What is cPanel Website Hosting?

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based web hosting offerings on the contemporary web hosting marketplace are provided by a very insignificant business segment (when it comes to annual capital flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-size marketing segment, which furnishes a huge amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing absolutely the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the website hosting offerings on the entire website hosting marketplace provide strictly the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web hosting price tags are alike. Very identical. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service practically no other hosting platform/Control Panel choice. Thus, there is only one single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "web hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled

The web hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google shows to us come down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just a normal chap who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the site development processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and sites. Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web hosting alternative you can pick? Sure there is, these days there are more than 200,000 web hosting service providers out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique web hosting brand names in the world will offer you literally the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the diversity on the contemporary web hosting market is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math shows that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a colossal strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps answered all website hosting industry requirements. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weak Side No.1: A laughable domain folder setup

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be very careful not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to delete on the web server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Decide for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain name folder system 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 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 perplexed? We undeniably are!

Inconvenience Number Two: The very same email folder configuration

The electronic mail folder configuration on the web server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chaps strongly strengthen their faith in God when dealing with the email folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too severely.

Negative Sign No.3: An absolute lack of domain management sections

Do we need to mention the utter absence of a contemporary domain management interface - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domain names' Whois details, protect the Whois info, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's an immense downside. An unforgettable one, we want to add...

Inconvenience Number 4: Multiple login locations (minimum 2, maximum three)

What about the demand for another login to make use of the billing transaction, domain and tech support management system? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web hosting provider. At times, depending on the billing transaction platform (especially created for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting vendor is utilizing, the avid customers can wind up with 2 additional login places (1: the billing/domain administration software solution; 2: the trouble ticket support tool), ending up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).

Weak Side No.5: 120+ web hosting CP areas to get to know... quickly

cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the hosting Control Panel. It's a terrific idea to become familiar with each one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them briskly... That's excessively impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, 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 as well...