Definition of cPanel Web Hosting

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel hosting offers on the present-day website hosting marketplace are generated by a quite insubstantial business segment (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-sized business niche, which furnishes a vast number of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing exactly the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offerings on the entire web hosting marketplace furnish one and the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting prices are identical. Quite identical. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is merely a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

200k "hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly branded

The hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us come down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different hosting brand names. Suppose you are only an ordinary fellow who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web page making processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the various domain names and web pages. Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web hosting variant you can opt for? Sure there is, these days there are more than 200,000 web hosting corporations in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ different web hosting brands across the world will offer you literally the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the assortment on the present website hosting market is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is an enormous stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps met all web hosting industry demands. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Disadvantage Number One: A foolish domain name folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be ultra watchful not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to erase on the web hosting server, because 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 situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. See for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain name folder configuration 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)

Are you growing disorientated? We categorically are!

Negative Point No.2: The same email folder structure

The mail folder configuration on the web server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin chaps strongly fortify their belief in God when tackling the e-mail folders on the mail server, praying not to mess things up too harshly.

Downside Number Three: An entire absence of domain management tools

Do we have to mention the complete deficiency of a contemporary domain name manipulation tool - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois info, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a huge weakness. An unforgivable one, we would like to add...

Inconvenience No.4: Multiple login locations (minimum 2, maximum three)

What about the necessity for an additional login to avail of the billing, domain name and tech support administration software? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel hosting vendor. At times, depending on the billing transaction system (particularly conceived for cPanel solely) the cPanel hosting provider is making use of, the avid customers can end up with 2 extra login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain management tool; 2: the ticket support system), winding up with a total of three login locations (counting cPanel).

Downside Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty hosting CP sections to grasp... swiftly

cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a terrific idea to learn each of them. And you'd better grasp them swiftly... That's excessively impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel hosting providers:

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