What Exactly is cPanel Web Hosting?

For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel web hosting offerings on the contemporary website hosting market are supplied by a quite inconsiderable business niche (when it comes to annual cash flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-sized business niche, which supplies a vast amount of different web hosting brands, yet supplying one and the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offers on the entire hosting market offer the very same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting prices are alike. Quite similar. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/website hosting CP choice. Thus, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

200,000 "web hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed

The web hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offers" Google shows to us come down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Imagine you are just an average bloke who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the website making procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the various domain names and websites. Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web hosting option you can select? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than 200,000 web hosting firms out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique website hosting brand names around the world will give you literally the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the diversity on the contemporary hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic shows that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is an enormous stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

The pros and cons of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps satisfied most web hosting market demands. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Problem Number 1: A moronic domain name folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extra careful not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent 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 located into the root folder of the default domain, 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 attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain name folder arrangement 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 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)
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 growing perplexed? We undeniably are!

Negative Point No.2: The same e-mail folder configuration

The mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin guys strongly increase their faith in God when dealing with the mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to screw things up too gravely.

Weak Point Number 3: A sheer lack of domain name manipulation user interfaces

Do we have to mention the entire absence of a contemporary domain administration menu - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, edit domains' Whois information, secure the Whois information, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" tool at all. That's a gigantic predicament. An unforgivable one, we want to add...

Negative Point Number 4: Multiple login places (min 2, max 3)

How about the necessity for another login to use the invoicing transaction, domain name and technical support administration software platform? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web hosting corporation. Occasionally, on the basis of the billing transaction tool (principally meant for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting supplier is making use of, the eager customers can end up with 2 extra logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name management system; 2: the ticket support interface), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login places (including cPanel).

Weak Side No.5: More than one hundred and twenty hosting Control Panel menus to get to know... quickly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the website hosting CP. It's a superb idea to get familiar with each one of them. And you'd better get to know them briskly... That's way too arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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