What Exactly is cPanel Website Hosting?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based hosting offers on the current hosting marketplace are generated by a quite unsubstantial marketing niche (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-scale business niche, which supplies a great quantity of different web hosting brands, yet providing precisely the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98% of the web hosting offerings on the entire web hosting market supply precisely the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel hosting price tags are alike. Very identical. Giving those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is merely one 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 companies", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named

The hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us come down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Suppose you are simply an average guy who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web page creation processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and websites. Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any web hosting variant you can decide upon? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than 200,000 web hosting providers out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique hosting brand names all over the world will give you strictly the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how big the diversity on the present-day web hosting market is... Period.

The hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple mathematics reveals that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is an enormous strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than one in 50...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably fulfilled all web hosting business prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Point Number One: A stupid domain name folder arrangement

If you have two or more domains, though, be very attentive not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to delete on the hosting server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how fantastic 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 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)
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 growing nonplussed? We categorically are!

Weakness Number Two: The same electronic mail folder setup

The mail folder arrangement on the web server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin boys firmly fortify their faith in God when coping with the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to botch things up too gravely.

Downside Number 3: A sheer deficiency of domain management options

Do we need to cite the total absence of a contemporary domain management platform - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, alter domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois details, change/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" tool at all. That's a huge shortcoming. An unpardonable one, we want to add...

Weak Point Number 4: Numerous user login locations (min 2, maximum three)

How about the need for an additional login to use the invoicing, domain name and technical support management software? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based hosting service provider. At times, on the basis of the billing platform (principally conceived for cPanel solely) the cPanel hosting supplier is availing of, the ardent customers can end up with 2 additional login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain name management menu; 2: the trouble ticket support software solution), winding up with a total of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).

Disadvantage No.5: 120+ website hosting CP areas to get to know... briskly

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ departments inside the website hosting CP. It's a fabulous idea to learn each and every one of them. And you'd better get to know them rapidly... That's way too arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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