What Exactly is cPanel Web Hosting?

For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel hosting offers on the contemporary web hosting marketplace are supplied by a very unsubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to yearly money flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a type of a small marketing segment, which furnishes an immense amount of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing exactly the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offers on the entire website hosting marketplace offer precisely the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel hosting prices are similar. Very much alike. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/website hosting CP option. 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%! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded

The hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google presents to us boil down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Assume you are just a normal fellow who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the website making processes and the hosting platforms, which actually power the various domain names and web pages. Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web hosting option you can decide upon? Sure there is, now there are more than 200k website hosting firms out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique web hosting brand names around the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the variety on the present-day hosting market is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic reveals that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is an enormous stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will occur! Less than one 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 fashionable and possibly covered all web hosting market demands. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Side Number One: An idiotic domain folder arrangement

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 next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to remove on the server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Decide for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain name 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 getting perplexed? We unquestionably are!

Drawback Number Two: The same mail folder structure

The email folder configuration on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin chums firmly fortify their belief in God when coping with the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to bungle things up too severely.

Problem Number Three: A thorough lack of domain manipulation interfaces

Do we need to cite the absolute shortage of a contemporary domain name management interface - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, modify domains' Whois details, secure the Whois information, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" tool at all. That's an immense downside. An unforgivable one, we want to point out...

Downside Number Four: Many user login places (minimum 2, max 3)

How about the need for another login to utilize the invoicing transaction, domain name and technical support administration software platform? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based hosting company. At times, on the basis of the invoice transaction system (particularly conceived for cPanel only) the cPanel hosting company is making use of, the eager clients can wind up with 2 additional logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain administration section; 2: the trouble ticket support software platform), winding up with a total of 3 login places (including cPanel).

Weakness No.5: 120+ website hosting CP departments to learn... promptly

cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a terrific idea to pick up each of them. And you'd better become familiar with them quickly... That's excessively insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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