What is cPanel Website Hosting?

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based hosting offers on the current web hosting marketplace are provided by a very inconsiderable business niche (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-sized marketing niche, which supplies a big quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying precisely the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the hosting offerings on the whole website hosting marketplace furnish one and the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel hosting prices are alike. Quite identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is simply one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed

The hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google reveals to us boil down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Imagine you are merely a normal bloke who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the website making processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and web pages. Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any website hosting option you can settle on? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than 200k web hosting companies out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand unique web hosting brand names all over the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the assortment on the present-day website hosting marketplace is... Period.

The hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple arithmetic shows that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a big strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

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

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly satisfied all website hosting industry requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Disadvantage No.1: A dumb domain name folder structure

If you have two or more domain names, however, be ultra attentive not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to delete on the web server, because they all are created 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 domain names, please. Determine for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain name folder arrangement is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is situated)
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 puzzled? We unquestionably are!

Predicament Number Two: The same electronic mail folder setup

The mail folder configuration on the hosting server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin chaps firmly increase their faith in God when handling the e-mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to botch things up too irretrievably.

Disadvantage Number 3: An absolute deficiency of domain name administration interfaces

Do we have to refer to the thorough lack of a contemporary domain management tool - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, modify domains' Whois details, shield the Whois details, modify/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a major predicament. An unpardonable one, we would like to point out...

Negative Sign Number 4: Many login locations (min two, maximum 3)

What about the need for an additional login to make use of the invoice transaction, domain name and tech support management system? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based hosting company. Now and then, based on the billing platform (especially meant for cPanel only) the cPanel hosting supplier is using, the avid users can wind up with two extra login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain name administration interface; 2: the trouble ticket support platform), ending up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).

Disadvantage Number Five: 120+ website hosting Control Panel menus to pick up... briskly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 menus inside the web hosting CP. It's a glorious idea to become acquainted with each of them. And you'd better grasp them rapidly... That's quite insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based hosting distributors:

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