What In Fact is cPanel Website Hosting?

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel hosting offers on the contemporary web hosting market are supplied by a quite insignificant marketing niche (when it comes to annual cash flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-sized business segment, which furnishes a big number of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing the very same thing: chiefly 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 whole web hosting marketplace provide strictly the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel hosting price tags are alike. Very much alike. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/web hosting CP choice. So, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200k hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...

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

The hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us boil down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different hosting brand names. Suppose you are simply an ordinary bloke who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the web page creation processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the various domain names and websites. Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any website hosting option you can choose? Sure there is, at present there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting vendors in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ different website hosting brands across the world will give you the very same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on today's web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple mathematics reveals that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a great strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

The pros and cons of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps fulfilled all web hosting business demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weakness Number 1: A moronic domain name folder setup

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extra cautious not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to erase on the hosting server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, 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 try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. See for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain 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)
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 categorically are!

Inconvenience Number Two: The very same e-mail folder setup

The mail folder structure on the web server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin chums strongly reinforce their belief in God when managing the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to screw things up too harshly.

Shortcoming Number Three: An utter shortage of domain management tools

Do we need to mention the entire deficiency of a contemporary domain administration user interface - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, modify domains' Whois information, protect the Whois information, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a big predicament. An unforgettable one, we would like to point out...

Problem No.4: Multiple user login places (min two, max three)

How about the demand for an additional login to use the invoicing transaction, domain name and technical support management platform? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based hosting firm. Now and then, based on the invoicing tool (especially devised for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel hosting company is availing of, the devoted users can end up with 2 additional login locations (1: the billing/domain administration software; 2: the ticket support user interface), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login places (including cPanel).

Negative Side Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel menus to memorize... swiftly

cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 departments inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a great idea to grasp each one of them. And you'd better pick them up quickly... That's extremely impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based hosting firms:

As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one as well...