What Indeed is cPanel Web Hosting?

For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel website hosting offerings on the present website hosting marketplace are furnished by a very unsubstantial business niche (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-scale marketing segment, which provides a vast number of different web hosting brand names, yet providing strictly the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offers on the whole website hosting market provide absolutely the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel website hosting prices are alike. Quite identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200k website hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, mark that one...

200k "website hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled

The website hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us boil down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Assume you are just a regular bloke who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the website making procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domain names and web pages. Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any web hosting option you can settle on? Sure there is, today there are more than 200k web hosting vendors out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ different web hosting brand names across the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the diversity on the present-day web hosting market is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic shows that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a colossal stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps covered all website hosting business requirements. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weakness Number 1: A laughable domain folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be ultra cautious 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). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to remove on the web hosting server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Decide for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain folder system 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 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)

Are you getting nonplussed? We clearly are!

Drawback Number 2: The same e-mail folder arrangement

The mail folder arrangement on the web server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The admin chums firmly increase their faith in God when coping with the electronic mail folders on the mail server, praying not to mess things up too severely.

Disadvantage No.3: An utter absence of domain name manipulation tools

Do we have to bring up the utter absence of a contemporary domain name management GUI - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, alter domains' Whois information, protect the Whois details, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" section at all. That's an enormous disadvantage. An unforgivable one, we would like to point out...

Drawback No.4: Many login places (minimum two, max three)

How about the demand for another login to make use of the invoicing, domain name and technical support management software platform? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel website hosting distributor. Sometimes, based on the invoicing transaction tool (particularly conceived for cPanel solely) the cPanel website hosting firm is using, the eager clients can wind up with two additional login places (1: the invoicing/domain management interface; 2: the trouble ticket support tool), winding up with a total of three user login places (counting cPanel).

Problem No.5: More than 120 web hosting Control Panel areas to pick up... quickly

cPanel offers to your attention 120+ areas inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a fine idea to memorize each and every one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them briskly... That's quite arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting companies:

As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one as well...