What Exactly is cPanel Hosting?

For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel website hosting offerings on the current web hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite inconsiderable marketing niche (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-scale business niche, which furnishes a vast quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet offering the very same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offerings on the entire web hosting market offer the very same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel website hosting price tags are similar. Quite identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is just one fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mind that one...

200,000 "website hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded

The website hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us come down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are simply a normal chap who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web page making processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domain names and web portals. Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web hosting variant you can select? Sure there is, these days there are more than 200k web hosting providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique hosting brand names worldwide will give you literally the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, named differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the variety on the contemporary website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic shows that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a big stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

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

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably answered most website hosting business prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Aspect No.1: A ludicrous domain name folder system

If you have two or more domain names, however, be extremely careful not to erase completely 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 easy to delete on the server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated 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. Check for yourself how great cPanel's domain folder structure 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 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 growing perplexed? We surely are!

Predicament No.2: The very same e-mail folder structure

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin chaps strongly strengthen their belief in God when dealing with the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to mess things up too fatally.

Inconvenience Number Three: An absolute deficiency of domain name administration sections

Do we have to point out the absolute lack of a contemporary domain manipulation user interface - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, alter domain names' Whois information, protect the Whois information, alter/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" menu at all. That's a huge shortcoming. An unforgivable one, we wish to add...

Negative Point No.4: Multiple user login locations (minimum 2, maximum three)

What about the necessity for another login to make use of the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support administration section? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based website hosting vendor. Occasionally, depending on the invoicing platform (principally tailored for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel website hosting company is utilizing, the enthusiastic clients can end up with 2 additional logins (1: the invoicing/domain management platform; 2: the ticket support menu), winding up with a total of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).

Weakness Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel departments to get acquainted with... rapidly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a great idea to get acquainted with each of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them promptly... That's way too arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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