What is cPanel Web Hosting?

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based hosting offers on the present website hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite insubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to yearly cash flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-size marketing segment, which supplies an immense amount of different web hosting brands, yet providing literally the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offerings on the entire website hosting market offer one and the very same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel hosting price tags are similar. Quite identical. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/website hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is simply one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...

200,000 "hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely named

The hosting "variety" and the hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us come down to just one and the very 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 familiar with (as most of us) with the site development processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domain names and web sites. Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any website hosting variant you can pick? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than 200k web hosting vendors in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique hosting brand names in the world will offer you absolutely the same cPanel CP and platform, branded in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on the present-day web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is an enormous stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably answered all hosting industry requirements. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Side Number One: A laughable domain name folder structure

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be ultra watchful not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to remove on the web hosting server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located 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. Verify for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain name folder arrangement 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 name)
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)
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 categorically are!

Disadvantage No.2: The very same electronic mail folder configuration

The electronic mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin blokes firmly increase their faith in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to muck things up too seriously.

Weakness No.3: A complete shortage of domain administration sections

Do we have to cite the sheer deficiency of a contemporary domain name management tool - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, alter domains' Whois info, shield the Whois information, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" interface at all. That's a mammoth shortcoming. An unjustifiable one, we would like to point out...

Inconvenience No.4: Many login locations (min two, maximum 3)

What about the necessity for an additional login to utilize the invoice transaction, domain and tech support management interface? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based hosting supplier. At times, on the basis of the invoicing tool (particularly devised for cPanel solely) the cPanel hosting company is making use of, the devoted users can end up with two additional logins (1: the billing/domain management user interface; 2: the trouble ticket support system), ending up with a total of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).

Problem Number 5: More than 120 web hosting CP departments to become acquainted with... briskly

cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the Control Panel. It's a glorious idea to become acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better memorize them briskly... That's quite insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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