What Exactly is cPanel Web Hosting?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based hosting offers on the current website hosting marketplace are generated by a very inconsiderable marketing niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a kind of a small-size business niche, which furnishes a big amount of different web hosting brand names, yet offering literally the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98% of the web hosting offerings on the entire website hosting marketplace provide one and the very same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel hosting prices are alike. Quite identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, note that one...

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

The hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us come down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just an average bloke who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the web site creation procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domain names and websites. Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any hosting option you can opt for? Of course there is, these days there are more than two hundred thousand hosting distributors in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique hosting brand names worldwide will offer you absolutely the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the assortment on today's web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple mathematics reveals that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is an immense stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The pros and cons of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably satisfied all web hosting market requirements. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Aspect Number 1: A dumb domain name folder setup

If you have two or more domains, though, be extra careful not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to delete on the web hosting server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how marvelous 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 name)
public_html/my-third-domain.com (an add-on domain)
public_html/my-third-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-third-wife.net (an add-on domain name)
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 disorientated? We positively are!

Drawback Number Two: The very same email folder configuration

The e-mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin blokes firmly reinforce their belief in God when dealing with the mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too seriously.

Weakness Number 3: An entire shortage of domain name management tools

Do we need to cite the sheer deficiency of a modern domain manipulation platform - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domains' Whois info, secure the Whois info, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a major weakness. An inexcusable one, we want to point out...

Negative Aspect No.4: Numerous user login places (minimum 2, max 3)

How about the need for an additional login to avail of the billing, domain and technical support management tool? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based hosting service provider. Sometimes, on the basis of the billing platform (particularly tailored for cPanel solely) the cPanel hosting supplier is availing of, the keen customers can end up with 2 additional login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain name management system; 2: the ticket support section), winding up with a total of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).

Weak Side Number Five: More than 120 website hosting Control Panel departments to get familiar with... quickly

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ menus inside the hosting CP. It's a terrific idea to learn each of them. And you'd better pick them up swiftly... That's excessively impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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