What is cPanel Web Hosting?

For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based website hosting offerings on the contemporary web hosting market are provided by a quite inconsiderable marketing niche (when it comes to yearly cash flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small business segment, which furnishes an enormous quantity of different web hosting brands, yet offering strictly the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offerings on the entire web hosting marketplace supply exactly the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel website hosting prices are similar. Very similar. Giving those who need a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200k website hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "website hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled

The website hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google shows to us boil down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are simply an average bloke who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the site creation processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and web sites. Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any website hosting variant you can pick? Sure there is, now there are more than 200k website hosting corporations in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different website hosting brands across the world will offer you literally 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 variety on today's web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math demonstrates that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a great strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably covered most website hosting business prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Aspect Number 1: An imbecilic domain name folder arrangement

If you have two or more domain names, though, be ultra attentive not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to delete on the web server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous 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 try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Discover for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain folder arrangement is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is located)
public_html/my-family (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-domain.com (an add-on domain name)
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)
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 getting nonplussed? We unquestionably are!

Downside No.2: The same electronic mail folder structure

The mail folder structure on the web server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Making the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys strongly reinforce their faith in God when dealing with the electronic mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to botch things up too fatally.

Inconvenience Number 3: A complete absence of domain name management GUIs

Do we have to point out the complete shortage of a contemporary domain name administration tool - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domains' Whois information, secure the Whois details, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a gigantic inconvenience. An unforgettable one, we want to point out...

Disadvantage Number Four: Many user login places (min 2, maximum three)

What about the necessity for another login to avail of the invoicing, domain and technical support administration user interface? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based website hosting distributor. At times, based on the invoice transaction tool (especially developed for cPanel solely) the cPanel website hosting firm is utilizing, the earnest clients can wind up with two additional login places (1: the billing/domain management section; 2: the trouble ticket support software platform), ending up with a total of 3 login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Side Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty website hosting Control Panel departments to get to know... rapidly

cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a remarkable idea to pick up each of them. And you'd better become familiar with them quickly... That's very impudent on cPanel's side.

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

As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one as well...