What In Fact is cPanel Web Hosting?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based website hosting offers on the present-day website hosting marketplace are provided by a very insubstantial marketing segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-sized business segment, which supplies a huge number of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing the very same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the website hosting offers on the whole website hosting marketplace offer exactly the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting price tags are identical. Quite identical. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...

200,000 "website hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed

The website hosting "variety" and the hosting "offerings" Google presents to us boil down to just one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are simply a regular chap who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the site creation procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domains and sites. Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any website hosting option you can settle on? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than 200k website hosting service providers out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ different web hosting brands across the world will give you literally the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the assortment on the present-day web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple arithmetic reveals that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a huge stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly satisfied all website hosting business preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Aspect No.1: A dumb domain name folder arrangement

If you have two or more domains, however, be very watchful not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to delete on the web server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very 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 try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Decide for yourself how good cPanel's domain name folder structure 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)
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 name)

Are you becoming baffled? We doubtlessly are!

Weak Side Number Two: The same mail folder structure

The e-mail folder structure on the web hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin chums firmly strengthen their belief in God when managing the e-mail folders on the email server, praying not to muck things up too badly.

Inconvenience Number 3: A thorough lack of domain manipulation sections

Do we have to cite the complete lack of a contemporary domain name management menu - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, edit domain names' Whois details, protect the Whois info, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" menu at all. That's a colossal problem. An unpardonable one, we wish to add...

Negative Side Number 4: Multiple login places (minimum two, maximum 3)

How about the demand for an additional login to avail of the invoice transaction, domain and tech support administration software? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based website hosting distributor. At times, on the basis of the invoicing transaction platform (principally designed for cPanel solely) the cPanel website hosting service provider is using, the earnest users can wind up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration system; 2: the trouble ticket support software platform), ending up with an aggregate of three user login locations (including cPanel).

Weakness Number Five: More than 120 web hosting CP menus to get familiar with... rapidly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 sections inside the website hosting CP. It's a marvelous idea to pick up each and every one of them. And you'd better memorize them rapidly... That's extremely impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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