What is cPanel Website Hosting?

For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel hosting offers on today's web hosting marketplace are provided by a quite inconsiderable marketing niche (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a sort of a small-size business niche, which provides a huge quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering precisely the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offerings on the entire web hosting marketplace supply strictly the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel hosting price tags are identical. Quite identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other hosting platform/website hosting CP choice. Thus, there is simply one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, note that one...

200,000 "hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named

The hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us boil down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Assume you are simply an average bloke who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the web page development procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and websites. Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any website hosting alternative you can decide upon? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than 200k website hosting distributors out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand unique web hosting brand names all over the world will offer you literally the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, named differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the assortment on the current website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic reveals that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is an enormous stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably fulfilled all website hosting industry prerequisites. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Problem No.1: An imbecilic domain folder configuration

If you have two or more domains, however, be extra careful not to erase entirely 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 name). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to erase on the server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular 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 try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Decide for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain name folder system 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 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)
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 becoming puzzled? We undoubtedly are!

Shortcoming Number Two: The very same mail folder structure

The e-mail folder arrangement on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin guys strongly strengthen their belief in God when managing the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to botch things up too irreparably.

Weak Point Number Three: An utter deficiency of domain name management options

Do we need to refer to the total absence of a modern domain name management interface - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois details, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a huge disadvantage. An unjustifiable one, we want to add...

Weak Side Number 4: Multiple user login places (min two, max three)

What about the demand for an extra login to utilize the billing, domain and technical support administration platform? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based hosting firm. Occasionally, depending on the invoicing transaction system (particularly conceived for cPanel only) the cPanel hosting firm is availing of, the avid clients can end up with 2 extra logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration platform; 2: the trouble ticket support user interface), winding up with an aggregate of three user login places (including cPanel).

Weakness No.5: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting CP departments to memorize... briskly

cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a marvelous idea to grasp each and every one of them. And you'd better learn them quickly... That's extremely impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel hosting corporations:

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