What is cPanel Web Hosting?

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based web hosting offers on the contemporary web hosting market are supplied by a quite inconsiderable business segment (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-size marketing niche, which supplies a vast quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing exactly the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offerings on the whole website hosting market supply the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting price tags are alike. Very much alike. Giving those who require a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/web hosting CP choice. So, there is just one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

200k "web hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet diversely named

The web hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us boil down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Imagine you are simply a regular fellow who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web site making processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domains and websites. Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web hosting variant you can pick? Sure there is, these days there are more than 200,000 web hosting corporations out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different website hosting brand names all over the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the variety on today's web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple arithmetic reveals that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is an enormous stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably answered most web hosting market demands. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Problem No.1: An imbecilic domain name folder setup

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extra watchful not to delete 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 domain names are quite simple to delete on the web hosting server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. See for yourself how good cPanel's domain name folder configuration 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 growing baffled? We unquestionably are!

Problem Number 2: The very same e-mail folder structure

The e-mail folder structure on the web server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin guys strongly enhance their belief in God when managing the e-mail folders on the email server, praying not to mess things up too severely.

Shortcoming Number 3: An entire lack of domain name administration interfaces

Do we have to cite the total absence of a modern domain management tool - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, change domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois details, alter/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a big problem. An unforgivable one, we want to point out...

Shortcoming Number Four: Numerous user login locations (min 2, max 3)

How about the need for an additional login to utilize the billing transaction, domain and tech support management user interface? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web hosting corporation. Now and then, depending on the billing system (especially created for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting company is making use of, the ardent users can wind up with two extra login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration section; 2: the ticket support software), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Aspect No.5: More than a hundred and twenty website hosting Control Panel departments to memorize... briskly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the website hosting CP. It's a wonderful idea to become familiar with each one of them. And you'd better memorize them rapidly... That's way too impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web hosting distributors:

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