What Exactly is cPanel Website Hosting?

For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based hosting offers on the present website hosting marketplace are provided by a very inconsiderable marketing segment (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small marketing niche, which furnishes a huge quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet offering one and the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98% of the website hosting offers on the whole hosting marketplace supply the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting price tags are similar. Quite similar. Giving those who require a top web hosting service practically no other hosting platform/web hosting CP option. So, there is just one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...

200,000 "hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled

The hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us come down to just one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are just a normal guy who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web site creation procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domain names and web portals. Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any web hosting alternative you can choose? Sure there is, now there are more than 200,000 web hosting companies out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique web hosting brands worldwide will give you absolutely the same cPanel Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the variety on the contemporary web hosting market is... Period.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a colossal stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably fulfilled most website hosting business preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weak Point Number One: A moronic domain name folder arrangement

If you have two or more domain names, though, be extremely careful not to erase fully 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). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to delete on the web hosting server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Verify for yourself how good cPanel's domain folder setup 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)
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 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)

Are you becoming bewildered? We unquestionably are!

Weakness Number 2: The very same electronic mail folder system

The e-mail folder arrangement on the server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Making the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chaps strongly reinforce their faith in God when tackling the electronic mail folders on the mail server, praying not to muck things up too harshly.

Weak Point Number Three: A sheer absence of domain management menus

Do we have to bring up the utter lack of a contemporary domain manipulation platform - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domains' Whois details, protect the Whois information, change/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not involve such a "modern" GUI at all. That's an enormous weakness. An unjustifiable one, we want to point out...

Disadvantage Number 4: Numerous user login locations (min two, maximum 3)

How about the need for an additional login to avail of the invoicing, domain name and tech support management menu? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based hosting firm. Occasionally, depending on the invoicing system (particularly invented for cPanel only) the cPanel hosting distributor is availing of, the ardent users can wind up with two additional logins (1: the invoicing/domain name administration GUI; 2: the trouble ticket support software solution), ending up with a total of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).

Drawback Number 5: 120+ web hosting CP areas to get familiar with... swiftly

cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a terrific idea to memorize each and every one of them. And you'd better memorize them rapidly... That's excessively arrogant 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? Mind that one as well...