What In Fact is cPanel Hosting?

For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel web hosting offers on the present-day web hosting marketplace are provided by a quite inconsiderable marketing niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-scale business segment, which generates a vast number of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing one and the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the hosting offers on the entire hosting market supply one and the very same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting price tags are identical. Quite similar. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/web hosting CP choice. Thus, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

200k "web hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet differently named

The web hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offerings" Google shows to us come down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are merely a normal person who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the site creation processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the different domains and sites. Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any hosting option you can settle on? Of course there is, these days there are more than two hundred thousand hosting distributors out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand unique hosting brand names in the world will give you exactly the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the assortment on the contemporary website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a big stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably answered all website hosting industry prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weak Point Number 1: A foolish domain folder setup

If you have two or more domain names, though, be very attentive not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to 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 web server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known 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. Examine for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain folder structure 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)
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 perplexed? We positively are!

Drawback No.2: The very same mail folder structure

The email folder configuration on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin boys strongly reinforce their belief in God when tackling the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to botch things up too severely.

Weak Side No.3: A complete shortage of domain name manipulation sections

Do we need to mention the total lack of a modern domain manipulation GUI - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, alter domains' Whois info, protect the Whois info, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a big weakness. An unforgivable one, we want to add...

Negative Aspect No.4: Numerous login locations (min 2, max 3)

How about the need for an additional login to avail of the invoicing transaction, domain name and technical support management software? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web hosting company. Now and then, on the basis of the invoice transaction tool (especially built for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting vendor is using, the devoted clients can wind up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain administration system; 2: the ticket support menu), ending up with an aggregate of three login places (including cPanel).

Negative Point Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel sections to become acquainted with... quickly

cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the Control Panel. It's a terrific idea to become familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them promptly... That's very arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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