What Exactly is cPanel Website Hosting?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based hosting offers on today's website hosting market are furnished by a quite insubstantial marketing niche (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a kind of a small-size marketing niche, which supplies a big quantity of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing one and the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98% of the web hosting offers on the whole web hosting market furnish strictly the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel hosting price tags are alike. Quite similar. Giving those who require a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/website hosting CP choice. Thus, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed

The hosting "variety" and the hosting "offers" Google presents to us come down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are only an average guy who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the website development procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domains and websites. Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any web hosting alternative you can decide upon? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than 200,000 web hosting distributors out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different web hosting brand names around the world will give you the very same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, named differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the variety on the current web hosting market is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple math demonstrates that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a great stroke of luck. 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-based hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly satisfied all website hosting market demands. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Problem Number 1: An imbecilic domain name folder setup

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be very cautious not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to erase on the hosting server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located 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. Determine for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain folder setup 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 bewildered? We undeniably are!

Shortcoming Number 2: The same electronic mail folder structure

The email folder configuration on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin boys strongly fortify their faith in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to muck things up too irretrievably.

Downside Number 3: A sheer shortage of domain name management interfaces

Do we need to point out the entire deficiency of a contemporary domain manipulation platform - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, edit domains' Whois information, secure the Whois information, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's an immense problem. An unpardonable one, we want to point out...

Negative Sign No.4: Many login locations (min 2, max 3)

What about the need for an additional login to utilize the invoice transaction, domain and technical support administration menu? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based hosting supplier. Now and then, depending on the billing tool (especially invented for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel hosting service provider is making use of, the avid users can end up with two extra login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain administration tool; 2: the ticket support software solution), winding up with a total of three user login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Aspect No.5: 120+ website hosting CP departments to become acquainted with... quickly

cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the web hosting CP. It's a fantastic idea to become acquainted with each of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them rapidly... That's very impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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