What In Fact is cPanel Website Hosting?

For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based hosting offerings on the present-day website hosting market are generated by a quite unsubstantial business niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small business segment, which provides an immense number of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing literally the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the website hosting offers on the whole web hosting market supply exactly the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel hosting prices are similar. Quite similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/website hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is merely a single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, note that one...

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

The hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us come down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different hosting brand names. Assume you are just an ordinary person who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the website making procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and sites. Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any hosting option you can opt for? Of course there is, today there are more than 200,000 web hosting distributors out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique web hosting brand names around the world will give you the very same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, named differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the diversity on today's hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics demonstrates 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 happen! Less than one in 50...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly covered all website hosting business demands. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Point Number 1: A stupid domain folder system

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be ultra watchful not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to erase on the web hosting server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very 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 domains, please. Discover for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain folder configuration 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)
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)
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 nonplussed? We positively are!

Weak Side Number Two: The same electronic mail folder setup

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the web server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin chums strongly strengthen their belief in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the email server, praying not to mess things up too badly.

Negative Point Number Three: An absolute absence of domain manipulation tools

Do we have to mention the entire lack of a contemporary domain administration menu - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, change domains' Whois info, shield the Whois details, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a mammoth predicament. An unforgettable one, we want to add...

Negative Point No.4: Many login places (min two, maximum three)

What about the need for an additional login to use the invoicing, domain name and technical support management platform? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel hosting distributor. Now and then, based on the invoicing transaction system (particularly made for cPanel only) the cPanel hosting corporation is utilizing, the devoted clients can end up with 2 additional login places (1: the billing/domain name management GUI; 2: the trouble ticket support software solution), ending up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (including cPanel).

Negative Sign Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel areas to become familiar with... briskly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the web hosting CP. It's a fabulous idea to get acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better memorize them fast... That's way too impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel hosting vendors:

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