What In Fact is cPanel Web Hosting?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based hosting offers on the present-day web hosting marketplace are provided by a very inconsiderable business niche (as far as annual money flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-scale marketing niche, which provides a huge amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying one and the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offers on the entire hosting marketplace supply precisely the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel hosting prices are similar. Very much alike. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is simply a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

200k "hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named

The hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google presents to us come down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just a regular fellow who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the web page creation processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domains and web sites. Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any website hosting variant you can choose? Sure there is, at present there are more than 200k website hosting providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different web hosting brands around the world will give you exactly the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the assortment on today's hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics reveals that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is an immense stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps satisfied all web hosting market demands. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Problem No.1: A dumb domain folder setup

If you have two or more domain names, however, be ultra careful not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to erase on the web server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Verify for yourself how fantastic 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)
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 confused? We doubtlessly are!

Negative Side No.2: The very same electronic mail folder system

The electronic mail folder configuration on the hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly fortify their faith in God when coping with the electronic mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to screw things up too fatally.

Inconvenience No.3: A thorough shortage of domain management menus

Do we need to cite the total deficiency of a contemporary domain name administration menu - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domain names' Whois information, protect the Whois info, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" interface at all. That's a major drawback. An inexcusable one, we want to point out...

Shortcoming Number Four: Many user login locations (min 2, max 3)

What about the demand for another login to access the billing, domain name and technical support management user interface? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based hosting company. At times, based on the billing transaction system (especially developed for cPanel only) the cPanel hosting company is utilizing, the eager clients can wind up with 2 additional login places (1: the invoicing/domain management menu; 2: the ticket support software solution), ending up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (including cPanel).

Negative Aspect Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty website hosting Control Panel sections to get acquainted with... swiftly

cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a superb idea to get familiar with each one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them quickly... That's excessively arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, 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? Mark that one too...