What Actually is cPanel Web Hosting?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel website hosting offerings on the current website hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite inconsiderable business segment (when it comes to annual cash flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-sized business niche, which provides a great amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying exactly the same solutions: mostly 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 website hosting marketplace offer the very same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel website hosting price tags are identical. Very identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200k website hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...

200,000 "website hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed

The website hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us come down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Imagine you are simply an average bloke who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the site creation processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domains and web portals. Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any hosting alternative you can settle on? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than 200k website hosting service providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different website hosting brand names in the world will give you the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the diversity on the current web hosting market is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math demonstrates that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a mammoth strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

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

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably covered most web hosting business preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Aspect Number One: A moronic domain folder configuration

If you have two or more domains, though, be extra attentive not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to erase on the hosting server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Verify for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain folder setup 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 growing bewildered? We surely are!

Downside Number Two: The very same email folder structure

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly enhance their belief in God when coping with the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to screw things up too seriously.

Weakness No.3: A total lack of domain name manipulation options

Do we have to refer to the sheer absence of a modern domain name administration tool - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois details, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" section at all. That's a gigantic disadvantage. An unpardonable one, we would like to add...

Disadvantage No.4: Many login locations (min two, maximum 3)

What about the need for an extra login to utilize the invoicing, domain name and tech support management section? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel website hosting service provider. Occasionally, based on the invoicing transaction platform (particularly devised for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel website hosting service provider is making use of, the ardent users can wind up with two extra logins (1: the invoicing/domain administration system; 2: the trouble ticket support interface), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (including cPanel).

Drawback Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel areas to get familiar with... swiftly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the website hosting CP. It's a great idea to get to know each and every one of them. And you'd better grasp them fast... That's extremely impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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