What In Fact is cPanel Web Hosting?

For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel website hosting offerings on the contemporary website hosting market are provided by a very insubstantial business niche (when it comes to yearly cash flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-scale business niche, which provides a huge quantity of different web hosting brands, yet offering one and the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offers on the whole website hosting marketplace supply one and the very same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting prices are similar. Very identical. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is only one fact: out of more than 200k web hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, note that one...

200,000 "website hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly branded

The website hosting "variety" and the hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us boil down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are simply a normal guy who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the website development processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domains and web portals. Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web hosting variant you can pick? Of course there is, right now there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting corporations in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different hosting brand names around the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on the present-day website hosting market is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple mathematics shows that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a big strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably satisfied all web hosting business demands. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Inconvenience No.1: An imbecilic domain name folder setup

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extremely careful not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to delete on the web server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Discover for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain name 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 name)

Are you getting confused? We certainly are!

Weak Point No.2: The very same mail folder configuration

The electronic mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin chums firmly enhance their faith in God when tackling the email folders on the email server, praying not to screw things up too harshly.

Drawback No.3: A total shortage of domain name manipulation sections

Do we need to point out the absolute absence of a contemporary domain name manipulation interface - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, change domain names' Whois details, shield the Whois information, edit/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not have such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a major downside. An unforgivable one, we wish to point out...

Downside No.4: Multiple user login places (min two, max 3)

How about the need for an additional login to access the invoice transaction, domain and tech support administration tool? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel website hosting distributor. Sometimes, on the basis of the billing transaction system (particularly tailored for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel website hosting service provider is availing of, the enthusiastic users can wind up with two additional login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain management platform; 2: the ticket support tool), ending up with a total of 3 login places (including cPanel).

Weak Side Number 5: More than 120 Control Panel areas to become familiar with... swiftly

cPanel presents for your consideration 120+ menus inside the website hosting CP. It's a terrific idea to get familiar with each one of them. And you'd better grasp them rapidly... That's quite arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based website hosting companies:

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