What is cPanel Hosting?

For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel website hosting offers on today's website hosting market are provided by a quite inconsiderable business segment (when it comes to yearly money flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small business niche, which supplies an immense amount of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying exactly the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offers on the entire web hosting market offer literally the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel website hosting price tags are identical. Very similar. Giving those who need a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/website hosting CP option. Thus, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...

Two hundred thousand "website hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet diversely named

The website hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us boil down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Assume you are merely an ordinary bloke who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the web site development procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the various domain names and websites. Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web hosting alternative you can pick? Sure there is, now there are more than 200k website hosting companies out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different web hosting brand names across the world will offer you exactly the same cPanel hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the diversity on the present hosting market is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple math demonstrates that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is an enormous stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps met most web hosting industry preconditions. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Disadvantage Number One: A dumb domain folder structure

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be very attentive not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to delete on the web hosting server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name 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. Decide for yourself how great cPanel's domain folder structure 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 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 name)
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 puzzled? We definitely are!

Weakness Number Two: The same electronic mail folder structure

The e-mail folder arrangement on the web server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chaps firmly increase their belief in God when coping with the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to bungle things up too fatally.

Negative Aspect Number 3: A sheer deficiency of domain name manipulation user interfaces

Do we have to point out the utter deficiency of a modern domain manipulation tool - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, change domain names' Whois details, shield the Whois information, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a mammoth disadvantage. An unforgettable one, we want to point out...

Negative Point No.4: Numerous user login locations (min two, max three)

What about the demand for an additional login to avail of the invoice transaction, domain name and tech support administration user interface? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based website hosting vendor. At times, on the basis of the invoicing transaction system (particularly meant for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel website hosting firm is utilizing, the earnest clients can wind up with two extra login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain management GUI; 2: the trouble ticket support software solution), winding up with a total of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).

Problem Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting CP sections to learn... rapidly

cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the web hosting CP. It's a glorious idea to become familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better learn them fast... That's inordinately insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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