What Actually is cPanel Website Hosting?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel web hosting offerings on the current hosting market are provided by a quite inconsiderable marketing niche (as far as annual money flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a kind of a small marketing segment, which generates a vast quantity of different web hosting brands, yet offering one and the same thing: chiefly 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 offers on the entire website hosting market provide the very same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web hosting price tags are similar. Very much alike. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/web hosting CP choice. Thus, there is only one single fact: out of more than 200k website hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, remark that one...

Two hundred thousand "web hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded

The web hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us come down to just one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Suppose you are simply a normal guy who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the website development processes and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and websites. Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web hosting alternative you can select? Of course there is, now there are more than 200,000 web hosting firms out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand different web hosting brands in the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the assortment on the present-day web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a colossal stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps answered all website hosting industry demands. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Point Number 1: A stupid domain name folder setup

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extra watchful not to delete entirely 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 simple to remove on the hosting server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Discover for yourself how great cPanel's domain folder arrangement 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 name)
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 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 growing perplexed? We absolutely are!

Weak Side Number Two: The same email folder arrangement

The e-mail folder structure on the web hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly reinforce their faith in God when tackling the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to screw things up too seriously.

Negative Point Number Three: An absolute absence of domain manipulation GUIs

Do we have to bring up the sheer lack of a contemporary domain administration GUI - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, alter domains' Whois info, shield the Whois info, change/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a considerable inconvenience. An inexcusable one, we would like to add...

Problem Number Four: Many login places (min two, max three)

How about the demand for an additional login to access the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support administration menu? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web hosting company. Sometimes, depending on the invoicing tool (especially intended for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting firm is utilizing, the eager users can end up with two additional login places (1: the invoicing/domain management software; 2: the trouble ticket support system), ending up with a total of three login locations (including cPanel).

Inconvenience Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty CP sections to memorize... swiftly

cPanel presents to your attention 120+ menus inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a superb idea to learn each one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them briskly... That's excessively arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web hosting vendors:

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