one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them promptly... That's quite impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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