What is cPanel Web Hosting?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based website hosting offerings on the present-day website hosting marketplace are supplied by a very inconsiderable marketing niche (when it comes to annual cash flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small marketing segment, which generates an enormous amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying the very same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offerings on the entire website hosting market provide the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting prices are similar. Quite identical. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/CP choice. Thus, there is simply one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

200k "website hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely named

The website hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us boil down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are merely an ordinary guy who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the web site making procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domains and online portals. Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any hosting option you can opt for? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting distributors out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand different web hosting brands around the world will offer you absolutely the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on the present-day website hosting market is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a mammoth strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably answered all website hosting market demands. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weak Point Number One: A dumb domain folder system

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be very watchful not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains 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 well known 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 try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Decide for yourself how great cPanel's domain 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 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)
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)

Are you getting disorientated? We undoubtedly are!

Negative Side Number 2: The very same electronic mail folder system

The email folder arrangement on the server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin chaps firmly strengthen their belief in God when managing the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to mess things up too gravely.

Inconvenience No.3: A sheer deficiency of domain name management options

Do we need to point out the entire deficiency of a modern domain name manipulation GUI - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois info, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" interface at all. That's a great shortcoming. An unpardonable one, we want to add...

Weak Point Number Four: Many login places (minimum 2, maximum 3)

What about the demand for an additional login to utilize the invoicing, domain and technical support administration software solution? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel website hosting service provider. Occasionally, based on the billing system (particularly created for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel website hosting distributor is utilizing, the avid clients can end up with 2 extra login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain administration menu; 2: the ticket support section), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (including cPanel).

Downside Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty hosting Control Panel departments to become familiar with... quickly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the website hosting CP. It's an excellent idea to memorize each of them. And you'd better pick them up briskly... That's very impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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