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What is cPanel Website Hosting?

For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based hosting offers on the present web hosting market are generated by a quite insignificant business niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-size marketing segment, which provides a huge number of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing precisely the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offers on the whole web hosting market furnish one and the very same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel hosting price tags are identical. Very much alike. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other hosting platform/web hosting CP alternative. So, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...

200k "hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded

The hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offers" Google shows to us come down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are only an average person who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the web page creation procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domains and web sites. Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any website hosting variant you can settle on? Of course there is, now there are more than 200,000 website hosting companies in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique web hosting brands around the world will offer you the very same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the diversity on today's website hosting market is... Period.

The hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple arithmetic shows that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a great stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The pros and cons of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably answered most website hosting market preconditions. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Shortcoming Number One: A foolish domain name folder structure

If you have two or more domains, however, be extra careful not to remove 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 name). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to delete on the web hosting server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular 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 domain names, please. Check for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain folder system 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)
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 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 nonplussed? We doubtlessly are!

Inconvenience No.2: The very same email folder arrangement

The email folder arrangement on the web server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly strengthen their faith in God when managing the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to mess things up too badly.

Weakness Number Three: A complete absence of domain manipulation GUIs

Do we have to mention the absolute absence of a contemporary domain administration menu - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, change domains' Whois details, secure the Whois info, edit/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" section at all. That's a gigantic inconvenience. An inexcusable one, we want to add...

Weak Point No.4: Many user login places (min 2, max three)

What about the necessity for an additional login to access the invoice transaction, domain name and tech support management software platform? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel hosting corporation. Sometimes, depending on the invoicing tool (principally created for cPanel solely) the cPanel hosting distributor is using, the keen customers can end up with two extra logins (1: the billing transaction/domain name management software; 2: the trouble ticket support user interface), ending up with an aggregate of three login places (including cPanel).

Weakness Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel departments to get acquainted with... fast

cPanel offers to your attention 120+ menus inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a fabulous idea to become familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them fast... That's quite insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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