What Indeed is cPanel Hosting?

For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel web hosting offerings on the present website hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite insignificant business niche (as far as annual money flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-scale business segment, which generates a great number of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying precisely the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the hosting offers on the whole web hosting market furnish the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting price tags are similar. Very identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is just a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

200,000 "web hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly branded

The web hosting "diversity" and the website 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. Imagine you are only a regular person who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the website creation processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domain names and online portals. Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web hosting option you can select? Sure there is, today there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting corporations out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different hosting brand names all over the world will give you the very same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, dubbed differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on the present web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple arithmetic shows that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a mammoth stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly met most web hosting market prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Downside Number One: A ludicrous domain name folder structure

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be ultra watchful not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to delete on the hosting server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Observe for yourself how terrific 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)
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 confused? We unquestionably are!

Negative Sign Number 2: The very same e-mail folder structure

The mail folder configuration on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin guys firmly strengthen their belief in God when coping with the email folders on the mail server, praying not to botch things up too gravely.

Weak Point No.3: An utter deficiency of domain name administration tools

Do we need to mention the absolute shortage of a modern domain name management tool - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domains' Whois information, shield the Whois information, change/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a great problem. An unjustifiable one, we would like to add...

Inconvenience Number 4: Many login places (min 2, maximum three)

How about the need for an additional login to access the billing transaction, domain name and technical support management user interface? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web hosting supplier. Occasionally, on the basis of the invoice transaction platform (principally tailored for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting firm is availing of, the enthusiastic users can wind up with 2 additional login places (1: the billing/domain administration section; 2: the ticket support user interface), ending up with a total of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).

Weakness No.5: More than 120 web hosting CP departments to learn... fast

cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the website hosting CP. It's a marvelous idea to learn each of them. And you'd better grasp them swiftly... That's way too arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web hosting firms:

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