What Precisely is cPanel Web Hosting?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based website hosting offerings on the contemporary website hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite insubstantial marketing niche (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-scale business segment, which supplies an immense amount of different web hosting brands, yet supplying strictly the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offers on the whole web hosting market furnish absolutely the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting price tags are identical. Very much alike. Giving those who require a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/web hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is just one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...

200,000 "website hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet differently named

The website hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us boil down to just one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are just an average bloke who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the site development procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the various domain names and web pages. Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any web hosting option you can pick? Sure there is, at present there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting corporations in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different website hosting brand names across the world will give you exactly the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the diversity on the present-day web hosting market is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

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

The strong and weak points of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps satisfied most web hosting business demands. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Shortcoming No.1: An imbecilic domain name folder arrangement

If you have two or more domain names, though, be extra careful not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to delete on the web hosting server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain name folder arrangement 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)
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 becoming confused? We undoubtedly are!

Weak Point Number 2: The same mail folder structure

The email folder structure on the hosting server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin blokes firmly reinforce their faith in God when managing the email folders on the mail server, hoping not to screw things up too harshly.

Drawback No.3: An entire absence of domain administration sections

Do we need to refer to the sheer absence of a modern domain name manipulation menu - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, modify domain names' Whois details, shield the Whois information, edit/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a colossal downside. An inexcusable one, we wish to add...

Negative Point Number 4: Multiple user login locations (minimum two, max 3)

What about the need for another login to use the billing transaction, domain and technical support management section? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel website hosting provider. At times, on the basis of the invoicing transaction platform (especially conceived for cPanel solely) the cPanel website hosting provider is using, the earnest clients can end up with two extra login locations (1: the billing/domain administration software solution; 2: the trouble ticket support GUI), winding up with a total of three user login locations (including cPanel).

Downside No.5: More than a hundred and twenty website hosting Control Panel sections to get to know... fast

cPanel offers to your attention 120+ menus inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's an excellent idea to grasp each of them. And you'd better get familiar with them fast... That's way too arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting distributors:

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