What is cPanel Hosting?

For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based web hosting offerings on the current web hosting marketplace are provided by a very insignificant marketing segment (as far as annual money flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small marketing segment, which furnishes a big amount of different web hosting brands, yet offering literally the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offerings on the entire web hosting marketplace supply strictly the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting prices are identical. Quite similar. Giving those who require a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/web hosting CP option. Thus, there is only a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "web hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled

The web hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us boil down to just one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different hosting brand names. Imagine you are simply an ordinary guy who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the site creation procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domain names and sites. Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any website hosting variant you can opt for? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting suppliers out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different website hosting brands worldwide will offer you absolutely the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the variety on the current website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is an immense stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly satisfied most website hosting market preconditions. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weak Point Number 1: A stupid domain folder arrangement

If you have two or more domains, though, be very watchful not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to remove on the server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Decide for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain name folder arrangement is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is situated)
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 getting confused? We undeniably are!

Weakness Number Two: The very same e-mail folder system

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chaps firmly reinforce their belief in God when managing the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to botch things up too fatally.

Inconvenience Number Three: A complete absence of domain name administration GUIs

Do we need to point out the absolute absence of a contemporary domain name management platform - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois details, edit/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "modern" section at all. That's a colossal drawback. An inexcusable one, we want to add...

Inconvenience Number Four: Multiple user login locations (min 2, max 3)

What about the need for an extra login to avail of the invoice transaction, domain name and technical support administration software platform? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web hosting supplier. Sometimes, based on the billing system (particularly conceived for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting corporation is utilizing, the earnest clients can end up with two additional logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name management interface; 2: the ticket support platform), winding up with a total of three user login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Point Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting CP sections to pick up... promptly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a great idea to memorize each and every one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them rapidly... That's very insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web hosting companies:

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