What Exactly is cPanel Website Hosting?

For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel web hosting offers on the present web hosting market are provided by a very inconsiderable business niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-sized marketing niche, which provides a great amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing strictly the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the website hosting offers on the whole website hosting market offer one and the very same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web hosting prices are identical. Very identical. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/web hosting CP option. So, there is simply one single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...

200k "web hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed

The web hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us come down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Imagine you are merely a normal fellow who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web site making procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domain names and online portals. Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web hosting variant you can choose? Of course there is, right now there are more than 200k website hosting distributors out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different web hosting brand names worldwide will give you literally the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the variety on the current website hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a big stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will occur! Less than one in 50...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly covered most web hosting business prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Drawback Number 1: A laughable domain name folder structure

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extremely cautious not to remove completely 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 domains are quite simple to erase on the hosting server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain folder structure 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)

Are you getting confused? We certainly are!

Weak Point Number Two: The same e-mail folder system

The email folder configuration on the web hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin blokes firmly enhance their belief in God when tackling the e-mail folders on the mail server, praying not to screw things up too gravely.

Shortcoming Number 3: A complete deficiency of domain management user interfaces

Do we need to mention the total absence of a modern domain name manipulation platform - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domain names' Whois details, shield the Whois details, change/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" section at all. That's an enormous inconvenience. An unpardonable one, we wish to add...

Predicament Number Four: Multiple user login locations (min 2, maximum 3)

How about the need for another login to make use of the invoicing transaction, domain and technical support management section? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web hosting vendor. Sometimes, based on the billing transaction platform (principally created for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting provider is availing of, the ardent customers can end up with two extra login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management system; 2: the trouble ticket support software solution), winding up with a total of 3 login places (counting cPanel).

Inconvenience No.5: 120+ web hosting CP departments to pick up... rapidly

cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a fine idea to get acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better memorize them rapidly... That's inordinately impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web hosting vendors:

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