What Exactly is cPanel Web Hosting?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based website hosting offerings on today's web hosting market are supplied by a very insignificant business segment (when it comes to annual money flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small marketing segment, which provides an immense amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing literally the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98% of the website hosting offerings on the entire web hosting marketplace furnish one and the very same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting price tags are alike. Very much alike. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is only one single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

200k "website hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled

The website hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us come down to just one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are only an average bloke who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the website development procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domain names and online portals. Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any web hosting alternative you can choose? Of course there is, as of now there are more than 200,000 website hosting firms in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different web hosting brands across the world will give you precisely the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the variety on the contemporary website hosting marketplace is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple math demonstrates that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a huge stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The pros and cons of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly satisfied most web hosting industry requirements. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weakness Number 1: A dumb domain name folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extremely careful not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to remove on the hosting server, since they all are located 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 located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Verify for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain 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)
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 unquestionably are!

Problem No.2: The same electronic mail folder configuration

The mail folder structure on the web hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin guys firmly reinforce their faith in God when coping with the electronic mail folders on the mail server, praying not to muck things up too fatally.

Negative Aspect Number Three: An absolute absence of domain administration sections

Do we need to point out the thorough deficiency of a contemporary domain name administration interface - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, edit domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois details, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not contain such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's an immense drawback. An unpardonable one, we want to add...

Negative Sign Number Four: Numerous login places (minimum 2, max 3)

What about the need for an additional login to utilize the invoice transaction, domain and tech support administration user interface? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based website hosting provider. Now and then, depending on the billing tool (principally created for cPanel solely) the cPanel website hosting provider is utilizing, the avid users can end up with two additional login places (1: the invoicing/domain management section; 2: the trouble ticket support GUI), winding up with an aggregate of three login locations (including cPanel).

Weak Point No.5: More than 120 website hosting CP departments to get acquainted with... fast

cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a remarkable idea to become acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them briskly... That's inordinately insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting vendors:

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