What Actually is cPanel Website Hosting?

For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based hosting offers on the contemporary website hosting marketplace are generated by a very inconsiderable marketing niche (when it comes to yearly money flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-sized marketing segment, which generates an enormous number of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing precisely the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offers on the whole website hosting market supply exactly the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting prices are alike. Quite identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/hosting CP option. So, there is just a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named

The hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us come down to just one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different hosting brand names. Assume you are simply a normal chap who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the site making procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and web sites. Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any website hosting variant you can select? Sure there is, now there are more than 200,000 web hosting firms in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique web hosting brands in the world will give you exactly the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on the present-day hosting marketplace is... Period.

The hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple arithmetic shows that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a great stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps fulfilled all web hosting market requirements. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weak Side No.1: A moronic domain name folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extra watchful not to remove entirely 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 domain names are very easy to delete on the web hosting server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain folder arrangement 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)
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 becoming confused? We positively are!

Weak Point Number 2: The very same email folder structure

The email folder arrangement on the hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin chaps firmly reinforce their faith in God when coping with the mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to mess things up too badly.

Negative Aspect Number 3: A total absence of domain name manipulation GUIs

Do we have to refer to the utter shortage of a contemporary domain name manipulation GUI - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domains' Whois details, protect the Whois details, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a considerable weakness. An inexcusable one, we wish to add...

Drawback Number 4: Many login locations (minimum two, maximum three)

What about the demand for another login to utilize the invoicing, domain name and tech support administration system? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel hosting firm. Now and then, based on the invoicing tool (principally made for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel hosting corporation is utilizing, the devoted customers can wind up with 2 extra logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration user interface; 2: the ticket support software), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login places (counting cPanel).

Problem No.5: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel departments to get familiar with... briskly

cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a fantastic idea to become familiar with each one of them. And you'd better memorize them promptly... That's excessively arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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