What In Fact is cPanel Hosting?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based website hosting offerings on the present hosting market are supplied by a very inconsiderable business niche (as far as annual money flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-sized marketing niche, which furnishes an immense number of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying exactly the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offers on the entire web hosting market supply strictly the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting price tags are identical. Very identical. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel option. So, there is merely one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

200k "website hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled

The website hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us boil down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are simply an ordinary bloke who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web page making processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the different domain names and online portals. Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web hosting variant you can choose? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than 200,000 web hosting providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique website hosting brands worldwide will offer you literally the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the variety on today's web hosting market is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple mathematics reveals that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a huge strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than one in 50...

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

Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably fulfilled all website hosting business prerequisites. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Predicament Number One: A stupid domain name folder structure

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extra attentive not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to remove on the web hosting server, since 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 is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain name folder configuration 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)
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 name)

Are you becoming bewildered? We undeniably are!

Disadvantage No.2: The same email folder system

The e-mail folder structure on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin guys strongly fortify their belief in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the email server, hoping not to mess things up too severely.

Negative Aspect Number Three: An entire absence of domain administration user interfaces

Do we have to point out the complete lack of a modern domain administration platform - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, alter domains' Whois information, shield the Whois information, alter/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not supply such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a big weakness. An unforgivable one, we want to point out...

Downside No.4: Numerous user login places (min 2, max 3)

How about the necessity for an extra login to utilize the invoicing, domain name and tech support management system? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel website hosting provider. Occasionally, based on the invoicing tool (especially meant for cPanel solely) the cPanel website hosting vendor is using, the earnest clients can wind up with 2 additional login locations (1: the invoicing/domain name management section; 2: the trouble ticket support GUI), ending up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).

Weak Side Number 5: 120+ web hosting Control Panel menus to memorize... promptly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the website hosting CP. It's an excellent idea to grasp each of them. And you'd better grasp them fast... That's extremely arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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