What is cPanel Website Hosting?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel hosting offerings on today's web hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite unsubstantial business segment (when it comes to annual money flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a kind of a small-sized marketing niche, which generates a great quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing one and the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offerings on the whole web hosting market furnish precisely the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting price tags are identical. Very similar. Giving those who need a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/web hosting CP alternative. So, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

Two hundred thousand "hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded

The hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google shows to us boil down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are merely a regular fellow who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the site creation processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domains and sites. Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any website hosting variant you can choose? Of course there is, now there are more than 200k web hosting corporations in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique website hosting brand names worldwide will give you exactly the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the diversity on the present web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math shows that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a big strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

The pros and cons of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably satisfied all web hosting business preconditions. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Shortcoming No.1: A dumb domain name folder arrangement

If you have two or more domain names, though, be extra watchful not to erase fully 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 domain names are very easy to remove on the server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located 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. Verify for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain folder setup 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 name)
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 getting nonplussed? We doubtlessly are!

Inconvenience Number 2: The same mail folder setup

The e-mail folder structure on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin chaps firmly fortify their faith in God when dealing with the electronic mail folders on the mail server, praying not to muck things up too harshly.

Weak Side No.3: A total shortage of domain administration tools

Do we have to point out the utter absence of a contemporary domain management tool - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, change domains' Whois information, secure the Whois information, alter/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "modern" tool at all. That's a big predicament. An unforgettable one, we would like to add...

Negative Point Number 4: Multiple user login places (minimum two, max three)

How about the demand for an additional login to avail of the billing, domain name and technical support management interface? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel hosting supplier. Now and then, on the basis of the invoice transaction tool (especially made for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel hosting firm is using, the keen users can end up with 2 extra login places (1: the billing/domain management interface; 2: the trouble ticket support system), ending up with a total of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).

Negative Side Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty website hosting CP sections to grasp... promptly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the hosting CP. It's a marvelous idea to learn each and every one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them briskly... That's way too impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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