What In Fact is cPanel Website Hosting?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based website hosting offerings on the present website hosting marketplace are furnished by a very inconsiderable business segment (when it comes to annual money flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small business niche, which generates a big quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing strictly the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offerings on the entire web hosting market provide literally the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting price tags are identical. Very much alike. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel option. So, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mind that one...

200,000 "website hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled

The website hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google shows to us come down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Assume you are only a regular guy who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the web site creation processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domain names and sites. Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any web hosting option you can choose? Of course there is, these days there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting companies out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique hosting brands worldwide will offer you precisely the same cPanel CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the assortment on the present-day hosting market is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a big stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The pros and cons of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably fulfilled most web hosting market requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Aspect Number One: A laughable domain name folder system

If you have two or more domains, however, be very cautious not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to erase on the server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain folder structure 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)
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 becoming confused? We categorically are!

Downside Number 2: The very same mail folder arrangement

The mail folder structure on the server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chums strongly reinforce their belief in God when dealing with the mail folders on the email server, praying not to muck things up too harshly.

Shortcoming Number 3: A sheer deficiency of domain name management tools

Do we have to refer to the utter shortage of a modern domain management user interface - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, change domains' Whois information, protect the Whois info, change/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a big weakness. An unforgettable one, we want to add...

Predicament Number 4: Numerous login places (min two, maximum 3)

What about the necessity for an additional login to make use of the billing transaction, domain and technical support management GUI? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based website hosting provider. Occasionally, on the basis of the billing transaction platform (particularly intended for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel website hosting vendor is using, the devoted users can end up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain management system; 2: the ticket support software), ending up with an aggregate of three login places (including cPanel).

Weakness Number Five: 120+ website hosting CP areas to learn... briskly

cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the web hosting CP. It's a remarkable idea to memorize each of them. And you'd better memorize them fast... That's quite arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one as well...