What is cPanel Hosting?

For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel website hosting offers on the present-day web hosting marketplace are generated by a very inconsiderable marketing segment (when it comes to annual cash flow) called hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-scale business niche, which furnishes an immense quantity of different web hosting brands, yet providing literally the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offerings on the whole web hosting marketplace furnish the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel website hosting price tags are similar. Quite similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is only one fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, mark that one...

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

The website hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us come down to just one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are only an average guy who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web site making processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domain names and web portals. Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web hosting variant you can select? Of course there is, as of now there are more than 200,000 web hosting firms in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand different hosting brands around the world will offer you the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the diversity on the present-day hosting market is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple math shows that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a gigantic stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably satisfied most web hosting business requirements. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Downside No.1: A moronic domain name folder arrangement

If you have two or more domains, however, be extra cautious not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to delete on the server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous 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. Observe for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain name folder setup 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)
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 growing puzzled? We doubtlessly are!

Weakness Number Two: The same electronic mail folder structure

The mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys strongly increase their belief in God when coping with the e-mail folders on the mail server, praying not to mess things up too seriously.

Negative Aspect Number 3: An absolute lack of domain administration options

Do we have to cite the complete shortage of a contemporary domain name management interface - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domains' Whois info, secure the Whois information, alter/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a great disadvantage. An unjustifiable one, we wish to point out...

Negative Point No.4: Many login places (min 2, max three)

How about the necessity for an extra login to avail of the billing transaction, domain name and tech support administration software solution? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based website hosting corporation. Occasionally, depending on the invoicing transaction system (particularly conceived for cPanel solely) the cPanel website hosting firm is using, the eager clients can wind up with two extra login places (1: the billing/domain administration software solution; 2: the ticket support software solution), winding up with a total of three user login places (counting cPanel).

Weak Point Number Five: 120+ hosting Control Panel departments to become acquainted with... promptly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the website hosting CP. It's an excellent idea to get familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better memorize them fast... That's excessively insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting suppliers:

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