What Precisely is cPanel Hosting?

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based website hosting offers on today's web hosting market are furnished by a very unsubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to yearly money flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-sized marketing segment, which supplies a huge amount of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing exactly the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98% of the web hosting offers on the whole web hosting marketplace offer precisely the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel website hosting prices are similar. Quite identical. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/hosting CP alternative. So, there is merely 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 two percent, mark that one...

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

The website hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us come down to just one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are simply a normal chap who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the site making processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domains and web sites. Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any hosting option you can pick? Of course there is, at present there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting firms out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique website hosting brands in the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how big the assortment on the present-day website hosting market is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple mathematics reveals that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a great stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably fulfilled most website hosting industry demands. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Inconvenience No.1: A foolish domain name folder setup

If you have two or more domains, though, be extra attentive not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to delete on the hosting server, since they all are set up 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 name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Discover for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain folder configuration 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)

Are you getting puzzled? We clearly are!

Drawback Number 2: The very same electronic mail folder system

The email folder configuration on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin chums firmly increase their faith in God when tackling the e-mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to screw things up too severely.

Weakness No.3: A total shortage of domain manipulation user interfaces

Do we have to refer to the total absence of a contemporary domain management GUI - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, change domains' Whois information, secure the Whois information, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a great disadvantage. An unjustifiable one, we want to point out...

Inconvenience Number 4: Numerous login locations (min 2, max 3)

What about the demand for an additional login to access the invoicing transaction, domain and technical support management software platform? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based website hosting provider. Sometimes, depending on the invoicing system (especially built for cPanel solely) the cPanel website hosting distributor is making use of, the devoted customers can wind up with two additional logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain administration GUI; 2: the ticket support tool), ending up with a total of three login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Point Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty website hosting Control Panel areas to learn... promptly

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 departments inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a fabulous idea to pick up each of them. And you'd better become familiar with them fast... That's way too arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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